ETHUSD short — 12 Aug 2026 (hit target)
This short on ETHUSD entered at 1,902.2 and hit its target at 1,880.7 after 10 hours, closing at +1.13%.
| Asset | ETHUSD |
| Direction | short |
| Issued (UTC) | 2026-08-12 09:41 |
| Entry | 1,902.2 |
| Stop-loss | 1,934.8 |
| Take-profit 1 | 1,880.7 |
| Take-profit 2 (stretch) | 1,866.4 |
| Reward:risk at entry | 1.10 |
| Outcome | hit its target |
| Close price | 1,880.7 |
| Realized P&L | +1.13% |
| Time open | 10 hours |
What the model saw at issue time
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1. REGIME READ: mtf mixed (0/4 alignment, EMA stacks conflict across TFs — 5m bull, 1h bear, 15m/4h mixed), ADX_1h 18.7 (weak) though slope +2.09, Hurst 0.38 (mean-reverting), choppiness 43, ER-30 0.19, HMM calm, F&G 27 Fear — a low-conviction, mean-reverting chop with a fresh short-term upward pop. 2. LEAN CHECK: two-sided but a modest short lean emerges — RSI overbought on 5m (74) and 15m (76), net +0.63% 4h / +0.99% 12h pop into resistance (price only -1.48% from 5d/20d/90d high, i.e. pinned near the top), funding hot (z +1.35, agg_z +1.40) = crowded long, OI declining (-1.75%), taker last bucket 1.02 neutral. 3. DIRECTIONAL THESIS: fade the overbought pop — this asset's recent winning setups were shorts into fresh 4h impulses in mean-reverting chop with hot funding; overbought RSI + crowded funding + declining OI + price stalled at the 5d high favor a pullback. Counter to the 5m bull-EMA but aligned with Hurst mean-reversion and the top-trader crowding risk. 4. PRE-MORTEM: a clean break and hold above the 5d/20d high (~1930) with OI turning up would invalidate the fade and signal genuine breakout continuation. 5. LEVEL PLACEMENT: stop above the 5d high beyond invalidation at 1934.8 (~1.72%, within ~0.5-1x the 31.6% rv/atr range); take_profit_1 stretch at 1866.4 (~1.88% below, R:R ~1.09) targeting the mid-range support / prior consolidation. 6. EXPECTATION: mean-reverting chop favors the fade modestly but overbought can extend; p_tp1 41, p_sl 38, p_expire 21.
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