Brothers, this is serious, the Tokyo interest rate hike alarm and that incomplete inflation report from Wall Street,
Like a whip twisted and entangled, striking at the nerve chains of every global market.
These two forces are in a life-and-death tug of war, one is entangled in when to release liquidity,
Another one has just turned off the tap and even started to pull back.
With strong bullish and bearish forces colliding, how will the market move? Let me clarify for you:
Last night's unexpectedly low US CPI was like a signal flare with a gap.
It is bright, but due to the lack of data collection for October,
No one can say for sure whether this brightness is real or just an illusion.
But it has indeed played a role: it has sharply stimulated the market's expectations for Federal Reserve rate cuts.
The dollar fell in response, gold surged, and risk assets rose. However, the Federal Reserve's own backyard is on fire,
The dot plot shows a slow descent path, but some officials are thinking 'there's no need to cut at all',
Some feel that 'the cuts are too slow'; this inflation report has given doves ammunition, but will hawks easily admit defeat?
They obviously won't; they need to see more data, especially from the labor market. So,
The story here is beautiful: the expectation of interest rate cuts is appealing, but the road is winding, and internal divisions are severe.
This is a force eager for easing but with unclear strength, an uncertain factor for the market.
At the same time, Japan's 'earthquake' and the break in the global arbitrage chain have already begun,
The Bank of Japan raised rates by 0.25%, but this number itself is not important.
Importantly, it symbolizes the end of an era that has lasted for decades.
The ultra-low or even negative interest rate yen is the largest and cheapest 'financing currency' in the global financial market.
Simply put, over the past twenty years, a large number of investment institutions, including Wall Street funds,
Their standard operation is to borrow low-interest yen to exchange for dollars or euros,
To invest in U.S. stocks, U.S. bonds, and even high-yield assets like Bitcoin. This is called 'yen arbitrage trading',
It is one of the important sources supporting global risk asset prices.
Now, the Bank of Japan's rate hike means two things:
First, the cost of borrowing yen begins to rise; second, expectations of yen appreciation strengthen.
This is a double blow for those massive arbitrage trading positions.
The logical chain has become direct and brutal: institutions holding yen liabilities,
Facing the risk of rising costs and currency losses, the most rational action for them is to close their positions.
How to balance? Sell the assets they bought with borrowed yen to pay back the yen debt.
Then, in the process of selling assets for liquidity, what will be sold first?
Often, these are assets with good liquidity, high volatility, and significant gains over the past few years.
Obviously, $BTC perfectly matches these characteristics.
So, it is fundamentally not 'Japanese retail investors' selling off,
Rather, it is the global macro funds passively, even panic-stricken,
Dismantling the leveraged towers they built on cheap yen.
Bitcoin in this chain is not 'digital gold',
but rather quality collateral and sources of liquidity.
Thus, the core contradiction in the current market is the game between these two forces.
Can the Federal Reserve's potential easing expectations hedge or even overshadow,
The global deleveraging pressure triggered by the Bank of Japan's tightening?
Currently, it seems the market is voting with its feet,
The power of the latter's withdrawal is evidently more direct and violent in the short term.
Looking at the technical side and market structure: a brutal re-evaluation of asset attributes.
The impact of the news will ultimately be etched on the market and change its structure.
During this time, gold has strengthened under central bank buying and safe-haven demand,
Yet Bitcoin has fallen sharply alongside U.S. tech stocks, clearly revealing a fact to the market:
In the current mainstream institutional pricing model, Bitcoin's 'risk asset' attribute,
Far outweighing its narrative as a 'safe-haven asset' or 'digital gold'.
When global liquidity tightens, and Japan begins to withdraw or the Federal Reserve delays rate cuts, expectations will tighten.
It will first be reduced as a risky position. This is a painful re-evaluation of asset attributes.
It's hard for many believers to accept, but this is the reality written in real money by the market.
For Bitcoin, it is both an 'identity crisis' and a significant challenge to its price.
Bitcoin has fallen from 126,000 to 87,000 now,
It is no longer just a technical adjustment, but a damage to trend and confidence.
Some key price levels mentioned, such as 70,000 and 94,500,
Its significance lies not in whether they are accurate but in what they represent in the market consensus.
Breaking through some important psychological thresholds and cost-intensive areas means that falling below previous lows opens up further downside space.
The upper region has accumulated a large number of trapped positions, and any rebound will face heavy selling pressure.
Currently, the technical picture depicts a clear bearish pattern that requires time or significant external force to repair.
This round of decline has a deeper background:
The cryptocurrency market itself is also changing; the approval of Bitcoin spot ETFs is a double-edged sword.
It has introduced massive funds from traditional institutions, making the market more closely linked with the traditional financial system.
The benefit is that it brings long-term stable buying, such as the continuous increase in holdings by institutions like BlackRock.
The downside is that market volatility is more synchronized with the macro cycle, making it more susceptible to global liquidity tides.
At the same time, an institutionalized market means that funds will be more focused on core assets with clear fundamentals and liquidity.
For example, $BTC ,$ETH the past model where a single story could make altcoins soar.
The space for survival will become increasingly limited; even if there is a bull market in the future,
It may also be structural, highly differentiated, rather than a comprehensive frenzy.
In summary: we are currently at a crossroads of policy divergence among major global central banks.
Japan has begun tightening, Europe is observing, and the U.S. is wavering on 'when to cut rates'.
This uncertainty itself is the biggest bearish factor. For the market:
In the short term, the arbitrage trading pressure caused by Japan's rate hike is very real,
The market needs to digest this part of the selling. Any rebound in the early stages may be seen as a shorting opportunity.
From a mid-term perspective, the trend depends on the outcome of this 'tug of war'.
If the U.S. economic data (employment, inflation) weakens quickly, forcing the Federal Reserve to cut rates aggressively,
Then liquidity may drown the market again. But if the U.S. economy remains resilient, the Federal Reserve will remain still,
If Japan continues to hint at further tightening, the contraction of liquidity will continue to suppress risk assets.
Of course, the story of Bitcoin as an emerging asset class is not over yet,
But its volatility will increasingly embed itself deeper into the global macro narrative.
It needs to prove to the market that besides being a 'risk asset',
How much weight does its unique value storage and asset allocation function truly hold?
Brothers, the storm has arrived; it is not cleaning out the weak but redefining the rules of the game.
Understanding the direction of the water flow is more important than blindly struggling in the water.
Every rate cut by the Federal Reserve is a gentle 'sugar rush';
Every rate hike is a brutal 'pulling of the needle'.
Those who don't understand the rhythm will ultimately become the little white mice at the mercy of this anesthetic experiment.
Rate hikes and cuts are the breathing of capital; every breath is accompanied by the suffocation of countless people.
You think you are trading the market, but in fact, you have long been traded by history.
Rate cuts mean more money, asset prices rise; rate hikes mean tightening money, asset prices fall,
Then comes the crisis, reshuffling, and starting over.
From 1929 to 1980, from 2008 to 2025, the script has never changed,
The only difference is the group of people being harvested.
Do you think you are smart? Sorry, history never rewards smart people.
It only rewards those who are patient, logical, and dare to go against the cycle.
Great traders never look at K-lines but at the pulse of the era.
I don't predict the market; I only understand human nature,
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