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This Week’s Insights for Traders - October 26
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Market Update
Crypto One Liners: What’s Driving the Market in a Minute - October 26
Oct 26: Cooling inflation and strong corporate earnings fueled optimism across risk assets, with Bitcoin rebounding alongside equity markets led by AI-driven tech stocks. Softer inflation data pushed Treasury yields and the dollar lower, while gold retreated as investors took profits. In digital-asset treasuries, MicroStrategy’s growth concerns contrasted with renewed institutional enthusiasm for Metaplanet, Bitmine, and Galaxy Digital. Bitcoin miners gained traction from AI-infrastructure pivots and institutional inflows, led by TeraWulf, CleanSpark, and Iren. Among major tokens, Solana, Jupiter, and Virtuals outperformed on ecosystem growth, while Tron and Ethena showed mixed sentiment amid DeFi rotation.
Market Update
Crypto Retail Traders Missed Out on $800 Billion — and It Might Be Forever.
Oct 24: Altcoins have underperformed Bitcoin by an astonishing $800 billion this cycle — and retail investors are the ones left behind. While social media continues to promise the next “alt season,” the data tells a different story. Our models show a decisive rotation back into Bitcoin, even as Korean retail traders, once the heart of altcoin speculation, shift their focus to U.S. crypto stocks. Liquidity, momentum, and conviction have all migrated elsewhere, leaving the altcoin market eerily quiet. Meanwhile, institutions are shaping this cycle in ways few expected — and retail may not yet realize what that means.
Market Update
Bear Market Watch: What Smart Money Is Seeing in Bitcoin’s Data
Oct 22: Bitcoin’s rally has stalled. Beneath the surface, key on-chain and derivatives signals that once fueled momentum are now fading. Institutional players are quietly tightening risk while retail traders remain trapped in breakeven limbo. Our proprietary models show this phase could determine whether the market resets—or reignites. Even with supportive macro trends and a strong equity backdrop, the data tells a different story. The real question now: are we witnessing another routine correction—or the first signs of a deeper turn?
Market Update
Bitcoin’s BIG Consolidation Won’t Last Forever.
Oct 21: Bitcoin’s performance isn’t driven by cycles—it’s driven by how much new capital enters the market to offset those exiting. Unlike gold, Bitcoin’s price is less about interest-rate expectations and more about net new demand actually flowing into the asset. Monitoring the balance between Bitcoin’s demand and supply dynamics provides a powerful edge in forecasting where the market heads next.
Market Update
10x Weekly Crypto Kickoff – $1.5 billion in Crypto ETF outflows and traders paying up for protection
Oct 20: Bitcoin’s sharp pullback has shaken leveraged traders, but derivatives markets are quietly revealing a more complex story beneath the surface. Funding rates have reset, volatility has spiked, and option traders are positioning for something bigger than just a short-term bounce. Ethereum, meanwhile, exhibits a curious divergence—its skew has shifted more bearish at the front end, even as long-term traders continue to buy calls.
Trading Signals
Crypto Trends Chart Book: Understand What is Moving in the Market and Why
Oct 26: See details inside.
Trading Signals
10x Derivatives Edge: BTC & ETH Volatility/Options Analysis
Oct 23: Traders are bracing for short-term turbulence across Bitcoin and Ethereum, with option markets signaling caution but not yet capitulation. Volatility curves have steepened at the front end, indicating a demand for near-term protection, even as longer-term expectations remain anchored. Skews have flipped sharply bearish after October’s liquidation, highlighting an uptick in put demand and hedging activity. While Bitcoin’s implied volatility still trades above realized—rewarding option sellers—Ethereum’s has dropped below realized, making its options cheap to buy.
Trading Signals
10x Derivatives Edge: Smart Options Plays
Oct 22: Trades: Selling puts ahead of major macro events—such as key data releases or rate decisions—can be tough to hold with confidence, even when put skew looks extreme. However, as the recent volatility data shows, the upside wing vols have also risen sharply—a move not fully reflected in traditional put-call skew metrics, but clearly visible in the ATM and call-vol levels. When this is combined with an inverted term structure, the setup becomes particularly interesting.
Trading Strategy
Crypto Stocks: Understand What is Moving in the Market and Why.
Oct 24: Bitcoin miners have quietly become some of the best-performing assets in crypto — and the gap versus Bitcoin itself has never been wider. The 10x Research BTC Mining Index has outperformed Bitcoin by more than fivefold, while several miners are pivoting into AI and high-performance computing, rewriting their investment narratives.
Trading Strategy
Ethereum Chart Book - Most Important Daily, Weekly, Monthly Charts
Oct 22: Multiple technical and on-chain indicators, once supportive, are now turning decisively lower. Short-term momentum has weakened, key moving averages have flipped to resistance, and even long-term trend gauges are starting to shift. While some monthly signals remain constructive, the balance of evidence points to a market entering a vulnerable phase.
Trading Strategy
Is Bitcoin Entering a Bear Market? A Deep Dive into Key On-Chain and Market Indicators
Oct 22: Bitcoin’s latest price action shows growing signs of cyclical fatigue as several on-chain and market-structure indicators align toward a potential transition from bull phase to consolidation—or even early bear territory. The Realized-to-Market Cap ratio, a long-term liquidity gauge, has begun to decelerate year-on-year, confirming that fresh capital inflows are weakening.
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