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Quant Daily — 27 Oct 2026

BTC market structure · 2026-10-27 UTC

BTC: $80,115

├ 50MA: $81,863 🔻

├ 200MA: $73,064 ✅

├ Realized: $53,552 (MVRV 1.50)

├ STH cost basis: $74,736

├ LTH cost basis: $48,714

├ RSI (weekly): 54.1

├ IBIT cost basis: $81,745

├ MSTR cost basis: $75,385

├ Production cost: $78,886

├ BTC/Gold: 19.8 oz

└ Fear & Greed: 48 (Neutral)

ETF 5d -112M$ / 20d -285M$ · CME fwd 0/4 LONG (все нейтральны) · CLLD 1d -0.42

CSP / CC(where selling puts / calls is structurally favourable)

Week    75000/85000
Month   70000/90000
Quarter 60000/100000

Weekly

Weekly (Oct 30 expiry, 3 DTE): Deribit dealers short gamma (−11.4M), spot 80.1k below the 80.3k flip — sharper moves, weaker pin; gamma mass sits right at 80k. IBIT: flip 80.4k, gamma ~flat (−0.9M) — both venues balancing on zero gamma at 80k.

BTC walls are far: call wall 95k (distant mass, not a weekly level), put wall 70k. Working levels are closer: 78k below (weekly max pain, fresh 78.1k zone, score 3) plus IBIT put wall 78.1k — IBIT's biggest build of the session (+6k); above, IBIT max pain 82.5k (its gamma too) and IBIT call wall 85.2k.

Deribit weekly book is unwinding (−406), 63–65k and 72k puts taken off, only 12% of new OI above spot — downside tail being shed, not built; IBIT is building a corridor 78.1k / 79.9k / 80.8k / 85.2k around price.

Weekly charm 5.3M (gross, 63% of mass above spot). Venues agree on flip (80.3/80.4k), diverge on magnets: BTC max pain 78k vs IBIT 82.5k.

Total

Book DEX 2.13B — ticked up after four days of shrinking (3.29 → 2.41 → 2.31 → 1.94 → 2.13B): dealer hedge still net long, but half of mid-October. Total book long gamma: flip 78.7k, max pain 78k. Vol premium regime is low — sold vol pays little, keep strikes wide.

Week ahead (beta)

Day 115 of history. Honest check: yesterday's 75–85k range holds — 79,969 → 80,115, the slide stalled: spot circles 80k gamma / 80.3k flip for a fifth day, the 78.0–78.8k node still untested; Oct 26 session flat, quiet. Only FOMC was flagged yesterday — it's tomorrow, nothing to score.

Base case: into Oct 30 a 75,000–85,000 range, core 78–82k — 80k holds but with sharp swings both ways: Deribit weekly short gamma, spot below 80.3k flip, IBIT near zero. FOMC Oct 28 is the macro event of the week — vol runs multiples of normal in its hours; that's scale, not direction, so range and strikes get extra room. Magnets diverge: BTC max pain 78k below, IBIT 82.5k above — post-event, spot gets pulled to one of them. −10% by Friday priced at ~1% — no crash in the book. Backdrop flat: light short squeezes on the day, neutral week, long liqs on the month; ETF last day inflow while 5d/20d net out; CME neutral; DEX up a touch.

Downside caveat: Coinbase premium is in deep discount — US spot demand weaker than the rest of the market; the next 24h after this tends to be softer (about tomorrow, not the week). One component down, structure not against it — slight tilt toward 78k for a day, not a weekly call. Slow trend still up with spot under MA50 — caveat against the tilt.

Bear trigger: acceptance below 78k (book flip 78.7k) opens 77–76k (monthly puts being built there) and 75.0k (monthly put wall + quarterly max pain + MSTR cost basis, fresh zone, score 3), then 72k and 70k.

Bull trigger: reclaim 80.4k and 81–81.7k (monthly max pain, MA50 + IBIT cost basis) opens 82.5k, 83.3k and 85.2k (IBIT call wall, above the week's 5% upper bound); 90k is the monthly ceiling, 95k is distant mass, not a target.

Alternative: FOMC pokes an edge (78k or 82.5k) and price snaps back to 80k into expiry — three straight sessions closed near 80k.

← 26 Oct 2026

Structure derived from deterministic market data. Not investment advice.