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BTCUSD short — 20 Oct 2026 (stopped out)
This short on BTCUSD entered at 81,581.6 and stopped out at 82,790 after 13.7 hours, closing at -1.48%.
| Asset | BTCUSD |
| Direction | short |
| Issued (UTC) | 2026-10-20 00:24 |
| Entry | 81,581.6 |
| Stop-loss | 82,790 |
| Take-profit 1 | 80,698.6 |
| Take-profit 2 (stretch) | 80,110 |
| Reward:risk at entry | 1.22 |
| Outcome | stopped out |
| Close price | 82,790 |
| Realized P&L | -1.48% |
| Time open | 13.7 hours |
What the model saw at issue time
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1. REGIME READ: 5m/4h EMA bear-aligned, 15m/1h mixed, alignment 2/4, 1h ADX 15.4 slope -1.39 (fading, sub-chop), 4h ADX 30.4 (genuine down structure), choppiness 54.3, ER_30 0.08 (noisy path netting nowhere), Hurst 0.39 mean-reverting, HMM calm — a 4h bear structure in a low-ADX choppy drift. 2. LEAN CHECK: modest SHORT lean — net moves negative across all horizons (-0.49/-1.19/-0.83%), rolling z -0.87, price below 5d/20d highs, taker ratio 0.837 (sellers active last hour), 5m RSI oversold 22; the short bias is consistent with the strong recent track record of BTC shorts in this regime. 3. DIRECTIONAL THESIS: 4h bear structure + negative momentum across all horizons + funding stretched hot (agg_funding_z 1.95, funding_z 1.71) implies crowded longs vulnerable to flush, and taker sell flow confirms sellers in control — trend-aligned short. 4. PRE-MORTEM: 5m RSI deeply oversold (22) and top-traders heavily long (pos ratio 1.83, accounts 1.77) — a relief bounce / reclaim above the 5d-high area (~82,800) would invalidate. 5. LEVEL PLACEMENT: entry 81,581.59; stop_loss 82,790 beyond the 5d-high reclaim zone (~1.48% / within rv_24h range); take_profit_1 80,110 (~1.80% down, ~1.22x stop distance, R:R ~1.2, a structural extension toward the 5d-low zone), reachable given avg 24h traversal ~0.98% but recent 12h move already -1.19% keeps momentum live. 6. EXPECTATION: oversold short-term bounce risk and hot funding both cut into a clean follow-through, so moderate confidence.
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