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BTCUSD short — 8 Oct 2026 (stopped out)
This short on BTCUSD entered at 81,018.1 and stopped out at 82,180 after 11.3 hours, closing at -1.43%.
| Asset | BTCUSD |
| Direction | short |
| Issued (UTC) | 2026-10-08 15:35 |
| Entry | 81,018.1 |
| Stop-loss | 82,180 |
| Take-profit 1 | 80,083.3 |
| Take-profit 2 (stretch) | 79,460 |
| Reward:risk at entry | 1.34 |
| Outcome | stopped out |
| Close price | 82,180 |
| Realized P&L | -1.43% |
| Time open | 11.3 hours |
What the model saw at issue time
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1. REGIME READ: MTF bear-aligned on 5m/15m/1h (alignment 4/4, label "mixed" only because 4h EMA still mixed), 1h ADX 48.8 slope +1.87 (strong, still firming), choppiness 49.6 / ER_10 0.41 (moderately directional), Hurst 0.45 mean-reverting, HMM calm conf 1.0 — a firming down-trend pinned at the 5d/20d/90d LOW. 2. LEAN CHECK: SHORT lean — price sits at dist_from_lows +0.00% on all horizons, net -2.75% 24h / -1.63% 4h, rolling z -3.12 and OI z-scores deeply negative (oi_15m_z -7.9, momentum accelerating_down). 3. DIRECTIONAL THESIS: trend+flow cluster — bear EMA stack across lower TFs with firming ADX, aggregated OI bleeding (-3.85% 24h) into a declining price = genuine deleveraging/continuation, and prior same-setup BTC shorts won +0.94/+0.99/+1.13%. 4. PRE-MORTEM: oversold RSI (20-27 across all TFs) + rolling z -3.12 + top-trader pos ratio 1.57 long means a sharp mean-reversion bounce could reclaim; the 5d/20d lows holding and a taker-buy flip (1h taker 1.16) is the risk. 5. LEVEL PLACEMENT: stop above the recent 4h swing / reclaim zone at 82,180 (dist ~1.43%, ~0.6x of 24h RV, structurally beyond the local bounce level); target the next structural extension lower at 79,460 (dist ~1.92%, R:R ~1.34, inside clamps). 6. EXPECTATION: firming downtrend favors continuation but deep oversold + crowded-long top-traders caps conviction and raises bounce/expire odds.
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