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ETHUSD short — 17 Oct 2026 (stopped out)
This short on ETHUSD entered at 2,375.7 and stopped out at 2,412.5 after 4 hours, closing at -1.55%.
| Asset | ETHUSD |
| Direction | short |
| Issued (UTC) | 2026-10-17 21:39 |
| Entry | 2,375.7 |
| Stop-loss | 2,412.5 |
| Take-profit 1 | 2,353.1 |
| Take-profit 2 (stretch) | 2,338 |
| Reward:risk at entry | 1.03 |
| Outcome | stopped out |
| Close price | 2,412.5 |
| Realized P&L | -1.55% |
| Time open | 4 hours |
What the model saw at issue time
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1. REGIME READ: Full bearish MTF (4/4 bear_aligned across 5m/15m/1h/4h), but 1h ADX only 17.9 (weak though slope +2.86 strengthening), choppiness 30.9 (trending zone), ER-10 0.55, Hurst 0.44 mean-reverting, HMM calm; price z -2.03, net moves negative 4h/12h/24h (-1.41%/-2.44%/-1.59%), sitting -6.2% below 5d high and only +1.57% off 5d/20d/90d low. 2. LEAN CHECK: short lean on trend-aligned structure, but caution — price is deeply oversold (5m RSI 11.5, 15m RSI 21, 1h RSI 29.7, z -2.03) right at the 90d-low region, which risks a mean-revert bounce. 3. DIRECTIONAL THESIS: trend cluster is clean (full_bearish 4/4, choppiness trending, fresh -2.44% 12h push, OI accelerating_down oi_momentum_state, agg OI -2.06% = longs bleeding) favoring continuation lower toward the 5d/90d-low. 4. PRE-MORTEM: deeply oversold RSI stack + z -2.03 + top-trader pos ratio 1.68 long + taker 1.32 buy skew = a snap reclaim back above ~2400 would invalidate and trigger a short-squeeze bounce. 5. LEVEL PLACEMENT: stop above the recent reclaim/intraday structure at 2412.5 (~1.55% / ~1x atr), target the 90d-low break at 2338 (~1.59%), R:R ~1.03, within clamps and 24h-reachable given avg 24h traversal 1.60% and rv 41.6%. 6. EXPECTATION: trend-aligned continuation favored but oversold bounce risk keeps p_sl meaningful; meaningful p_expire given low ADX chop.
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