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BTCUSD short — 16 Sep 2026 (stopped out)
This short on BTCUSD entered at 75,505.6 and stopped out at 76,790 after 16.8 hours, closing at -1.70%.
| Asset | BTCUSD |
| Direction | short |
| Issued (UTC) | 2026-09-16 19:28 |
| Entry | 75,505.6 |
| Stop-loss | 76,790 |
| Take-profit 1 | 74,728.2 |
| Take-profit 2 (stretch) | 74,210 |
| Reward:risk at entry | 1.01 |
| Outcome | stopped out |
| Close price | 76,790 |
| Realized P&L | -1.70% |
| Time open | 16.8 hours |
What the model saw at issue time
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1. REGIME READ: MTF bear-aligned on 5m/15m/1h (4h mixed), 1h ADX 30.6 but slope -3.82 (trend fading), choppiness 57.3 (mid-high), ER_10 0.37 / ER_30 0.15 (low efficiency — path nets little), Hurst 0.42 (mean-reverting), HMM calm conf 1.0 — a decelerating bearish drift in a calm, low-efficiency tape. 2. LEAN CHECK: leans SHORT with the bearish EMA stack and net -0.83%/24h, -0.32%/4h, but z_score -2.04 (stretched below 20d mean, sitting at 20d/90d lows +0.13% off) argues the easy downside is behind and a bounce risk is elevated — thin edge, and OI is accelerating_up (+2.73 15m z) with top-traders heavily long (pos ratio 2.30), which contradicts fresh shorts. 3. DIRECTIONAL THESIS: I lean SHORT on trend alignment (5m/15m/1h all bear) and fading momentum, but this asset has 3 consecutive winning shorts here and the tape favors the trend-side; the down-impulse is decelerating so this is a low-confidence trend continuation, not a fresh breakout. 4. PRE-MORTEM: z_score -2.04 at 90d lows + accelerating OI + top-trader crowding long = a short-covering reclaim of ~76,000 would invalidate the continuation. 5. LEVEL PLACEMENT: entry 75,505; stop above the 4h/recent reclaim pivot at 76,780 (~1.69% risk, within ~0.65x rv range); TP at 74,300 structural swing toward the low (~1.6% reward = ~0.95x... adjust) — set TP 74,240 giving reward ~1.68% ≈ 1.0x risk. 6. EXPECTATION: decelerating trend + stretched-below mean = elevated expire/bounce risk.
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