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Pro Swing Trader Daily Brief
Wednesday, November 4, 2026

Good morning. Bitcoin dropped sharply as the first midterm results came in last night, then climbed back through the early hours and is trading above where it started the day. Democrats have won control of Congress, spot Bitcoin ETFs lost money for a third straight day, and today is a data day: ADP, the Treasury's refunding announcement and ISM services. The numbers are in the dashboard below.

I'm writing at about 7:15 a.m. ET.

Updates to Tuesday's edition

  • ETFs. Tuesday's flow is in and covered below. TFTC is still my only per-fund source, because Farside and SoSoValue block my requests. Decrypt's total matches TFTC's.

  • The Senate. I wrote 53–47 as the starting point. The result is in the next section, with a conflict I couldn't settle.

  • Uber. I had it reporting today. Trading Economics shows it already reported, so I've dropped it from today's calendar.

  • Tuesday's plan is graded in Premium, below the paywall.

Election night: Democrats take both chambers

  • Control. FXStreet, quoting AP at 2:00 a.m. ET, says Democrats "have seized control of the US Senate." Its count is 54 seats. CoinDesk's live blog at 11:07 p.m. ET had Democrats on 49, just short of the majority. I can't reconcile the two, so treat the exact Senate count as unverified.

  • House. Decision Desk HQ (via FXStreet) had called 376 of 435 seats: Democrats 233, Republicans 143, with 218 needed to win.

  • Key races. Sherrod Brown beat Jon Husted in Ohio (CoinDesk, 11:16 p.m. ET). The Block called that a blow to the crypto super PAC Fairshake, which spent heavily against him. Roy Cooper won the North Carolina seat held by Thom Tillis, the first Democratic Senate flip. Jon Ossoff won in Georgia (NBC), and James Talarico beat Ken Paxton in Texas.

  • Still open or not found. Mississippi's Senate race was tied with most of the vote counted. I found no results for Michigan, Maine or Pennsylvania.

What it did to crypto

  • The dip. CoinDesk says Bitcoin sank briefly as the first results arrived. BTSE's Jeff Mei linked it to Democratic opposition to the CLARITY Act, the crypto market-structure bill (CoinDesk, 11:48 p.m. ET).

  • The rebound. TDX's Dick Lo told CoinDesk that a clear outcome removes political uncertainty. Paradigm's read is that Polymarket had priced a Democratic win above 75% for a while, so the overnight move was "less about the outcome." CoinDesk's own piece also credits lower yields and a weaker dollar.

  • Liquidations. They rose 22% to $469 million across the market over 24 hours. I found no split between longs and shorts (CoinDesk, 5:38 a.m. ET).

  • Who led. DeFi tokens led the bounce. TRUMP fell 7.1% and WLFI fell 5% (CoinDesk).

  • Miners. AI-linked miners and hosts (CIFR, WULF, CRWV, GLXY, IREN) fell 3% to 5% before the bell on Texas data-center risk (CoinDesk).

Tuesday on Wall Street

  • Indexes. Trading Economics has the S&P 500 up 0.36%, the Nasdaq Composite up 0.83% and the Dow down 0.38%. Its index levels don't reconcile with investingLive's Monday closes, so I'm giving moves only, and from one source.

  • Winners and losers. Oracle +5.85%, Broadcom +3.07%, Microsoft +2.70% and Nvidia +2.27%. Apple −1.92% and Tesla −1.39% (Trading Economics).

  • JOLTS. September job openings came in at 7.523 million, well above the 7.10 million expected, with the prior month revised to 7.19 million. Quits were 3.365 million (a rate of 2.1%, up from 1.9%). A strong labor market keeps the rate-hike debate alive (my read, not a quoted view).

  • After the close. AMD beat on earnings and revenue, and the shares rose after hours and in premarket, by more than 6% at one point (Trading Economics). Super Micro and Arista were also "better than expected." I couldn't find exact figures for any of the three. For Block, CoinDesk's headline says it faces a $764 million DOJ settlement and that its bitcoin profit fell 50%. I found no more detail.

This morning

  • Asia and Europe. Japan's Nikkei fell 1.42%. Hong Kong's Hang Seng rose 2.49% and China's market 2.16%. In Europe the DAX is up 1.42% and the FTSE 100 up 1.25% (Trading Economics).

