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Hi everyone, I’m One Cup of Iced Tea. Here you’ll find daily crypto and macro market recaps.

Every day, you’ll see:

• BTC & ETH recaps — key levels and what to watch next
• Altcoin rotation — what’s behind the top gainers
• MEME moves — only tracking coins with real volume
• Major news — covered as it happens
• U.S. market close — SPY/QQQ, semiconductors, and what it means for crypto
• Commodities — gold, silver, and crude oil
• Earnings season previews and recaps

My approach: explain the logic and give you key levels. No calls to buy or sell, no guarantees, and no paid groups.

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Not investment advice. DYOR.

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🚨 $MUBARAK 2-hour trading volume surged 5x! Price pumped then dumped within an hour—was someone wash trading?

Honestly, I was stunned when I first checked the charts: over the past 2 hours, average hourly trading volume was around $3.5 million—more than 5x the 7-day hourly average. 24-hour trading volume was $9.1 million.

Current price: 0.0725, down 4.5% in 24 hours. In the previous hour, it got slammed straight from 0.0783 to 0.072, leaving a pretty nasty wick.

On the chart: the red dashed line at 0.0783 marks the level it just fell from, and the green dashed line at 0.069 marks the low it retested two days ago.

· Re-entry zone: 0.069–0.070, but wait for it to stabilize
· Resistance: 0.0783, 0.0795
· Invalidation: exit if it breaks below 0.069

A volume spike doesn’t mean the price has to go up. This kind of coin can make three round trips in a day—keep your position size under control and don’t go all in.

Do you think this is a shakeout or distribution? Pick one in the comments 👇

⚠️ Just my personal rambling; this is not investment advice.
#MEME #MUBARAK

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NEAR is up nearly 7% in 24 hours, and 5.2 is back in sight 🚀

Honestly, none of the MEME coins had a surge in volume today; volume was subdued across the board, so I’ve been watching $NEAR . It’s around 5.18 now, with roughly $125 million in 24-hour trading volume, making it the hottest among these coins.

Looking at the chart: the green dashed line at 4.8 marks a level that’s been retested several times over the past few days, while the red dashed line at 5.3 marks where recent rallies have been rejected. Over the past two weeks, it’s mostly been ranging between 4.5 and 5.6. I don’t think it’s worth chasing the price.

· Entry zone: pullback to around 4.8–4.9
· Resistance: 5.3, then 5.5–5.6
· Invalidation: a drop below 4.6

High volatility—manage your position size, and don’t go all in. Do you think it can hold above 5.3 this time, or will it fall back to 4.8? Let’s discuss in the comments.

⚠️Just my personal ramblings; this is not investment advice.
#NEAR #Bitcoin rebounds to $83,000

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U.S. stocks have already bounced back, but crypto is still stuck in place? 10.10 early morning $BTC $ETH close-of-day recap | Bitcoin tested 83,500 twice in two days and got pushed back down both times

Honestly, I just finished watching the U.S. stock market close and I’m kind of speechless. U.S. stocks rebounded across the board on Friday, with the S&P just a hair away from a new high, but Bitcoin didn’t follow at all. It’s now around 82.3K, up only 0.6% in 24h.

The reason isn’t hard to guess: according to Farside data, BTC spot ETFs saw $729 million in outflows over the 7th and 8th, and ETH ETFs have had 8 straight trading days of net outflows, totaling $640 million. Institutions are pulling out, and retail can’t push it up.

See the chart below 👇 The red dashed line for BTC is 83,500. In the past two days, it went up there twice and got shoved back down immediately; the green dashed line at 80,400 is this week’s low.

ETH is a bit weaker, around 2480, and it drops as soon as it touches 2520. ETH/BTC has fallen to 0.030, so this round Bitcoin is still holding up better.

