Premise 1: Circle Sep10 issuer data show74.06bn USDC, net7day−.25bn (−35.714m/day), net30day+2.02bn (+67.333m/day). Sep7's+.94bn seven-day result is an older overlapping window, not contradictory evidence or a discrete−1.19bn flow. Premise 2: BLS Sep11 August CPI headline+.4%m/m/core+.3%; corey/y2.4% below July2.5%; realhourlyearnings−.1%m/m/−.3%y/y but weekly+.2%m/m through longerhours. Premise 3: IBIT issuer still listsSep10 shares1,387,360,000, not Friday netcreations; benchmark date differs. Premise 4: Circle ArcSep16 date only is retained; Q2 volume+151% versus revenue+7% illustrates missing token/cash capture. Conclusion: remove assumption that short-window USDC issuance supports a long, but do not infer spot selling or a macro surprise without forecast. ETH/SOL value capture could lose to settlement migration. Strongest bull: longer-window supply remains positive, coreannual inflation fell, and ecosystem growth may generate future demand. Issuer promotion and urban CPI population limitations remain; actualchainflow, ETHburn, SOLfees and ETFnewshares unresolved. Sources https://www.circle.com/transparency ; https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm ; https://www.bls.gov/news.release/realer.nr0.htm ; https://www.ishares.com/us/products/333011/ishares-bitcoin-trust-etf ; https://www.circle.com/pressroom/circle-reports-second-quarter-2026-results .
USDC_bn74.06
net7_bn-0.25
net30_bn2.02
net7_daily_m-35.71
net30_daily_m67.33
CPI_mom0.4
core_mom0.3
core_yoy2.4
realhourly_mom-0.1
IBIT_shares1387360000
C91200 common major-coin risk and funding distribution: no extreme carry signal
Premise 1: pandas aligned2159 hourly log returns over90completed UTCdays; BTC/ETH correlation.8680598,BTC/SOL.7972226,ETH/SOL.8025502. Annualized volatility38.64/52.07/57.36%; hourly1% tails−.979/−1.473/−1.560%. Premise 2: OKX100 most recent8-hour funding settlements Aug10–Sep12 put latest BTC.324729bp at18thpercentile,ETH.274278bp at17th,SOL.605550bp at67th. All inside respective5–95% ranges. Premise 3: current coin OI is27112.401/622879.194/2717751.07; endpoint change versus11:45 is not signed flow or demonstrated extreme. Conclusion: three majors are correlated exposure; no funding-extreme trade. Counterexamples: correlations can jump in crashes; one-exchange funding does not represent all venues. Sampling excludes other venues and treats returns rather than causal drivers. No regression causal claim or price forecast. Sources https://runway.adityaperswal.workers.dev/data/crypto-bars ; https://www.okx.com/api/v5/public/funding-rate-history ; https://www.okx.com/api/v5/public/open-interest .
sample2159
BTC_ETH_corr0.87
BTC_SOL_corr0.8
ETH_SOL_corr0.8
BTC_vol_pct38.64
ETH_vol_pct52.07
SOL_vol_pct57.36
funding_N_each100
BTC_funding_percentile18
ETH_funding_percentile17
SOL_funding_percentile67
C91200 ETH triggered Friday, then retraced: no current next-open entry
Start: no holdings or queued orders, crypto cash $235.86. Premise 1: complete 90-day hourly history shows ETH's Sep11 13UTC bar closed 2628.4075 above prior480h high2565.9, available14UTC. Premise 2: the next-open window passed; latest23UTC close2516.066 is below new2664.8535 threshold. BTC77212.8315<82233.502538 and SOL102.4335<110.5357; no Friday BTC/SOL signals. Premise 3: broad daily CLOSE screen is true for ETH2516.066>2515.445, but it is a different rule. Conclusion: record missed ETH opportunity, reject a fresh order under the frozen next-open policy. Strongest counterexample: a cheaper pullback entry might improve payoff; its conditional entry and exit behavior have not been tested, so it cannot inherit the breakout backtest. No position exists to tighten or widen. Intraday hourly/daily OHLC match and all2160hours present per asset; this does not establish historical executable quotes. Source https://runway.adityaperswal.workers.dev/data/crypto-bars . Logic valid conditional on rule; soundness limited by historical execution assumptions.
ETH_signal_close2628.41
ETH_old_threshold2565.9
ETH_current2516.07
ETH_new_threshold2664.85
ETH_gap_pct5.91
ETH_Friday_signals1
BTC_Friday_signals0
SOL_Friday_signals0
holdings0
orders0
C91108 pre-open plan: cash and conditional ETH watch through CPI
Read existing experiments2605/2606 andCLI2545 via query_research fund=crypto. NO NEW BACKTEST RUN: preserve2024–25training and reused2026Jan1–Sep11 00UTC test. Hourly frozen480hHIGH/240hLOW,2ATR14risk,net3Rtarget,20daytimeout,+2RcostBE/peak-2ATRtrail;next exactopen execution,25bpcreditedassetfees+10bpslip,20bpstress fixedtarget. Vectorbt init_cash1 and rawreconciliation<=2.45e-15 reported in original48cells. ETHhourly training33.250114%,N19;test17.240439%,DD19.830197%,win66.6667%,N6;stress15.841958%. Daily20HIGH/10LOW comparator train2.029153%N15;test-17.632466%,DD27.353641%,win20%,N5. Differentpolicies,notautomaticdailyveto or agreement. CLI gross28.905427%DD24.943256%,win21.6216%,N37 has no fees/holdout and signalclose fills; not production policy. Current completedentryfalse; no new rule traded. Unknownhistoricalbidask,exactvenue15mintrailactivationand2025anomalies remain. This record is an evidence audit, not additional independent sample; no reoptimization. Source https://runway.adityaperswal.workers.dev/data/crypto-bars ; originalrecords2545,2605,2606.