  • US futures. I found conflicting readings. FXStreet at 2:00 a.m. ET had them lower, and a later Trading Economics summary had them higher. I can't tell you which is current.

  • Dollar, gold, oil. The dollar index is lower. Gold is sharply higher. Brent is near $102.23, down 1.3%. Iran talks are still stuck: investingLive (5:49 a.m. ET) reports progress on some concessions, but Iranian officials called Washington's response "insufficient."

  • Fed. I couldn't find December rate-hike odds. Trading Economics shows the Fed funds rate at 4.00%.

Crypto news and Binance

  • Binance. Its next proof-of-reserves snapshot is today. I found no list of the withdrawals still paused and no new Elliptic update. BNB is near $700 (Decrypt widget, undated) after about $689 late Tuesday (CoinDesk).

  • New exploit. French bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa was hit for more than $133 million, per ZachXBT (The Block, 11:57 p.m. ET). I haven't seen a link to Binance.

  • Policy. The CFTC approved US individual-stock perpetual futures. A division of the SEC said Canton Coin is a digital commodity. South Korea's ruling party proposed deferring the crypto income tax (The Block, Tuesday).

  • Wall Street. Morgan Stanley is tokenizing US equities and Treasuries through DTCC, and BitGo launched an institutional trading business (The Block, Wednesday). Moscow Exchange plans to list BTC and USDT in December (CoinDesk).

ETFs: a third straight day of outflows

IBIT drove it again. Fidelity's FBTC and Bitwise's BITB took in money, and Grayscale's Mini Bitcoin Trust lost some. The total and the fund-by-fund split are in the dashboard and in Premium. TFTC says the data was last checked at 5:00 a.m. ET. I'm treating it as complete because IBIT is included and the line sums.

I couldn't find Ether ETF flows for Monday or Tuesday.

Where Bitcoin stands

Bitcoin dipped under Monday's low overnight, then spiked back up. It's slightly under this week's open and above November's open, so the month is up about 0.8%. Ether recovered about 1.9% from Tuesday's close. SOL is near $93 and XRP near $1.28.

Market dashboard

BTC

$77,337 (Tuesday 7 p.m. ET close) · +0.86% · about $78,045 at 7:15 a.m. ET

BTC overnight range

low $75,601 (10 p.m. hour) · high $78,622 (6 a.m. hour)

ETH

$2,272 (Tuesday close) · +0.98% · about $2,315 at 7:15 a.m. ET

Funding rate (OKX, 8h)

BTC +0.0088% · ETH +0.0066%

Open interest

OKX BTC perps $2.77B (35,488 BTC)

BTC ETF flow

Tuesday −$115.6M (TFTC) · November −$514.2M · last three days −$1.16B

Stablecoins (USDT + USDC)

$248.9B · 7-day −$4.2B

Whale line

Tether's CEO claims 150,000 BTC (a statement, not on-chain) · the stolen 18,270 BTC: no update found

Fear & Greed (alternative.me)

34 (fear) · Tuesday 26

US 10Y · WTI · Gold

about 4.93% · about $95 · about $4,035

Open interest is the total value of futures contracts still open. It's about 4% above Tuesday morning even though the price was whipsawed, so traders added positions through the swing. The data doesn't say which side.

Fear & Greed improved overnight, though it is still in fear territory.

Today and tomorrow (ET)

  • Wednesday, 8:15 a.m.: ADP private payrolls, expected 69K, prior 90K (FXStreet). 8:30: trade balance and the Treasury refunding announcement. I couldn't find the size expectations. 10:00: ISM services, expected 54.8, prior 54.9 (Trading Economics, as of Monday). After the close: Qualcomm and Arm (calendar as of Monday, not re-verified). Today: Binance's second proof-of-reserves snapshot.

  • Thursday: the Bank of England (a hike to 4.00% expected), jobless claims, and Strategy's CFO leaves.

  • Friday, 8:30 a.m.: the October jobs report. 3:30 p.m.: the CFTC's weekly positioning report.

Today's takeaway

Bitcoin flushed on the headline and rebuilt the drop within hours, which fits Paradigm's read that the result was largely priced in. The worry that stays is the ETFs: three straight days of outflows while the price recovered.

The line above is this week's open, which price is sitting just under, then this morning's high. Below, it's Tuesday's close, then last night's low. A data day can move all four.

Inside Premium today

Yesterday's result: the "higher" case triggered at the 7 a.m. hour and reached two of its three zones. The "break" case then triggered at 9 p.m. and reached all three.