My take: weekend volume is light, don’t chase in the middle, wait for the right levels —
· Entry zone: BTC 80,400–81,000 / ETH 2410–2440
· Resistance: BTC 83,500 / ETH 2520, 2590
· Invalidated: if BTC breaks below 80K decisively / ETH breaks below 2400, don’t hold on stubbornly

Only when it gets above 83,500 will the bears really start feeling pain. Before that, it’s just grinding. Next Wednesday’s CPI is the real directional signal. Anyone going all-in now is a warrior 😅

Do you think this weekend we’ll first wick down to 80K, or first break above 83,500?

⚠️ Just my random rambling, not investment advice.

#Bitcoin rebounds to 83K #BTC

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MUBARAK｜The MEME sector is asleep, and it’s the only one quietly climbing the stairs 🐪

I just took a look at Binance spot MEME coins. Honestly, the whole sector is pretty laid-back tonight—big names like DOGE and PEPE are only up 2–4% over 24 hours.

But!!! $MUBARAK is the biggest gainer among MEME coins 👇
✅ Current price: around 0.0756 (data from a little after 11 p.m. on 10/9)
✅ 24h: +5.9%; intraday low 0.0706 → high 0.0782
✅ It closed at just 0.0532 on September 27, up about 42% in less than two weeks
✅ Its low was around 0.015 two months ago; it’s now nearly 5x 🤯

Put simply: this isn’t a one-off spike—it’s been steadily climbing, step by step.

Why am I watching it?
1️⃣ The chart structure looks good: It surged on high volume on 10/4 and 10/5, reaching around 0.079. Since then, it’s repeatedly pulled back without breaking 0.07, and the lows keep rising.
2️⃣ Purely sentiment-driven: It came from BNB Chain’s Four.meme, with a Middle East narrative and the community CTO shilling it. Price action is all about sentiment, so it’s highly volatile.
3️⃣ There are futures markets, and both longs and shorts are active, so volatility won’t be low.

But let me pour a little cold water on this 🧊
❌ Today’s volume is only a little over $10 million, while the 10/4–10/5 rally saw $20 million+. Price is rising, but volume isn’t keeping up—beware of a low-volume topping pattern.
❌ It’s been rejected several times around 0.078–0.080—that’s a tough ceiling to crack.
❌ It’s a pure MEME coin. Without a new story, it could come crashing down, so don’t get carried away.

My game plan 📝
🟢 Support: 0.0705–0.072; below that, watch 0.065
🔴 Resistance: 0.078–0.080; if it breaks through on strong volume and holds, watch 0.0875 (the two-month high)
👉 I’ll only consider the second leg of the rally underway if it gets above 0.08. If it falls below 0.07, I’ll consider this run over and won’t stick around.

Keep your position size small with MEME coins, always use a stop-loss, and definitely don’t go opening high-leverage futures positions recklessly 🙏

⚠️Just my personal ramblings; this is not investment advice.

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MEME Trending｜$TRUMP is trending again, but this time I’m not chasing 😅

I checked the trending list today, and TRUMP is still leading the pack among MEME coins. It’s the second most-searched coin on CoinGecko, up about 4% in the past 24 hours, and trading around 1.85.

Why is it hot again?
The team is hosting another dinner! The November 22 dinner in Washington is open to the top 185 holders, with VIP access for the top 29. The top 4 even get an 18K gold watch ⌚

The key detail is that rankings are “time-weighted” and tracked through November 12—
In plain English: you need to buy a lot and hold for a long time. Sell along the way and you drop off the list.
This setup is designed to lock up tokens, which could support the price in the short term.

But!!! Let’s look at the chart first 🖐🏻

📉 It was at 2.11 a week ago; now it’s at 1.85, down about 12% for the week
📉 It surged to 2.25 on the day the dinner was announced, but couldn’t hold; within days, all the gains were gone
📉 When the broader market plunged on October 7, it got slammed to 1.80, with a low of 1.735
📉 It’s now down 97% from its high of over $70 in January 2025

And here’s the painful part: the team and affiliated parties still hold around 80% of the tokens, and tens of millions of dollars’ worth of tokens were unlocked in September.
On one hand, they’re inviting you to compete for a seat at the dinner; on the other, someone’s getting ready to sell. You know how this story goes…

My take 👇
Support: 1.73–1.80. If it breaks below that, watch for around 1.60
Resistance: 2.05–2.10. It needs to get above that to have a chance of testing 2.25 again
In the short term, it’ll probably swing between 1.75 and 2.10. Around the November 12 tracking cutoff, we could see the old “pump it up → dump it” routine. That’s how things played out at last year’s dinner and this year’s Mar-a-Lago event.