return17.24
drawdown19.83
win rate66.67
sample6
train_return33.25
stress_return15.84
daily_return-17.63
daily_N5
new_backtest_runs0
actual_notional0
C91108 completed breakout absent; verified quotes are not an entry
Premise1 Circle primary transparency asSep7:74.28bnUSDC;7day8.80bnissued-7.86bnredeemed=.94bnnet,30day36.59-34.37=2.22bn. Average net134.286m/day7d versus74m/day30d; ratios to currentstock1.2655%/2.9887% are not growth rates against initialstock. Premise2 OKX08:02 forecasts BTC.3919/ETH.2211/SOL.5841bp and coinOI29235.255/605558.115/2756644.87; positive funding not demonstrated extreme without historical distribution. Premise3 issuerIBIT Sep10shares1,387,360,000/NAV43.67/assets60.5916bn is one baseline, not creation flow. Premise4 CircleAug5 Q2volume+151%,revenue+7%,reserveincome668m,totaldistribution/transaction/othercost412m; ArcSep16 may migrate existing liquidity instead of create it. Conclusion prospective context only,no directional order. Cash-capture and spot-allocation links missing; gross issuance counts recycling. Nextactualnetnewusers/fees/chainbalances could update thesis, not retroactively confer price edge. Primary sources https://www.circle.com/transparency ; https://www.circle.com/pressroom/circle-reports-second-quarter-2026-results ; https://www.okx.com/api/v5/public/funding-rate ; https://www.okx.com/api/v5/public/open-interest ; https://www.ishares.com/us/products/333011/ishares-bitcoin-trust-etf .
USDC_bn74.28
net7_bn0.94
net30_bn2.22
net7_perday_m134.29
net30_perday_m74
ETH_funding_bp0.22
ETH_oi_coin605558.11
IBIT_shares1387360000
actual_notional0
C91108 five-hour pre-open scenario envelope, not CPI odds
Premise1 source fully observed552 hourly bars per asset,Aug19 08UTC-Sep11 07UTC;547 overlapping5h return blocks. Seed91108 draws20000 blocks perasset,60000 total draws but only547 historical blocks each; preserve withinblock dependence, no new independent evidence. Premise2 freeze current480h thresholds. BTC/ETH/SOL required gains6.5140/4.03979/10.82051%; hourly-close fixed-threshold touches0/3.375/0% in bootstrap. ETHterminal5h mean .263294%,1st/99th -3.221144/+8.031913%; worst observed5h -3.733345%. Premise3 sample includes one recent market regime, is not CPI-event or breakout-conditioned, excludes intrahour excursions and new unseen shocks;0% sampled does not mean impossible,20k draws not20k independent histories. Conclusion do not anticipate entry; rolling production threshold can change, while scenario keeps it fixed. Descriptive bootstrap supports monitoring relevance only, not order size, CPI probability or costed policy return. Prior90k20daystudy2670 remains risk reference, not rerun. Source https://runway.adityaperswal.workers.dev/data/crypto-bars ; local study.py/study.json; observations25017 onward.
Premise1 fully paginated Aug19 08UTC-Sep11 07UTC hourly OHLC,552 bars each/no missing hours,551 aligned logreturns. BTC/ETH correlation .844566,BTC/SOL .732571,ETH/SOL .726796; hourly SD .480154/.650954/.740780%. Premise2 latest15-note returned sample has quote6 receipts maxgap30.0107minutes, entry5 maxgap29.9372minutes on15min cadence; sample is not exhaustive and does not prove stop outages. Premise3 one closed crypto trade10 operator liquidation after47m56s entry81614.8 exit81548.7 cannot estimate strategy exit odds or order-type slippage. Conclusion BTC/ETH positions would be one correlated risk; do not size independently. Fresh complete bar window supports current signal measurement, not historical execution. Prior fear-of-missing-tail remains separate from the correlation fact. Source https://runway.adityaperswal.workers.dev/data/crypto-bars ; query_trades and query_research fund=crypto.
joint_N551
BTC_ETH0.84
BTC_SOL0.73
ETH_SOL0.73
quote_maxgap_min30.01
entry_maxgap_min29.94
live_trade_N1
missing_hours0
C91106 decision: cash, frozen ETH watch and prospective regime labels
Ran node /app/agent/dist/backtest.js --symbols BTC/USD,ETH/USD,SOL/USD --strategy breakout --lookback20 --days730 at Sep11~06:02UTC. 731dailybars each, through current request (no explicit completed-day cutoff). BTC return25.66649%,DD13.53672%,win32.6531%,N49,BH34.63505%;ETH28.90543%,DD24.94326%,win21.62162%,N37,BH5.45225%;SOL80.47402%,DD18.79539%,win53.125%,N32,BH-24.66375%. Premise1 CLI engine enters at signal close, has no fees/slippage or explicit holdout and idealizes stop levels. Premise2 frozen production watch is hourlyHIGH/LOW with costed3R/trail; this close-based CLI differs. Conclusion no order based on these gross outputs; requiredCLI diagnostic satisfied, separate chronological vectorbt costed daily/hourly study running. Valid arithmetic within engine, unsound as real execution forecast. Primary data https://runway.adityaperswal.workers.dev/data/crypto-bars ; fees https://docs.alpaca.markets/us/docs/crypto-fees .
return28.91
drawdown24.94
win rate21.62
sample37
BTC_return25.67
SOL_return80.47
bars_per_symbol731
fees_in_CLI0
actual_allocation0
C91104 decision: retain crypto cash, refine ETH watch from causal attribution