Tonight’s EIA inventory numbers were interesting: the forecast called for a 1.7-million-barrel build, but crude inventories actually fell by 3.2 million barrels. Even the API showed a 2.09-million-barrel draw yesterday, so the two reports lined up.
Refined products were less cooperative: gasoline was expected to draw by 1.7 million barrels, but instead it built by 400,000; distillates were forecast to fall by 2.1 million barrels, but barely moved. The inventory draw wasn’t exactly across the board.
The market, though, couldn’t be bothered to dwell on the details. WTI climbed above $90, with Brent near $102. News of Houthi attacks on a Saudi airport and a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz is still unfolding, and the geopolitical premium has overshadowed the inventory figures.
Crude is tight, while refined products are weak. Before chasing oil higher in this kind of market, it’s worth thinking twice. Take it one step at a time. (Not investment advice.)
More than $400 million in positions liquidated in one hour. The bulls today are probably cursing up a storm 🤣
Yesterday, everyone was posting about the US stock market hitting new highs. Then the market did a complete about-face at the open: the Dow dropped 450 points, and the 10-year Treasury yield surged to 5.36%, its highest level since 2002.
$BTC fell from around 87,000 to below 84,000, briefly touching 83,600. Liquidations over the past 24 hours hit $547 million. ETH slipped to around 2,600, while DOGE plunged 4.5%. Everyone took a hit—no one got off easy.
Same old script: Brent crude climbed back above 101, the Houthis bombed two Saudi airports, and a hurricane is headed for the Gulf of Mexico. Oil and bonds are both pushing higher, putting risk assets in a headlock.
The more glorious the S&P 500 and Nasdaq looked yesterday, the rougher they look today. Anyone who got itchy fingers and chased the rally is probably already lining up on the rooftop.
Here’s an interesting bit: the FT says SpaceX plans to raise $40 billion to buy NVDA chips. The AI arms race keeps ramping up—the figure makes my scalp tingle.
The FOMC minutes drop at 2 a.m. Let’s see what they say before jumping to conclusions tonight. Better to ride out a dip than get stuck at the top. Take it one step at a time.
After a long rally, the semiconductor sector finally took a breather in yesterday’s premarket—but whether this is a healthy pullback or a sign of a market top should become clear as soon as U.S. markets open tonight.
In Tuesday’s premarket, INTC, AMD, $MU , $SNDK , and SOXX were broadly down slightly. The only one still rising was $NVDA . The backdrop: after a string of gains, the Nasdaq closed at a record 27,477 on Monday, while $NVDA climbed 2.1% to a record closing price, putting its market cap at $5.76 trillion. Some divergence at these levels is perfectly normal.
Memory remains the main battleground. Micron’s results at the end of September were explosive: Q4 revenue of $54.23 billion and full-year revenue of $133.19 billion were both records, with a gross margin of 86.8%. Management pushed the peak of the supply-demand crunch in memory back another year, saying 2027 and 2028 would be “tighter” than 2026. Wall Street responded by raising its estimates: Rosenblatt lifted its price target on $MU to $1,900, with Mizuho and Barclays following suit.
But here’s the interesting part: the stock pulled back after earnings were released. Investors taking profits after the good news—everyone knows this earnings-season script.
SK Hynix has also had a rough few days. Foreign investors have been pulling out of South Korean memory stocks, while Samsung’s HBM share has climbed to 33%, pushing SK Hynix down to 50% (Counterpoint’s Q2 data). Analyst opinions are also divided: at the end of last month, Bernstein slashed its price target to 2.7 million won, citing concerns about HBM4 delivery progress; NH Investment & Securities, by contrast, maintained its Buy rating and set a target of 3.4 million won. On top of that, buyback support expires in mid-October, making the near term less comfortable.
Tonight, watch three things: whether SOXX can hold above 590, whether $NVDA ’s new high attracts follow-through buying, and whether buyers step in after $MU ’s pullback. When fundamentals are pointing one way and prices another, volatility only gets amplified—don’t get reckless with your position sizing.
Binance rolled out Binance Intelligence over the past couple of days.
Simply put, it packs a whole AI toolkit into the app: a free news assistant, AI Pro that turns plain English into strategies, and Agent OS for developers to connect external AI tools.
My first instinct was to check out AI Pro. You can just type, “Help me monitor unusual movements in my positions,” and it turns that into a strategy flowchart. You can even run it on a demo account first—no coding needed. That’s perfect for lazy people like me. Wow… In the past, you’d have had to write your own scripts or pay for a strategy.