✅ Want to trade the dinner hype? Keep your position small and set a stop-loss
✅ Want to swing trade? Watch the 1.75 and 2.10 levels
❌ Want to go all-in and buy the dip? Maybe take a moment to cool off first

MEME coins are an emotion-driven game: hype comes fast and goes just as fast. Don’t put your grocery money into it 😂

⚠️ Just my personal ramblings; this is not investment advice.

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The latest in the cola wars: Pepsi is lowering its outlook, while Coca-Cola is raising its 🥤😂

First, Pepsi’s Q3 👇
Revenue was $25.27 billion, up 5.6% and slightly better than expected; core EPS was $2.34, up just 2%.
Organic revenue grew 3.1%—its fastest pace in nearly two years—but that was mainly thanks to international markets (+8%). Snacks and beverages in North America are still trending down 😅
Margins also narrowed a little (16.9%), and the company cut its full-year EPS growth target to 2.5%–3.5%.
In a nutshell: steady, but not exactly exciting.

Now let’s put the two side by side for Q2 🥊
Pepsi: revenue +6.4%, organic revenue +2.4%, core EPS +4% (just +1% excluding currency effects), margins at 16.8%
Coca-Cola: revenue +7%, organic revenue +6%, volume +5%, EPS +11%, margins at 35.6% and still climbing
Coke mainly sells concentrate, which is an asset-light business, so its margins are more than twice Pepsi’s. And with the World Cup giving it a boost, Coke’s brand volume growth was the strongest in 17 years ⚽️

The share-price action also tells you a lot 📈📉
Coca-Cola: about 69.9 at the start of the year → about 88.0 now, up around 26% this year and not far from its 52-week high of 92.5. The stock jumped about 5% on the day of its Q2 earnings report.
Pepsi: about 143.5 at the start of the year → about 125.7 now, down around 12% this year and hovering near its 52-week low of 123.5. It bounced about 3.7% on the day of its Q3 earnings report, then gave some of that back the next day.
One is near a high, the other near a low: Coke is a case of the strong getting stronger; Pepsi is a turnaround story.

What clues did Coca-Cola leave us in Q2 about Q3?
• Full-year EPS growth guidance raised to 9%–10%, with organic revenue growth around +5%
• In Q3, currency is expected to add about 3% to EPS and 1% to revenue; asset sales are expected to reduce revenue by about 1%
• Q3 shipments are expected to grow a little slower than volume
• The second half faces a high comparison base, and Q4 has six fewer days

My back-of-the-envelope math 🧮
Last year’s Q3 revenue was $12.46 billion, and EPS was $0.82. Based on the clues above, I estimate:
Revenue of around $12.9–$13.1 billion and EPS of around $0.89–$0.91.
The market expects EPS of $0.88 and revenue of $12.9 billion. Coke has beaten expectations for eight consecutive quarters, so I wouldn’t be surprised if it edges past them again this time.
Two things to watch: Will sales hold up after the World Cup buzz fades? And will the company raise its full-year guidance again?

We’ll find out before the U.S. market opens on October 27. I’ll be back then to check how my predictions did 👀

(Personal musings and analysis; share prices are approximate intraday figures for October 9. These estimates are not company guidance and are for reference only—not investment advice.)

CPI and PPI are both heating up. At first glance, it looks like inflation is making a comeback. But this round of rising prices is not really related to overheating U.S. domestic demand, consumption, or wages. The main driver is energy.

The root cause is the continuing escalation of the geopolitical conflict between Iran and Israel. Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz is constrained, crude oil transportation routes are disrupted, and regional fuel supply is tight. This is an external, supply-side, pulse-like inflation shock. It is rigid price increases caused by war, shipping blockades, and supply-chain disruptions—not a sustained inflation surge generated by overheating in the U.S. domestic economy.

