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BTCUSD short — 26 Oct 2026 (expired)
This short on BTCUSD entered at 79,602.7 and reached neither its target nor its stop within 24 hours. It expired at 80,229 with a price move of -0.79%, and does not count in the win rate.
| Asset | BTCUSD |
| Direction | short |
| Issued (UTC) | 2026-10-26 01:42 |
| Entry | 79,602.7 |
| Stop-loss | 80,850 |
| Take-profit 1 | 78,701.1 |
| Take-profit 2 (stretch) | 78,100 |
| Reward:risk at entry | 1.20 |
| Outcome | expired flat |
| Close price | 80,229 |
| Realized P&L | -0.79% |
| Time open | 24 hours |
What the model saw at issue time
AI-generated analysis, written before the outcome was known. Quoted verbatim, never edited after the close.
1. REGIME READ: mtf_alignment full_bearish 4/4 (5m/15m/1h/4h all EMA bear-aligned), 1h ADX 25.2 slope +1.8 (firming), 4h ADX 34.8, choppiness 48.9, ER_10 0.55 (reasonably clean recent leg), Hurst 0.53 neutral, HMM calm — a genuine, firming bear trend pressing the lows. 2. LEAN CHECK: clear SHORT lean — net moves negative across all horizons (-0.75/-0.89/-1.53%), price sits at 5d/20d/90d low (+0.000 vs lows, -6.09% off highs), rolling z -2.08, total3 -5.98% 5d. 3. DIRECTIONAL THESIS: HTF trend alignment is the strongest cluster — full bearish stack with firming ADX, confirmed by broad risk-off (SPX -0.5%, gold -1.3%, BTC ETF -$137.9M outflow at -9.6x velocity, total mcap -3.8% 24h). 4. PRE-MORTEM: 15m RSI 26.6 oversold + taker ratio 1.10 (recent buy tilt) + top-trader pos ratio 1.63 long could spark an oversold reclaim bounce back through ~80,700. 5. LEVEL PLACEMENT: entry 79,602.74; stop above the recent swing/invalidation at 80,850 (distance ~1,247 ≈ 1.57%, ~0.7x 24h RV range); take_profit_1 stretch at 78,100 (distance ~1,503, R:R ~1.21x, within 1.5x and 4% clamps) — a reachable continuation leg toward fresh lows. 6. EXPECTATION: trend-aligned continuation but oversold RSI and 24h-expiry risk temper it.
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