Before you trade
Today
BTC, funding, new listings, what followed past news, and the bot farm. Each figure carries the time it was read.
Summary built 17 Oct 2026, 11:42 UTC · refreshed every 5 minutes
BTC
| BTC price (spot) | 81,580.54 USDT as of 17 Oct 2026, 11:42 UTC |
|---|---|
| 24h change | −1.35% as of 17 Oct 2026, 11:42 UTC |
| Trend state (48 1h candles) | flat as of 17 Oct 2026, 11:42 UTC |
| 1-day ATR (14 closed days) | 2.59% · 2,110.13 USDT as of 17 Oct 2026, 00:00 UTC |
| 24h range | 80,809.25 USDT to 82,773 USDT · 2.41% as of 17 Oct 2026, 11:42 UTC |
Funding
| BTCUSDT perpetual | 0.003521% per 8h (3.86% a year at this rate) as of 17 Oct 2026, 11:41 UTC |
|---|---|
| ETHUSDT perpetual | 0.002927% per 8h (3.21% a year at this rate) as of 17 Oct 2026, 11:41 UTC |
Binance USDT-M, current period. A positive rate means longs pay shorts.
New listings
as of 17 Oct 2026, 11:37 UTC
Upcoming
No upcoming listing announced by the exchanges we read.
Recent (6 of 8)
- Bybit DNA (perp) · 16 Oct 2026, 11:45 UTC · Bybit announcement
- Bybit DRV (perp) · 16 Oct 2026, 10:30 UTC · Bybit announcement
- Binance RWUSD (spot) · 13 Oct 2026, 08:00 UTC · Binance announcement
- Upbit GTC (spot) · 12 Oct 2026, 10:30 UTC · Upbit announcement
- Upbit RSR (spot) · 12 Oct 2026, 05:05 UTC · Upbit announcement
- Bybit CT (perp) · time not stated · Bybit announcement
Not read successfully at this time: Upbit.
Times and pairs are the exchanges' own announcements, linked. Not a signal.
After the news
as of 17 Oct 2026, 02:21 UTC
- SEC press releases: BTC 24h after these stories shows no measurable difference from the same hours of the day (n=38).
- Regulation and legal: BTC 24h after these stories shows no measurable difference from the same hours of the day (n=139).
- Hacks, exploits and outages: BTC 24h after these stories shows no measurable difference from the same hours of the day (n=76).
- ETFs and institutions: BTC 24h after these stories shows no measurable difference from the same hours of the day (n=65).
- Stablecoins and CBDCs: BTC 24h after these stories shows no measurable difference from the same hours of the day (n=66).
- Tokenization: BTC 24h after these stories shows no measurable difference from the same hours of the day (n=37).
- Other news: BTC 24h after these stories shows no measurable difference from the same hours of the day (n=232).
- Official macro releases (Fed policy, BLS): measuring, 13 of 30 stories so far.
- Fed bank supervision: measuring, 23 of 30 stories so far.
- Protocol upgrades and unlocks: measuring, 27 of 30 stories so far.
- Exchange listings: measuring, 4 of 30 stories so far.
- Macro in the crypto press: measuring, 10 of 30 stories so far.
Measured history after past news, not a forecast. Each figure is BTC spot's move after past stories of one type, set against the same hours of the day in the same window. Headlines are typed by fixed keyword rules; price-wrap headlines written after a move are counted but never measured. Not used in any signal, veto or win rate.
Today's stories: News.
Bot farm
as of 17 Oct 2026, 11:42 UTC
Bot farm: day 1 of 30, measuring. Paper, simulated fills. 63 bots.
Paper trading with simulated fills on the Aleph Edge engine. Not live results: real fills, slippage, fees and outages differ, and are expected to be worse.
No ranking yet: 0.39 of 30 days since T0; engine-vs-simulator check (PREREG §6) not passed yet; 0 unit(s) meet the closed-cycle minimum; a ranking needs two.
Measured history and third-party reporting, not advice and not a forecast. Lab figures are historical simulations; the ghost track and the bot farm are paper simulations; none is a track record. Only dca_long_classic and dca_long_safe on the five most traded USDT perpetuals are treated as proven; on the 30 most traded the same settings lost money in two of three splits and the worst bot drew down 97.7%. No template is suggested for today: a test of choosing presets by market regime failed.