btc didn’t dump because of bad news. it dumped because the clock flipped. utc close, new day, new week, new month... and an obscene amount of algos fired almost simultaneously. it’s not traders making decisions, it’s portfolios rebalancing in real time. inventory adjusted.

your avg market participant isn’t rational. they’re reactive and most of the time they’re just guessing with fake confidence. oversimplified example… you can tell someone “the sky is blue” and they’ll argue it’s black. not because you’re wrong, but because it’s night where they

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this is what peak alt performance looks like btw

unbothered and pippin

it’s been a pleasure

typical day as a crypto trader 6:00 – wake up, check if asia nuked my bags overnight. btc flat, random sol memecoin +700%. 6:05 – make coffee. scroll twitter. everyone posting “bottom is in.” 6:10 – open binance. realize i left a limit order overnight that got filled. price

my intern cooked for his first research project… take a look and give him a follow

btc didn’t dump because of bad news. it dumped because the clock flipped. utc close, new day, new week, new month... and an obscene amount of algos fired almost simultaneously. it’s not traders making decisions, it’s portfolios rebalancing in real time. inventory adjusted.

for those who never heard of daily close rebalancing… the explanation is simple if you ever did algo trading. a lot of systematic strategies use the closing price as a primary data source. the higher the timeframe, the bigger the liquidity spike that gets compressed into a

if you learned something from my last post, i’d genuinely recommend going deeper into two things: > momentum ignition > daily close rebalancing and if you’ve ever scalped orderflow, you’ll understand this one instantly even though it’s not an official term: > orderbook

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**Post from TG by Andryunin, CEO of Gotbit** Crypto got murdered overnight by algorithms. Let’s figure this out together with the surviving bulls on Twitter. CT is actively digging into the idea that tonight’s Bitcoin crash (and the alt bleed that followed) wasn’t triggered by

@nik_algo @Volubile_Bokeh A lot of big desks and their counterparties adjust inventory on daily rollups. 00:00-23:59 utc So they trade otc throughout the day but they don’t settle until 00:00. So massive amounts move on high volume days when the rollup settlement happens Mms work hard to avoid intraday

your avg market participant isn’t rational. they’re reactive and most of the time they’re just guessing with fake confidence. oversimplified example… you can tell someone “the sky is blue” and they’ll argue it’s black. not because you’re wrong, but because it’s night where they

for those who never heard of daily close rebalancing… the explanation is simple if you ever did algo trading. a lot of systematic strategies use the closing price as a primary data source. the higher the timeframe, the bigger the liquidity spike that gets compressed into a

grok knows, you should too

study orderbook reactivity vol spike in a thin book, makers pulled, spread widened, inventory got distributed, then mean reversion

ta bros who never touched orderflow or the orderbook trying to teach me how markets work is exactly why i’m still on ct. the confidence is wild. the experience is not.

@nik_algo leverage and algorithmic trading synthetic volatility

if you learned something from my last post, i’d genuinely recommend going deeper into two things: > momentum ignition > daily close rebalancing and if you’ve ever scalped orderflow, you’ll understand this one instantly even though it’s not an official term: > orderbook