So, in essence, this rate hike is treating the current inflation problem with a bandage, not a cure.

What the Federal Reserve truly fears is not that oil prices might spike in the short term, but that this wave of external price shocks will transmit along the chain into goods, services, rents, and wages. Once that happens, a one-time pulse of inflation can turn into persistent, sticky inflation that cannot be brought down.

That is why they push the rate-hike button.

However, monetary policy has its shortcomings. Rate hikes cannot put out the fires of war, reopen shipping lanes through the strait, or repair damaged crude oil infrastructure. What it can do is to curb domestic total demand, cool consumption and investment, tighten credit, and offset the inflation imported from abroad by suppressing the domestic economy’s overheating.

In other words, when overseas wars push up oil prices, the U.S. counters by suppressing its own domestic demand to keep the inflation numbers under control.

That’s also the most contradictory—and most helpless—aspect of this round of policy. The Federal Reserve is essentially spending domestic economic resilience to defend against a geopolitical risk it can hardly control at all.

Interest-rate tools are good at dealing with inflation driven by overheating domestic demand, asset bubbles, and wage growth. But when faced with war-related blockades and energy supply gaps, the room for monetary policy to operate is very limited.

So, as long as the Middle East situation has not substantially eased and oil transportation through the Strait of Hormuz cannot be fully restored, oil prices could surge again at any time. Even if rate hikes stabilize short-term inflation expectations, the source of the risk still hangs overhead.

As long as the geopolitical conflict has not ended, the twin pressures of high oil prices and high interest rates will not disappear. Costs do not evaporate out of thin air; they are passed downward layer by layer, and in the end, the bill is still paid by real businesses and American households.

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Tonight’s FOMC｜I originally bet on “no rate hike,” but now I’ve changed my mind!

Honestly, I started out on the “keep rates unchanged” side.

Recently, the CPI and PPI have looked scary at first glance, but once you break them down, the biggest driver is Middle East fighting pushing up oil prices. That’s a supply-side issue. The Fed’s rate-cutting blade can’t cut through a battlefield. Once the conflict calms down, energy inflation will cool off on its own.

Plus, the election is right around the corner. If rates are hiked, mortgage payments, auto loans, and even groceries will all jump—regular people will immediately start cursing.

History also tells us this: before elections, the Fed basically plays dead. If they can delay, they absolutely delay—never start a fresh rate-hike cycle at this exact moment.

And U.S. Treasury yields are already flying high. If they add another push, global bond markets will have to shake three times. Who will cover cross-border financial risk? The Fed doesn’t want to take the blame for that either.

But！！！reality just slapped me in the face 🖐🏻

The CME FedWatch now has the probability of tonight’s 25bp hike at 92.4%.

If they really don’t hike tonight, the market’s first reaction will be—wait, did you get captured by the election? The little bit of credibility you built after taking office would evaporate on the spot.

Trump keeps shouting about rate cuts outside. Political pressure is definitely real. But for Powell, the words “Fed independence” matter more than anything. It cannot be nailed to the disgraceful pillar of being a “political puppet.”

So！！！

The most likely script tonight: a dovish “insurance” hike.

Hiking 25bp will meet market expectations, but will Powell’s press conference say something like “we still need to hike more within the year”? There won’t be a clear forward path—no promises and no sweet talk. Everything after that will depend on the data.

In plain human terms: this is a one-time protection fee, not the start of a new round of rate-hike cycle.

For risk assets and U.S. stocks, once tonight’s rate-hike headwind lands, the next phase is the beginning of a new round of asset repair.

After this move—

✅ Market expectations met
✅ Fed’s face is saved
✅ Asset prices won’t be hammered to pieces
❌ Trump: and what about me？？？

After it’s done, Powell will probably privately swing by with a bottle of ice-cold cola and bring a few beauties to apologize 😂

Powell’s inner OS: This chair is not a job that a normal person should do—neither left nor right.

⚠️ Just my random talk—doesn’t constitute any investment advice.

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