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Reading
On the financial press agenda this week: macroeconomics · Bitcoin · geopolitical tensions · regulation · monetary policy.
The economic problem of society is thus not merely a problem of how to allocate “given” resources [...] It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only these individuals know.
— Friedrich Hayek, Austrian-British economist and philosopher (1899-1992)
III
Of Institutional Flows
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◆ Verdict · Friday 18 September session
Bullish conviction.
Bitcoin draws $433mn as its price rises 1.18%: conviction holds. Among altcoins, flows follow the move (+2.45% to +3.21%).
Sunday's close placed Zcash at $1,509.13, with its momentum reading of 69.7 — a figure that leaves it a mere 0.7 per cent from overbought territory. Of the assets surveyed, it stands alone in that proximity, and the contrast with its peers is instructive: Bitcoin closed at $81,178.00 with momentum at 64.0; Ether at $2,645.21, at 66.1; BNB at $772.56, at 67.7. All three are advancing, yet all retain meaningful distance from the threshold that would signal extension.
The broader picture is one of measured progress. Solana closed at $111.17, its nearest support some 26.8 per cent below — a reminder of how much ground was recovered from lower levels to reach the current position. TRX, at $0.3427, sits only 1.8 per cent above mid-range momentum, making it the quietest of the group by that measure.
Institutional conviction, evident in the $433mn of net inflows into Bitcoin exchange-traded funds recorded on Friday the 18th of September, appears to have provided a floor rather than a catalyst. The sentiment barometer, at 56 out of 100, reflects a market that is neither restless nor complacent.