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10.11 Sunday BTC morning outlook
Yesterday, as expected, BTC continued its weekend weakness and kept fluctuating nonstop, with a total daily range of around 600 points.
So far today, it is still fluctuating narrowly around the 830 level. Weekend market liquidity is weak, and neither bulls nor bears are willing to launch an attack, leaving the market in a grinding sideways state.
The 4-hour chart shows this more clearly: the Bollinger Bands are narrowing and compressing, while the price has remained under pressure below the middle band for an extended period. The short-term EMA moving averages have flattened and converged, upward momentum continues to weaken, the MACD red bars are steadily shrinking, and the bulls lack sufficient follow-through.
Maintain a short bias in operations, looking to short around 835, targeting 826-818, and 803 if that level breaks$BTC $ETH $ZEC #以太坊三季度涨超71% #BTC回调触及81000美元
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HengshiLonelyHeartPlus
2026-10-11 01:10
#ETH
🪙 Coin: ETH LONG (20 leverage cross)
💳 Entries: 2505 cmp
🎯 Target 1: 2530
🎯 Target 2: 2600
🎯 Target 3: 2700
🎯 Target 4: 2850
🎯 Target 5: 3000
🎯 Target 6: 3100
🛑 Stop loss: 1 day candle close below 2350
DCA: 2370 (1% of margin)
📝 Notes: Swing trade. leave space to DCA 🔒 0.5% for entry, 1% for DCA
🧪 New position
🪙 Coin: ETH LONG (20x cross leverage)
💳 Entry price: 2505 current market price (CMP)
🎯 Target 1: 2530
🎯 Target 2: 2600
🎯 Target 3: 2700
🎯 Target 4: 2850
🎯 Target 5: 3000
🎯 Target 6: 3100
🛑 Stop loss: daily candle closes below 2350
DCA: 2370 (1% of margin)
📝 Notes: Swing trade. Leave room for DCA 🔒 Use 0.5% for entry and 1% for DCA
❤️For small accounts, if the position size is small, even small take profits can be difficult to see as a meaningful profit amount in the account. This is the fundamental reason why most retail traders like to increase their margin and leverage ratios.
With patience, trading with tiny positions is actually the safest, and the win rate can even reach 99%. If the monthly return target is set at 10%, it is genuinely easy to achieve.
Would you choose a high return target while bearing a high proportion of principal losses, or a low return target with almost no principal loss? Which would you choose?
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DrawdownGuard
2026-10-11 01:10
I didn’t take EigenLayer’s restaking setup seriously at first, thinking it was just another layer of yield. But after trying it myself, I realized that “shared security” sounds great, while in reality your ETH is being used to back a bunch of projects you don’t even know, making the actual risk exposure impossible to calculate.
Before that chain’s recent upgrade, everyone in the group was saying that some protocol was going to migrate, but I actually became more nervous—the moment something goes wrong with the underlying chain, there’s no telling whether the restaked assets can get through the redemption bottleneck. The yield is compounded, but so are the illusions: you think you’re “optimizing capital efficiency,” when in reality you’re playing “who can run fastest.”
I’ve learned my lesson now. I set a separate 5% hard stop-loss for my restaking position and keep it apart from my main account. Put simply, what I learned wasn’t how to stack yields, but to admit that some things are beyond my ability to calculate—and if so, I shouldn’t pretend I can control them.