Today in Premium:

  • Tuesday's plan, graded. Two cases fired in one day, and what the plan didn't cover after 7 p.m.

  • 28 BTC key levels, each with its source, including Glassnode's ETF cost basis and Tuesday night's low.

  • Order book walls: the biggest standing orders on Coinbase and Kraken, with a snapshot time.

  • Liquidation clusters: where CoinGlass estimates the leveraged shorts above and longs below would be forced out.

  • A plan for today: ADP, the refunding and ISM services.

  • Whales & institutions: ETF flows by fund, CME positioning, and Tether's claim.

  • Options and funding check: the election-day options blocks and what funding did.

🔒 Scenario C: BTC hourly close below $7█,███ → next zones $7█,███ and $7█,███

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Premium: Scorecard (Tuesday's plan, Nov 3)

Tuesday's plan was written at about 5:15 a.m. ET with Bitcoin near $76,950. A was "higher" (an hourly close above $77,186). B was "range" ($76,553 to $77,109). C was "break" (an hourly close under $76,553). The daily close was at 7 p.m. ET, Wednesday 00:00 UTC.

A · higher: triggered, and reached two of three zones. The 7 a.m. hour closed at $77,299, above the yellow band ($77,109 to $77,263), which confirmed the trigger. The 8 a.m. hour reached $77,424 and $77,699. The third zone, $78,232, wasn't reached: the high on the plan's day was $77,981. A's "wrong if" line (an hourly close under $76,553 within a day) fired at 9 p.m.

C · break: triggered, and reached all three zones, but after the daily close. The 9 p.m. hour closed at $76,040, clear of the yellow band ($76,477 to $76,630). The zones were $76,400, $76,239 and $76,141, and the low was $76,032 in that hour. The 10 p.m. hour then fell to $75,601 before the rebound. C's "wrong if" line (a daily close back above $77,186) can't be scored cleanly: the daily close was $77,337, but the break came two hours after it.

B · range: not wrong by its own test, but not right either. The daily close was inside B's limits (under $77,699 and above $76,141), so the "wrong if" line didn't fire. But the 7 a.m. close left the range at the top, and Bitcoin spent most of the day above it.

ETH: A's first zone, $2,290, was reached (the day's high was $2,304.62). The second, $2,311, wasn't reached before the daily close. On the break side, $2,237 had been touched that morning, $2,233 was reached after 7 p.m., and the third, $2,218, was missed by about $5 (the low was $2,223).

What we got right: I ranked A and C above B, and both fired, in order. The pre-JOLTS line also gave the right next zones: after the 7 a.m. close above the trigger, both A zones fell in the next hour.

What we got wrong: the JOLTS caveat. I wrote that a hot JOLTS would turn $77,186 back into a ceiling. JOLTS came in hot and Bitcoin held above that line until the evening.

What we learned: on an event night, a plan with a 7 p.m. daily close leaves the biggest move unscored. When results land after the close, I'll add an "after 7 p.m." line to the plan.

Premium: Key levels (cited)

28 BTC levels, each with its source.

BTC, above:

  • $87,249: the Oct 2 high (Coinbase daily candle).

  • $83,556: October's open (Coinbase).

  • $82,007: the Oct 19 weekly open (Coinbase).

  • $81.5K: the average cost basis of the US spot ETFs (Glassnode, The Week On-chain, Oct 28).

  • $80,694: the Oct 16 low (Coinbase).

  • $80,053: the Oct 26 weekly open (Coinbase).

  • $79,107: the Oct 24 low (Coinbase).

BTC, the middle:

  • $78,762: the Sunday-night high (Coinbase).

  • $78,622: this morning's high so far, 6 a.m. ET hour (Coinbase).

  • $78,232: this week's open (Coinbase).

  • $78,177: the low of Thursday's 4 p.m. ET hour, when the hack began (Coinbase).

  • $78,000: a put spread target Derive flagged (CoinDesk, Oct 16), and a round number.

  • $77.9K: the True Market Mean, an on-chain average-cost line (Glassnode, Oct 28).

  • $77,699: Thursday's 7 p.m. hour low (Coinbase).

  • $77,424: October's close and November's open (Coinbase).

  • $77,337: Tuesday's close, 7 p.m. ET (Coinbase).

  • $77,186: Monday night's high, 8 p.m. ET hour (Coinbase).

