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Bitcoin is up 0.7% since the close brief, at 77,263, and Ether is up 1.5%. The day turns on Congressional Elections at 03:16 PM UTC. The desk closed nothing between these briefs.

Alts, daily close: the basket is -7.2% on the week, 18% of 198 coins above their 20-day average, 3 pumping (ARIA, EVAA, HAEDAL). The sample's base rate is a median -1.7% week for the basket, up about a third of the time.

Since the last brief

  • The regime read changed since the close brief.
  • BTC +0.7% since the close brief
  • ETH +1.5% since the close brief
  • SOL +1.4% since the close brief
  • PAXG +0.3% since the close brief
  • BTC dealer gamma turned positive

Majors

Prices and sparklines from Kraken; the sparkline is the last seven days on 4h. Range position: 0% at the 20-day low, 100% at the high.

Positioning

CoinFundingFunding vs historyOpen interestOI 24hOI vs historyLong/short
BTC+0.0100%–$7.71B+2.9%–2.65
ETH+0.0100%–$5.40B+0.3%–2.49
SOL+0.0100%–$871.8M−0.9%–3.20

Funding in % per 8h from Binance (Bybit when Binance has none); open interest and long/short from Binance and Bybit. Each bar places today's number among the coin's own last 90 days: a full bar is higher than every day of them. The top and bottom tenth are marked.

Liquidations

Last hour$1.1M longs · $3.0M shortsLast 24 hours$32.9M longs · $10.5M shorts

Our own recording of the Bybit, Binance and OKX liquidation streams.

Biggest print: ETH short $1.1M at 2,273 · 11:03 AM UTC

Options positioning

From Deribit's options book. Positive gamma: dealers tend to damp moves. Negative: they tend to add to them. The flip is where that changes.

Levels the bot tracks

  • BTCPDH78,740+1.9% away
  • BTCPDL76,565−0.9% away
  • BTCPWH81,882+6.0% away
  • BTCPWL76,156−1.4% away
  • ETHPDH2,314+1.3% away
  • ETHPDL2,234−2.2% away
  • ETHPWH2,390+4.6% away
  • ETHPWL2,170−5.0% away

Levels computed by the bot from price (prior highs and lows, opens, pattern necklines), not picks by the desk. Set alerts on these levels in the Terminal.

Macro and rates

DXY101.8+0.03%
Brent101.7−2.92%
S&P 5007,541−0.51%
Nasdaq25,164−1.07%
VIX20.82−1.56%
ES7,590+0.20%
NQ28,348+0.78%
Gold3,975+0.13%
Silver50.45−0.54%
US 3M4.02%+4 bp
US 5Y4.69%−0 bp
US 10Y4.90%+1 bp
US 30Y5.28%+1 bp
BTC and S&P 500, 30-day correlation-0.21loosely linked

Indices, the dollar, gold and Treasury yields from Yahoo Finance.

Today's events

From the ForexFactory calendar; times in your time zone.

  1. Congressional Elections
  2. ISM Services PMIForecast 54.8Previous 54.9

Earnings

CompanyWhenEPS forecastEPS actualSurprise
AAPL–1.982.05+3.5%
PLTR–0.320.320.0%
AMDAfter the close1.68––

Dates and estimates from Nasdaq.

Headlines

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Not financial advice. The brief is written by templates from the numbers, with no AI, and says what happened, not what to trade.