The CPI print was a big-cap event. HYPE's sellers came two hours late.

At 08:30 ET $HYPE turned 2.58 million dollars, 2.6x its prior hour. Bitcoin turned 6.5x its own prior hour. Macro prices big caps first; alts get repriced later. It bounced 0.52%, then 3.74 and 3.25 million went into lower lows.

Three free checks:
1. Hourly klines. Compare the print hour to the hours after. If your coin's biggest hour came later, the headline was not its event.
2. Dollars per point. $HYPE: 43.2 million over 5.62% is 7.7 million per point. $XRP is 32.2 million, 4.2x the cost for a smaller fall. $SOL, 37.5 million.
3. The 0.5% book. Bids 580 thousand vs asks 448 thousand, 12.8% bid-heavy. XRP is 24% ask-heavy.

I am staying out: rising dollars say supply, the bid-heavy book says support, and both cannot be right. If the band flips ask-heavy before the close, I'd drop that read.

Data as of today. Not financial advice.

Which do you trust: the resting bids, or the dollars arriving late?

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