BTC, below:

  • $76,553: Monday's low, 2 p.m. ET hour (Coinbase).

  • $76,400: the 200-day average (FXStreet, Oct 30).

  • $76,239: Tuesday's low on the plan's day, 1 a.m. ET hour (Coinbase).

  • $76,141: October's low, Oct 30 (Coinbase).

  • $75.8K: the short-term-holder cost basis, the average cost of coins bought in the last 155 days (Glassnode, Oct 28).

  • $75,601: last night's low, 10 p.m. ET hour (Coinbase).

  • $75,545: a horizontal support. FXStreet says a daily close under it opens $70,000 (FXStreet, Oct 30).

  • $75,451: Strategy's average purchase price for its 849,327 BTC (Strategy filing, via The Block).

  • $75,000: a liquidation cluster flagged by Glassnode (Oct 7).

  • $74,000: the 23.6% retracement FXStreet named as the next stop if the 200-day average broke (FXStreet, Oct 26).

  • $70,000: FXStreet's path if $75,545 breaks on a daily close (FXStreet, Oct 30).

The order book walls and liquidation clusters have their own blocks below.

ETH:

  • $2,777: the October high (Coinbase).

  • $2,390 and $2,377: Wednesday's high and Thursday's high (Coinbase).

  • $2,337: this morning's high so far (Coinbase).

  • $2,327: the Oct 26 weekly open (Coinbase).

  • $2,315: the Sunday-night high (Coinbase).

  • $2,311: ETH's realized price, the on-chain cost basis (FXStreet, Oct 24).

  • $2,290: Wednesday's low (Coinbase).

  • $2,272: this week's open (Coinbase).

  • $2,252: November's open (Coinbase).

  • $2,245: Sunday's low (Coinbase).

  • $2,237: Tuesday's low on the plan's day (Coinbase).

  • $2,233: Monday's low (Coinbase).

  • $2,223: last night's low (Coinbase).

  • $2,218: the low of Friday afternoon (Coinbase).

  • $2,205: a support from FXStreet (Oct 24).

  • $2,170: October's low (Coinbase).

  • $1,972 and $1,828: deeper supports (FXStreet, Oct 24).

Premium: Order book walls (snapshot 7:12 a.m. ET)

These are standing buy and sell orders on Coinbase (BTC-USD) and Kraken (BTC/USD), taken at about 7:12 a.m. ET with Bitcoin near $78,060. They are not trades, and they can be pulled in a blink. This is the first snapshot, so I can't tell you whether yesterday's walls were pulled.

Balance within 1% of the price. Coinbase has 154.0 BTC of bids and 176.8 BTC of asks. Kraken has 135.3 BTC of bids and 171.3 BTC of asks. Both venues show more sell orders than buy orders nearby, about 15% more on Coinbase and 27% more on Kraken. That's a mild lean, not a signal.

Walls above:

  • Coinbase 78,311.74: 57.5 BTC ($4.50M), the biggest wall on either side of Coinbase's book. The price is an odd number and the size sits on one tick, so it looks like one large order or one algorithm. That's an inference: I can't see order counts here.

  • Around the weekly open: Coinbase also has 12.5, 14.5 and 16.3 BTC at 78,174.60, 78,221.49 and 78,270.16, and Kraken has 25.6 BTC ($2.00M) at 78,234.50. The weekly open is wrapped in sell orders on both venues.

  • Kraken 79,780.00: 50.0 BTC ($3.99M). A round price and a round size usually mean one order (inference).

  • Coinbase 80,000.00: 20.3 BTC ($1.63M), a round-number wall.

Walls below:

  • Kraken 77,896.70: 25.7 BTC ($2.00M), the biggest bid near the price. Coinbase's biggest bids stack between 77,748.86 and 77,970.76, at 10.9 to 16.8 BTC each ($0.85M to $1.31M).

  • Kraken 76,100.10: 20.2 BTC ($1.54M), the one large bid far below the price. It sits within $41 of October's low.

Whale or market maker? The first five price levels on each side are almost empty on both venues, and the two sides don't mirror each other. I don't see a market-maker ladder in this snapshot, but I can't see who placed these orders.

Walls to watch (not predictions): the stack of sell orders around the weekly open, the 50 BTC order on Kraken, and the 20 BTC bid near October's low.

