$QNT just lost -11.2% in one day — and took out three named support levels on the way down.
The afternoon started fine: grind $193–$199, poked the old $200 line at 16:00 UTC, rejected on the spot — close $197.31.
Then the tape gave up. 17:00 UTC: $197.25 → low $190.82 → close $192.72 on $1.02M — straight through the $192.55 chart support.
The kill hour was 20:00 UTC: open $191.34 → low $180.60 → close $183.02 on $2.12M, the day's biggest hourly bar. That's the Intel earnings flush hour — Q3 beat, Q4 guide killed, BTC -2.7% on $230M, same hour that washed LINK, ZRO, TAO and HBAR tonight. QNT ran ~4x weaker than BTC: macro provided the excuse, the weak tape did the work. No fresh Quant headline anywhere — the September Clearing House story is the backdrop, not news.
21:00 dead-cat high $188.24 — rejected on the spot. 23:00 UTC closed $182.89. The forming 00:00 hour printed $175.15, a new 24h low, live ~$177 — unclosed, so that's live tape, not a level.
The damage list: $196.53 (broken), $192.55 (broken), $187.50 (broken — the reclaimed floor from Oct 26's run to $223.96). Price is back inside the $174–178 dip zone — the exact shelf that held last week before the reclaim.
Rank #39, $2.57B mcap, 14.56M of 14.61M tokens out (99.6% — no unlock overhang), -58.7% off the $427.42 ATH. 1h RSI 30, under EMA20 $190.76 / EMA50 $194.30. The $200 line sits ~$23 overhead now. RSI 30 can stay 30 — catching knives kills accounts. Not a call, either way.
$177 into the Asia open — does the $174–178 dip zone hold like last week, or is tonight's 20:00 flush the start of the second leg?
The afternoon started fine: grind $193–$199, poked the old $200 line at 16:00 UTC, rejected on the spot — close $197.31.
Then the tape gave up. 17:00 UTC: $197.25 → low $190.82 → close $192.72 on $1.02M — straight through the $192.55 chart support.
The kill hour was 20:00 UTC: open $191.34 → low $180.60 → close $183.02 on $2.12M, the day's biggest hourly bar. That's the Intel earnings flush hour — Q3 beat, Q4 guide killed, BTC -2.7% on $230M, same hour that washed LINK, ZRO, TAO and HBAR tonight. QNT ran ~4x weaker than BTC: macro provided the excuse, the weak tape did the work. No fresh Quant headline anywhere — the September Clearing House story is the backdrop, not news.
21:00 dead-cat high $188.24 — rejected on the spot. 23:00 UTC closed $182.89. The forming 00:00 hour printed $175.15, a new 24h low, live ~$177 — unclosed, so that's live tape, not a level.
The damage list: $196.53 (broken), $192.55 (broken), $187.50 (broken — the reclaimed floor from Oct 26's run to $223.96). Price is back inside the $174–178 dip zone — the exact shelf that held last week before the reclaim.
Rank #39, $2.57B mcap, 14.56M of 14.61M tokens out (99.6% — no unlock overhang), -58.7% off the $427.42 ATH. 1h RSI 30, under EMA20 $190.76 / EMA50 $194.30. The $200 line sits ~$23 overhead now. RSI 30 can stay 30 — catching knives kills accounts. Not a call, either way.
$177 into the Asia open — does the $174–178 dip zone hold like last week, or is tonight's 20:00 flush the start of the second leg?
