Momentum Trades

WHAT EXCHANGES ARE DOING: 3 MONTHS, NO SINGLE TREND 📜 The selling/accumulation index is sitting right in neutral territory — 51 out of 100. Over the past three months, $720B left exchanges and $696B came in: a gap of just $24B on nearly $1.4T in total flow. On the surface, the market looks frozen. Exchange by exchange, it's a different story. 🏦 Bitfinex — +$9B in deposits, almost a quarter of it from a single $2B transfer (USDT and ETH) 🏦 OKX — +$6.61B, also mostly client deposits 🏦 Coinbase — +$1.04B, mixed flows 🏦 Binance — −$4.67B net, despite mixed direction 🏦 Coinbase Prime — −$18.6M, clients leaning toward withdrawals ➡️ Bottom line: a near-zero net balance is the sum of opposing moves, not a quiet market. Bitfinex and OKX are building up deposits, while Binance and Coinbase Prime are seeing net outflows. This looks more like capital rotating between platforms than the market making one collective call — sell or hold. If you're tracking flows, don't just watch the headline index — watch which exchange is actually pulling money in or losing it. That's usually where the real story is.

Full position close ✔️✔️✔️ ⬛️ Trading on ByBit Momentum Trades | ArbSpread

$BR LONG Entry (limit order): 0.62120 TP: 0.71573 SL: 0.59015 Planned RR: 3.05 #trades ⬛ Trading on Bybit Momentum Trades | ArbSpread

📉 BTC short-term holders are losing their profit cushion The unrealized profit margin for short-term holders has dropped from 10% to just 7%. Tighter Fed policy and weaker spot liquidity are starting to weigh on sentiment. Recent buyers are rapidly watching their paper profits disappear. The P&L indicator for BTC flowing into exchanges is now approaching the critical neutral zone — meaning coins being sent to exchanges are moving there with almost no net profit. The real confirmation of short-term holder capitulation would come if this indicator breaks below zero. If it stays negative, it would mean weak hands are starting to sell BTC at a realized loss 👀 That’s the level I’ll be watching closely 📉 Momentum Trades | ArbSpread

👀ZEC. What's actually going on? A coin that a lot of people had written off long ago is suddenly back in the spotlight. Right now ZEC is trading around $1,366. That's +160%+ over the month, and over +2500% for the year.

And the most interesting part here isn't even the numbers.

Zcash has been around since 2016. Its core idea has always been simple: privacy🪞 Bitcoin shows transactions publicly. Zcash is built around zero-knowledge technology, which lets you verify transactions without revealing all the information about them. And now this old narrative has caught the market's interest again.

Plus ZEC has a max supply of only 21 million coins - the same cap as Bitcoin. Plus a halving. Plus there's renewed institutional interest around Zcash right now, including public statements from people at Paradigm saying they hold ZEC and view it as a privacy complement to Bitcoin.

And from there it turns into a pure market story: - volume kicked in. - shorts started getting flushed out. - price broke $1,000. - FOMO joined in.

And an old coin suddenly became one of the most talked-about stories in the market. But this is where I wouldn't lose my head. After a move like this, ZEC can swing very hard. A +20% day doesn't look unrealistic for it right now. So the story is interesting. Very interesting. But buying just because "it's already pumped this much" is a completely different story. Right now I'd be looking at more than just price - volume, how it reacts to corrections, and most importantly, whether interest in the narrative itself holds up once the initial hype cools off a bit.

❗️Because the most interesting thing about ZEC right now isn't even what it's already done. It's what happens if the market truly buys into this new Zcash story. And that's what I'd be watching especially closely. Momentum Trades | ArbSpread

$BR As price approaches the Order Block, there'll be a great opportunity to open long positions. Momentum Trades | ArbSpread

Top 2 crypto news for today - September 17, 2026. 🍸The US House of Representatives approved the first federal tax framework for crypto assets - this came a day after the Clarity Act stalled in the Senate. ₿ A House committee advanced a bill to enshrine Trump's Strategic Bitcoin Reserve into law. 🚀Circle launched the Arc blockchain mainnet - validators include BlackRock and Visa, with 10 billion ARC tokens issued. Momentum Trades | ArbSpread

Good morning everyone! Setups have been delivering moves lately. There will be trades today too ✅

$LSK LONG Entry (limit order): 0.69892 TP: 1.27402 SL: 0.54083 Planned RR: 3.64 #trade ⬛ Trading on BydFi Momentum Trades | ArbSpread

📈 Rate was raised, but the trade is going just fine. Closed part of the $ZEC position here — letting the rest run 👀 So far, so good 🔥 ⬛️ Trading on BydFi Momentum Trades | ArbSpread

$ETH SHORT Entry (limit order): 2514.21 TP: 2218.99 SL: 2615.00 Planned RR: 2.93 #trades SHORT Entry (limit order): 2514.21 TP: 2218.99 SL: 2615.00 Planned RR: 2.93 #trades

$ETH Locally set up bearish🐻 🔍The highlighted POI zone will offer a great opportunity to open short positions. ⬛ Trading on BydFi Momentum Trades | ArbSpread

📊 SMART MONEY IS BUYING ARBITRUM AND NOT SELLING BITCOIN 📜 Over the past 24 hours, Smart Money bought $8.51 worth of ARB across three spot trades — and scooped up $7.44M in Bitcoin in one go. ARB — +$8.19M BTC — +$7.44M LTC — +$866K WETH on Base — +$283K ETH — −$1.06M ➡️ Not a single Smart Money wallet is selling BITCOIN The "actively selling" column stayed empty all day — and BTC is no exception. Five trades. Three wallets. Zero sales. Yesterday only one address was active in Bitcoin; today there are three — accumulation is broadening. ➡️ Over 80% stayed in wallets Smart Money bought $10M worth of alts and sold just $968K. Out of $11M in total turnover, $9.05M stayed in wallets — over 80%. ➡️ ETH is the only one in the red Ether leads in trade count — 58 of 76 — with $16.6M bought and $17.7M sold, a net of −$1M. The busiest coin of the day, and the only one that closed negative. Momentum Trades | ArbSpread

🚀 Taking a long on $ZEC Nice bullish accumulation structure with solid upside potential. Looks like this setup could be preparing for another explosive move higher 👀📈 ⬛️ Trading on BydFi Momentum Trades | ArbSpread

Tonight we've got a lot of work ahead because of the Fed's rate decision.

Stay alert and everyone stay tuned❗️

Drawdown: a test not of your deposit, but of your discipline📉 Your deposit drops 15% - and suddenly you want to change everything: the setup, the timeframe, the position size. It feels like the strategy is broken. In reality, drawdown is just the math of your system, not a reason to panic. If you honestly backtested your strategy, you knew drawdown would come - the only question was its size. The system doesn't break. What breaks is the trader who starts trading on emotions instead of rules the moment it hurts😏 Drawdown doesn't test your strategy. It tests whether you'll still believe in it when it actually hurts. Momentum Trades | ArbSpread

Opened a long on the breakout. Waiting it out☹️