Caveats: walls can be spoofed, icebergs hide size, ETF and over-the-counter buying never shows in the book, and two venues are a small slice of the market. These walls are worth $1M to $5M each. A big ETF flow day is worth tens of times that.

Premium: Liquidation clusters (CoinGlass, 7:16 a.m. ET)

This is CoinGlass's liquidation map for Binance BTC/USDT (Model 1, 24-hour window), read at about 7:16 a.m. ET with Bitcoin near $78,050. The bars are CoinGlass's model estimates of where leveraged positions would be force-closed. They are not actual positions. Clusters that the price has already traded through disappear from the map.

Shorts above (forced buys, fuel for a squeeze):

  • The nearest clusters are $78,817 ($14.5M) and $78,944 ($18.1M). The biggest is $79,008 ($45.0M). Next come $79,199 ($28.4M), $79,834 ($24.4M) and $80,025 ($18.6M).

  • Added up from the price: about $135M of shorts by $79,199, about $239M by $80,025, and about $329M up to $81,678.

Longs below (forced sells):

  • The nearest clusters are $77,736 ($13.9M) and $77,673 ($33.4M). The biggest is $77,482 ($48.7M). Then come $76,847 ($31.6M), $76,147 ($36.1M) and $75,194 ($23.6M).

  • Added up from the price: about $96M of longs by $77,482, about $264M by $76,147, about $399M by $75,130, and about $505M down to $72,842.

Which side is the bigger pool? Within about 2% of the price, longs below total about $220M and shorts above about $187M. The long pool is bigger at every distance I checked. A bigger pool can pull price toward it, but nothing says it will.

How it lines up with the other blocks:

  • The biggest long cluster sits next to November's open and just above Tuesday's close.

  • The $76,147 long cluster, October's low and the 20 BTC Kraken bid are all within about $50 of each other. That is the strongest confluence in today's data.

  • On the way up, the $79,834 and $80,025 short clusters sit next to the 50 BTC Kraken ask and the 20 BTC Coinbase ask. The biggest short cluster sits just under the Oct 24 low.

Caveats: Binance BTC/USDT only, one model, a 24-hour window, a single snapshot. Bitcoin dipped under $76,000 last night, so some of the lower longs may already have been cleared. Treat this as a map of where forced orders might sit.

Premium: Scenario plan (data day)

These are conditional scenarios, not predictions or buy/sell calls. A "break" needs an hourly close, not a wick. A close within about 0.1% of a trigger is a yellow light: check the next hour. I'm writing this at about 7:25 a.m. ET Wednesday, before ADP.

Where BTC starts: about $78,045, just under this week's open. ETH starts near $2,315.

The drivers, in order of when they land:

  1. 8:15 a.m.: ADP.

  2. 8:30 a.m.: the Treasury refunding announcement. I couldn't find the size expectations.

  3. 10:00 a.m.: ISM services.

  4. All day: remaining election calls, and Binance's second snapshot.

  5. After 4 p.m.: Qualcomm and Arm. Thursday: the Bank of England. Friday: the jobs report.

A · Higher: BTC makes an hourly close above $78,232.

  • BTC: $78,622 → $79,107 → $80,053.

  • ETH: $2,327 → $2,337 → $2,377.

  • This scenario is wrong if: BTC falls back under $77,337 on an hourly close within a day.

  • The yellow band is $78,154 to $78,310. The sell-order stack around the weekly open sits inside it, so a close there needs a second look.

B · Range: BTC stays between $77,424 and $78,154.

  • BTC: that band, about 1% wide, with the current price inside it. ETH: $2,272 to $2,327.

  • This scenario is wrong if: BTC has a daily close (tonight 7 p.m. ET, Thursday 00:00 UTC) under $76,553 or above $78,762.

C · Break: BTC makes an hourly close under $77,337.

  • BTC: $76,553 → $76,239 → $75,601. ETH: $2,272 → $2,252 → $2,223.

  • This scenario is wrong if: BTC slips under Tuesday's close but the daily close is back above the weekly open.

  • The yellow band is $77,260 to $77,414. The biggest long cluster sits just above the trigger, so a dip into it is not yet a break.

  • On the way down, price first meets the Coinbase and Kraken bids just under the market, then the long clusters. The Kraken bid near October's low is the far one, and the last zone is last night's low.

