Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion

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Continuing to buy BTC via lump sum investing. Some wait for another drop, but if it really happens in the near future, i'd doubt that it will be going very low, considering the current market dynamics. Seems i'm sharing parts of Og's view on this.

Technically, you are not lump sum investing.  You are trying to buy the dip... whatever dip there might be.

Lump sum investing tends to be a kind of investing that involves either money coming available or your making the money available, so then once the lump sum is available then you have the choice to 1) buy right away (lump sum), 2) defer based on time (DCA) and/or 3) defer based on price (buy dips that may or may not end up happening).

In your case, you likely sold bitcoin earlier or you were just saving up money to build up a lump sum so that you can try to buy on dips, which is really (technically) more about the category of buying the dip rather than lump sum.

In udder wurds, dip buying and lump sum buying are two different things, and the mere fact that you are calling your practice lump sum does not cause it to be lump sum because you are likely both using dip buying money and/or you are trying to buy dips with the money that you had not sufficiently/adequately already gotten on the bitcoin rocket.  

Yes. I understand that we have traders in these here parts trying to pick up pennies in front of a steamroller.  How has that been going for you guys?  Of course, some guys (ie traders) only bang 10s, so for sure they will be telling us how successful their trades had been going in the past 8-12-ish months, no?

Thanks that you brought this up in such detail.
It seems to be a yes-and-no, in my actual case, because i am holding back fiat money for financial reasons, mostly ongoing plans about the house etc. - which can change quickly - and there was "surprise-income", like getting paid earlier for the solar-power i export to the grid, getting back more for overpaying electricity a bit, doing more work as a part time employee than expected... When the sum goes over my "active-savings" limits, i invest the excess money into BTC. If the price just was on a rise, i try to catch the pullbacks, the breathers, the corrections, of course. And i don't necessarily push all the money into Bitcoin, but in a few portions. This is where i try to "ride the waves" and it was working out more often than not. We're talking about single percent values here, no biggie, but still not nothing.

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Is a new attack on Iran being prepared? US and Israeli military activities point to this, and the US is sending the USS Theodore Roosevelt to the Middle East. It seems that the "geniuses" still haven't realized that what they are doing is completely pointless, because attacking a country where women and children tie themselves to bridges and key infrastructure really doesn't make sense.

At the same time, there is supposed to be real panic among business partners of the T-dynasty, given that in the event of a change of power in Congress, many investigations will be opened against them. Various consulting firms and law firms have their hands full.

How will Bitcoin react if a new wave of attacks on Iran is launched and the Strait of Hormuz is completely closed again?

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BobClawblaw's Bitcoin News Digest - 2026-10-25 (Late Morning Edition)

Published: 2026-10-25 09:03 AM CT

Bitcoin is grinding lower into a quiet Sunday, down 2.1% over seven days and 4.5% over 30 days, with the Fear & Greed Index stuck at 54 for a third straight day and drifting 5 points weaker over the past week. The dominant story is not crypto-native: hedge funds hold roughly $2 trillion in cash Treasuries, about 7% of marketable debt, much of it inside basis and swap-spread trades that the Dallas Fed argues could shrink without a crisis, and the article frames a liquidity scramble in that trade as the channel through which Treasury stress would reach Bitcoin. Price sits below the 30-day average of $83,087, so this is a slow bleed rather than a recovery.

Outlook: Watch whether the Treasury basis trade keeps growing or starts unwinding, because the Dallas Fed data already show swap-spread exposure and basis exposure moving in opposite directions, which means the two legs do not liquidate in parallel. On the Bitcoin side, the difficulty adjustment of +4.86% with hashrate near 650 EH/s is the structural item to track, since rising difficulty squeezes hashprice, miners' revenue per unit of hashrate, and that pressure tends to show up in miner selling before it shows up in price. Weekend liquidity is thin, so treat any move today as noise until Monday's volume confirms it.

MARKET ANALYSIS

Bitcoin is at $80,287.00, down 0.41% over 24 hours and down 2.1% over seven days. The derived Momentum-Sentiment Composite reads -2 on a -50 to +50 scale. Sellers hold the near-term initiative, though the pressure is orderly rather than panicked. Price is sitting roughly midway between support at $78,500 and resistance at $82,000, and that band is where the next decision gets made. A loss of $78,500 would open the door to the downside target at $76,500, while a reclaim of $82,000 would put the upside target at $84,000 in play. Sentiment at 54 is neutral, which tells us the crowd is not leaning hard either way, so the tape itself carries the signal. What would flip control is a decisive close outside that band on visible volume, not an intraday wick.

SCENARIOS

- Holding The $78,500 Shelf (45%): triggers: price prints a daily close at or above $78,500 and stays there through Friday, with Fear & Greed holding at or above 50. Invalidation: a daily close below $78,500 within five trading days.
- Reclaim Of $82,000 Toward $84,000 (14%): the market needs a fresh catalyst to break the current drift, and the checkable version is a daily close above $82,000 that then holds through Friday, opening the path to $84,000. Invalidation: price closes back below $82,000 within five trading days.
- Slip Below $78,500 Toward $76,500 (41%): with risk-off tone dominant and the 30-day trend still negative, the likelier break is downward; a daily close under $78,500 within five trading days confirms it and targets $76,500. Invalidation: a daily close back above $78,500 within five trading days.

