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ETHUSD short — 18 Oct 2026 (stopped out)
This short on ETHUSD entered at 2,333.9 and stopped out at 2,381.5 after 2.3 hours, closing at -2.04%.
| Asset | ETHUSD |
| Direction | short |
| Issued (UTC) | 2026-10-18 19:39 |
| Entry | 2,333.9 |
| Stop-loss | 2,381.5 |
| Take-profit 1 | 2,298.6 |
| Take-profit 2 (stretch) | 2,275 |
| Reward:risk at entry | 1.24 |
| Outcome | stopped out |
| Close price | 2,381.5 |
| Realized P&L | -2.04% |
| Time open | 2.3 hours |
What the model saw at issue time
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1. REGIME READ: Full bearish — mtf_alignment 4/4 bear_aligned across 5m/15m/1h/4h, 1h ADX 29.9 slope +6.0 (trend strengthening hard), 4h ADX 32.9, choppiness 31.9 (trending zone), ER-10 0.88 (very clean one-way move), HMM calm hi-conf; price z -2.45, net moves deeply negative 4h/12h/24h (-1.81%/-3.01%/-3.26%), sitting at 5d/20d/90d lows. 2. LEAN CHECK: clear short lean — trend, momentum, flow, and positioning-to-be-flushed all point down; no reclaim. 3. DIRECTIONAL THESIS: strongest cluster is trend+momentum — 4/4 bear alignment with accelerating 1h ADX, high ER-10, oi_momentum accelerating_down, taker ratio 0.795 (sellers dominant), agg OI -3.56% confirming a genuine trend-down, and price pinned at fresh lows. 4. PRE-MORTEM: RSI deeply oversold (5m 17.9, 15m 18.7, 1h 24.0) at fresh lows + top_trader_pos_ratio 1.62 long — a mean-reversion bounce could squeeze shorts; a reclaim of ~2380 would invalidate. 5. LEVEL PLACEMENT: entry 2333.88; stop above the recent bounce pivot / invalidation at 2381.5 (~2.04% ≈ 0.6x the 7d avg daily range, structural); stretch target down at 2275.0 (~2.52% = ~1.23x stop distance, R:R ~1.23, well inside clamps) toward next support extension below the current low, reachable within 24h given avg 24h traversal 1.67% and rv elevated. 6. EXPECTATION: trend-aligned with accel, but oversold RSI raises bounce odds — p_tp1 46, p_sl 33, p_expire 21.
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