When it comes to funds, each strategy has its own sub-account, and you have to transfer money into it manually. AI can’t withdraw funds, and key actions still need your approval. In other words, AI can only operate within the boundaries you set.
The free news assistant puts out a briefing every 4 hours, covering crypto, stocks, and macro trends. You can even listen to it, so just tune in on your commute and you’ll be all caught up for the day.
AI Pro won’t launch until the second half of October, so I’ll give it a try then~
This is my 10th Mid-Autumn Festival spent with Crypto—time really flies🌕
When I was a kid, celebrating Mid-Autumn meant sitting with my family, eating mooncakes, and watching the moon.
Now, we still eat mooncakes and look at the moon. It’s just that sometimes I also casually open my phone and take a quick glance at the candlestick chart 👀
After all, Crypto has no opening bell, and no closing bell.
In Asia’s late night, Europe’s early morning, and the Americas’ daytime—people around the world can trade in the same market.
While you’re watching the moon, someone may be placing an order; when you’re getting ready to sleep, another market is just starting to come alive.
Different time zones, yet staring at the same candlestick chart.
It’s kind of amazing, really—
I used to think trading was only between myself and the market. But later I realized that behind a single candlestick chart, there are people connected from all over the world.
Some trade in the dead of night, some check the charts in the morning, and some—like me—while celebrating Mid-Autumn, can’t help but sneak a glance at the行情.
🌕 The moon is always full every year, and the market keeps changing too.
And wherever we are, we look at the same moon— and the same 24/7 market that never stops.
I guess this is what I understand as “We share the same moment across the horizon.”
This Mid-Autumn, I hope everyone gets to eat mooncakes—and also has some meat to chew on in the market 😋
We share the same moment across the horizon; trading has no time difference.
🌕 Which Mid-Autumn Festival is it for you spent with crypto this year?
Choose a theme to write an article or create a creative video or comic, and join the “Binance Mid-Autumn Story Collection” ⬇️
🌃 The moon rises over the sea in brightness: Share your story with the crypto world and Binance. 🌌 We share this moment across the horizon: Your connection to or imagination of “trading without time differences,” or the links between global financial markets.
You don’t need to send me mooncakes for the Mid-Autumn Festival 🥮 I still haven’t finished the ones you drew for me before $ZEC 1545 has been added to the army—don’t let me down
🌕 Binance Mid-Autumn Lantern Riddle Event is here!
Solve 4 lantern riddles about product features—get it right and you can win merch + share 1000U 😋
My answers are here first 👇
1️⃣ bStocks 2️⃣ Binance AI 3️⃣ C2C 4️⃣ Binance Wallet
While the stock market is on break, it still keeps running. The AI agents help you monitor the market and trade—acting as a bridge between buying and selling. With a key in hand, you can explore the entire on-chain world.
So when you put it that way, isn’t this basically just Binance every day?~
Can’t fall asleep easily as soon as I start taking orders—staying up late... For my health and to go to bed early, I’m going to reduce how many orders I take 😠
Today I talked with a 19-year-old college freshman, and I was honestly pretty shocked!
He can earn 2k a day. And before he’s even officially started university, he’s already started researching what new students need, building communities, doing operations, and accumulating users.
I thought he was just a guy who knows how to make money. But when we got deeper into the conversation, I realized the thing I truly admire isn’t how much he makes right now—it’s that at his age, he already has a strong awareness of needs and the drive to take action.
He actively seeks out demand and traffic, and also figures out how to turn one-off opportunities into something that can be built up and accumulated over time.
Most importantly, he isn’t stuck at the stage of “I want to do something.” He’s actually already jumped in.
Go try it. Go run the numbers. Go accumulate the first batch of users and resources. Whether he can grow big later is another story—but at least he’s already taken a step ahead of a lot of people who just think and don’t do.
Their advantages aren’t just having more time and lower costs of trial and error. It’s also that they’re willing to try, willing to mess around, and once they spot an opportunity, they’re ready to act.
Sometimes this kind of execution power matters more than so-called experience.
Of course, making money in the short term is only the beginning. Whether he can gradually turn these things into his own abilities still depends on continued execution going forward.
But no matter what, at 19, he’s already started working on demand, building communities, and managing his own circle—this kind of awareness is truly rare.
This “make money” mindset is really way stronger than mine was back then 🥲
🎁 $BNB ✨ I haven’t been making many orders lately—I’ve been busy focusing on a healthy lifestyle and going to bed early and waking up early. The baked goods don’t look very good, but they taste amazing 😋