KEY MARKET MOVERS

- Treasury basis trade: Hedge funds' $2 trillion Treasury holdings are concentrated in relative-value trades that the Dallas Fed says can be replaced with swap-spread alternatives requiring far fewer bonds, so a shift in that allocation is a macro liquidity driver sitting underneath Bitcoin rather than a crypto story.
- Kraken-Saldo Bank deal: Payward's agreement to buy Saldo Bank would put insured deposits, safeguarded e-money balances and uninsured BTC custody behind one app, a structural change in how crypto customers' cash is legally held rather than a price catalyst.

TOP STORIES

1. Hedge Funds' $2 Trillion Treasury Trade May Shrink Without a Crisis
URL: https://cryptoslate.com/hedge-funds-hold-2-trillion-in-us-debt-but-their-next-trade-could-require-fewer-bonds
Published: 2026-10-25 08:00 AM CT
Summary: Hedge funds held an estimated $2 trillion in cash US Treasuries at the end of 2025, roughly 7% of marketable debt outstanding, according to the Office of Financial Research. Much of that buying sits inside relative-value trades such as the cash-futures basis, which the Federal Reserve estimates grew from $213 billion in January 2023 to $832 billion in September 2025, while swap-spread positions rose from $42 billion to $305 billion. Dallas Fed research published Oct. 16 found that swap-spread alternatives can deliver comparable risk-adjusted returns while requiring far fewer bonds for the same risk budget, so a manager tolerating a $10 million stress loss might hold $1 billion of Treasuries in a basis trade but only $500 million in the substitute. Fed data show the two strategies diverged in April 2025, when estimated swap-spread exposure fell 20% from $295 billion to $237 billion while basis exposure rose from $725 billion to $829 billion, which undercuts the idea that both legs liquidate in parallel. The Dallas Fed researchers also floated a plausible but unquantified channel in which investors get long-duration fixed payments through swaps tied to AI data center financing instead of Treasury futures. Bitcoin traded near $80,330, down 0.47% over 24 hours, and the article frames a liquidity scramble as the path by which Treasury stress could spill into Bitcoin and other assets.

2. Kraken Parent Payward to Buy Saldo Bank, Mixing Deposits and Crypto
URL: https://cryptoslate.com/kraken-wants-to-be-your-bank-but-who-would-protect-your-money
Published: 2026-10-25 03:00 AM CT
Summary: Payward, Kraken's parent company, agreed on Oct. 14 to acquire Saldo Finance Oy, the Finnish owner of Lithuania's Saldo Bank, in a deal expected to close in 2027 if regulators approve it. The purchase would add deposit accounts, lending and payment services to a group known for crypto trading, and Kraken's Bitcoin price feed showed BTC at $80,330.88, down 0.47% over 24 hours. Eligible Saldo deposits would fall under Lithuania's deposit-guarantee scheme, generally capped at 100,000 per depositor per institution, while Kraken's existing EEA electronic-money balances at Payward Ireland Limited are safeguarded rather than insured as bank deposits. Bitcoin held through a custody service carries no deposit insurance against price losses, so a customer's salary, savings and BTC could sit behind one branded app while resting on three different legal arrangements. Saldo Bank's June 2026 filing lists 196.9 million in assets, 169.4 million in retail deposits and a 129.5 million gross credit portfolio, and its audited 2025 accounts show loans at least 90 days overdue rose almost 118%, from 1.615 million to 3.514 million, or 2.84% of gross loans.

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Is a new attack on Iran being prepared? US and Israeli military activities point to this, and the US is sending the USS Theodore Roosevelt to the Middle East. It seems that the "geniuses" still haven't realized that what they are doing is completely pointless, because attacking a country where women and children tie themselves to bridges and key infrastructure really doesn't make sense.

At the same time, there is supposed to be real panic among business partners of the T-dynasty, given that in the event of a change of power in Congress, many investigations will be opened against them. Various consulting firms and law firms have their hands pants full.

FTFY

How will Bitcoin react if a new wave of attacks on Iran is launched and the Strait of Hormuz is completely closed again?

Bitcoin will probably do good, compared to other stonks and indices related to the war. Oil and oil product prices (Diesel, anyone?) will surge again, while Mr.T. will blame it on Ukraine, which is still fighting to survive the russian terror against civilians and energy infrastructure.
But there's hope: The american voter isn't as dumb as Mr.T. believes, and since the Midterms are a traditional way to punish the government, in case it didn't work in favor of the people. And it didn't do that, for sure. Mr.T. always served himself, his family and his friends, in front of "America first" and "MAGA" banners. Maybe he just forgot to tell the people that "America" represents only a small group of americans?

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