BTCUSD: bitcoin readings, with their outcomes
Here are the Meridian Engine readings on bitcoin against the US dollar, newest first, invalidated ones included. Today there are two: the no-trade reading of 1 October 2026, whose band broke to the upside at 18:00 UTC, and the reading of 9 August 2026, invalidated at 02:00 UTC by a condition stated at 00:09 UTC.
Updated 2026-10-02
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The readings
Band broken to the upside at 18:00 UTC
The engine found no edge either up or down and stood aside, stating the 83,304.1–84,443.6 band and the two hourly closes that would break it. The band held on a closing basis for more than seventeen hours; at 18:00 UTC an hourly bar closed at 84,819.7, above the top.
Checked on: BTCUSDT, hourly bars
The reading was invalidated at 02:00 UTC by a condition stated at 00:09 UTC
By 02:00 UTC the price had traded below 64,794.3, the prior day’s low: one of the three conditions stated at 00:09 UTC.
Checked on: BTCUSDT, hourly bars
The instrument
BTCUSD is the price of one bitcoin in US dollars. Unlike forex and metals it trades all the time, weekends included, which is why a BTCUSD reading can be issued at any hour. The reading of 9 August came out on a Sunday, at 00:09 UTC, with forex and metals closed.
How a reading is checked
BTCUSD readings are checked on Binance BTCUSDT hourly bars, adjusted by the broker/reference divergence recorded at issue: −8.8 basis points in the reading of 9 August, −10.4 in the one of 1 October. The tolerance is stated in each reading: about 5 basis points on 9 August, 30 points on 1 October.
The full method is on the methodology page.
Terms used in the readings
Band · Liquidity pool · Sweep · Displacement · Drift · Shelf
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