Why does Bitcoin keep dumping at 10 a.m. when U.S. markets open?
Once again, BTC wiped out nearly 16 hours of gains within 20 minutes of the U.S. market opening.
And this isn’t new — since early November, most of the sharp intraday sell-offs have lined up exactly with the U.S. open. We saw the same pattern in Q2 and Q3.
@zerohedge has been pointing to this for months, and his view is that Jane Street is the most likely player behind it.
When you study the chart, the pattern is almost too clean:
• A fast, aggressive sell-off right at the opening bell
• Price gets driven straight into liquidity pockets
• Slow grind back up afterward
That’s textbook high-frequency execution.
And it lines up with Jane Street’s profile:
• They’re one of the biggest HFT firms globally
• They have the liquidity, speed, and size to move BTC for short bursts
• They specialize in exploiting microstructure inefficiencies
The playbook looks straightforward:
1. Sell hard into the open
2. Knock price into liquidity zones
3. Buy back lower
4. Repeat daily
By doing this, they’ve quietly stacked billions in BTC.
Right now, Jane Street reportedly holds $2.5B in BlackRock’s IBIT ETF, making it their 5th largest position.
So the repeated dumps aren’t necessarily macro-driven — they’re likely the result of one dominant player executing a structured strategy.
And once these firms finish accumulating, the broader uptrend in $BTC should resume with even more strength
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