What could drive each one. A: a soft ADP, a calm refunding and ISM services below expectations. C: a hot ADP or ISM, a heavy refunding, or a reversal in yields. Last night showed that a headline can move Bitcoin by 4% in hours, so I'm ranking A and C above B again.

Before the 8:15 a.m. ADP, in both directions:

  • If BTC closes an hour above the weekly open before 8:15, then the next zones are this morning's high and the Oct 24 low. A hot ADP would turn the weekly open back into a ceiling.

  • If BTC closes an hour under Tuesday's close before 8:15, then the next zones are Monday's low and Tuesday's low. A soft ADP would need to reclaim November's open first.

What I'd skip: the first 15 minutes after 8:15, 8:30 and 10:00 a.m., and the hour after Qualcomm and Arm. The first read of a data release is often reversed.

Premium: Whales & institutions

Five items, each dated, plus what I couldn't find.

1. ETF flows by fund, Tuesday Nov 3 (TFTC, checked 5:00 a.m. ET today; IBIT included): IBIT −$95.0M, Grayscale Mini Bitcoin Trust −$52.6M, BITB +$21.9M, FBTC +$6.8M, MSBT +$3.3M. Total −$115.6M, and the line sums. November so far is −$514.2M, and IBIT accounts for −$500.3M of it. TFTC shows ARKB and GBTC at 0.0 on both days and says that means no net creations or redemptions were reported. I couldn't verify that. The on-chain side of these flows is redemption plumbing (BlackRock wallets moving coins to Coinbase Prime), not BlackRock selling. I found no such transfers today, because Arkham blocked my request.

2. How much the average ETF buyer is up or down. Glassnode's US spot ETF cost basis was $81.5K on Oct 28. At today's price that's about 4% under water. The cost basis moves every day, so treat it as a snapshot.

3. CME positioning (CFTC, positions as of Tuesday Oct 27, released Fri Oct 30; OAK Research): leveraged funds are net short 3,979 contracts, a reduction of 963 from the week before and 42% down from the 6,852 short of Oct 6. Asset managers are net long 2,754 contracts, down from 2,999, roughly 13,800 BTC at 5 BTC per contract. Falling hedge-fund shorts can mean basis trades are being closed, which is money leaving the ETFs, not a bullish bet. This data is eight days old. The next report is Friday at 3:30 p.m. ET, covering Tuesday Nov 3.

4. Tether's claim. CEO Paolo Ardoino says Tether holds 150,000 BTC (about $11.5 billion). Decrypt notes that is about 50,000 more than Tether's reserve report shows (CoinDesk and Decrypt, Nov 3). It's a statement, not an on-chain confirmation, and I haven't seen the wallets.

5. Binance and Strategy. Binance's SAFU emergency fund spent about half its BTC, about $580 million (CoinDesk, Nov 3). I found no update on the 18,270 stolen BTC since Tuesday's edition. Strategy has filed nothing new since Monday's 8-K. Its average cost is in the key levels, and its next filing is the next check.

Not found today: CryptoQuant's whale-wallet holdings (the site returned an error), Arkham and Lookonchain whale transfers, purchases by Strive, Metaplanet, Twenty One, MARA and Bitmine, and the MSCI decision date for treasury companies. Q3 13F filings are due Monday Nov 16 and show positions as of Sept 30, before the Binance hack.

Premium: Options and funding check

DVOL is about 37.5 on Deribit, down from 39.7 at Tuesday's close. Implied volatility fell as the election uncertainty cleared.

Funding (OKX, 8h): BTC and ETH both eased from Tuesday but are still positive, so longs are still paying shorts after a night of liquidations.

Options: Paradigm told CoinDesk that about $660 million of BTC options blocks traded on election day, roughly $420 million of calls bought against $105 million sold. That's a bullish tilt in the blocks that traded, one firm's read of one day. The next monthly expiry is Nov 27.

Open interest rose even as the price whipsawed, which fits the liquidation clusters above: positions are being rebuilt on both sides.

What I'm watching

  • ADP at 8:15, the refunding at 8:30 and ISM services at 10:00.

  • Whether the weekly open flips from a ceiling to a floor, and what the stack of sell orders around it does.

  • Whether a fourth day of ETF outflows follows.

  • Binance's second snapshot, the full proof, and any move in the stolen coins.

  • The remaining election calls, and Thursday's Asian open.

  • Friday's jobs report and CFTC positioning.

  • The next scorecard is Thursday's edition.

— Pro Swing Trader

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