Bitcoin and Ethereum Price Forecast Today, 1 November 2026: The Weekend Bounce Reached Two Trailing Stops.
So Why Does The Panel Still Read SELL?

This Bitcoin and Ethereum price forecast today picks up where yesterday left off.

In yesterday’s Bitcoin and Ethereum read, we asked whether the weekend bounce was a bounce or a turn. The bounce kept going overnight, and it reached two trailing stops:

1. The Bitcoin 1 hour sell closed at its trailing stop, $1,191 in front of the entry.
2. The Ethereum 4 hour sell closed at its trailing stop, $2.41 in front of the entry, close to break even.

And yet the Direction Sniper panel still reads SELL on both coins. Here is why, and what is still running.

1. The Board This Sunday

Overnight, Bitcoin’s 1 hour joined the 15 and 30 minute in turning UP. On both coins, all three entry charts now point up. But the 4 hour and the daily, the two charts that decide direction, still read DOWN.

2. Bitcoin: The 1 Hour Closed, The 4 Hour Is Protected

The 1 hour ticket

Yesterday the Bitcoin 1 hour trailing stop sat at 77660.54, about $221 above price. The bounce carried Bitcoin to 77860.99, through that level, and the ticket closed.

Because the trailing stop had already moved $1,191 in front of the 78851.98 entry, the ticket closed in front of where it started, not at its original stop. Target 1 was never reached, but the trailing stop kept a winning move from turning into a loss.

The 4 hour ticket

The Bitcoin 4 hour sell from 79033.27 is still running, and it has changed in an important way.

1. Trailing stop: now 78329.00, down from 81107.99 yesterday
2. Target 1: 76418.35, reached
3. Target 2: 73803.43
4. Target 3: 71188.51

That trailing stop now sits $704 in front of the entry. If the stop is moved to that level, this ticket can no longer close at a loss, whatever the bounce does next. And it has already reached Target 1.

Bitcoin is at 77860.99, about $468 below that trailing stop.

3. Ethereum: Closed At Break Even

The Ethereum 4 hour sell from 2273.58 never reached Target 1 at 2170.13. Ethereum bounced steadily from its Friday low around 2,180, and the climb reached the trailing stop at 2271.17.

That level was just $2.41 in front of the entry, so the ticket closed at roughly break even. Ethereum is now at 2271.82.

The verdict has not changed. The 4 hour and the daily still read DOWN, so the direction is still SELL. The panel is simply waiting: with all three entry charts UP, there is no fresh ticket until they turn back down.

4. So Is It A Bounce Or A Turn?

On the panel, it is still a bounce.

A bounce turns the fast charts. A turn turns the big ones. This weekend, the bounce has turned every entry chart UP on both coins. It has not turned the 4 hour or the daily.

If the 4 hour turned UP while the daily stayed DOWN, the panel would move to NO TRADE and stand aside. That has not happened. Until it does, the trend is still down, and the bounce is a pullback inside it.

What the bounce did do is test the stops. And that is the real lesson of this weekend.

5. The Lesson: Being Wrong About A Bounce Should Not Cost You

Look at what the bounce did to the three tickets:

1. Bitcoin 1 hour: closed $1,191 in front of the entry.
2. Ethereum 4 hour: closed at about break even.
3. Bitcoin 4 hour: still running, with Target 1 reached and its stop now in front of the entry.

None of them reached its original stop. That is not luck. It is what happens when the stop is moved to the trailing level as the trade develops. Direction Sniper calculates and shows that level. The trader moves their own stop to match it.

A bounce against the trend will always come. When it does, the question is not whether you predicted it. It is whether your stop was already somewhere that made the bounce cheap.

6. Which Ticket Still Makes Sense Today?

Only one ticket is open: the Bitcoin 4 hour.

Distances are from Bitcoin at 77,861.

For someone already in it, this is a ticket to manage. Its stop is in front of the entry, and the bounce is still pressing up toward it.

For someone arriving now, starting a ticket that has already reached Target 1 is not the same trade as the one that printed. The panel’s next fresh entry will come when the entry charts turn back DOWN.

This is the market we are watching, not a trade recommendation.

7. Same Risk, Smaller Lot

We risk at most 2 percent per trade, usually 0.5 percent, so on a $10,000 account that is $50.

On many platforms, one lot of Bitcoin is one coin, so a $1 move is $1 per lot. From today’s price, the Bitcoin 4 hour trailing stop is $468 away, so $50 of risk is about 0.10 lots. Check your broker’s contract size, or work it out in seconds with our free Bitcoin Lot Size Calculator.

Crypto volume is often thinner at the weekend, so price can move further on small orders. On a small account, a cent account makes the right sizes possible. For small balances we recommend a RoboForex Cent account or an XM Micro account. These are partner links, so we may receive a commission at no cost to you.

If you are worrying about every trade, your lot size is still too big.

8. What Would Change The Picture

What would bring the next sell: the bounce running out, and the 15 minute, 30 minute and 1 hour turning back DOWN to join the bigger charts.

What would change the verdict: the 4 hour turning UP.

Levels to watch, read from the chart:

1. Bitcoin: the 4 hour trailing stop at 78329.00
2. Bitcoin: Friday’s low around 76,400
3. Ethereum: the bounce high around 2,275, and Friday’s low around 2,180

Right Direction, Protected Stops

Put the weekend together.

The bounce came, as bounces do. It reached the Bitcoin 1 hour and Ethereum 4 hour trailing stops, and both closed in front of their entries. The Bitcoin 4 hour has reached Target 1 and now has its stop in front of the entry too. And through all of it, the 4 hour and the daily kept reading DOWN.

That is Direction Sniper:

• Direction. One verdict from the 4 hour and the daily. After a full weekend bounce, it still reads SELL on both coins.
• Rallies and bounces that have not broken structure. The bounce turned every entry chart UP. It did not turn the verdict.
• The stop loss. Every ticket arrives with its stop and three targets marked, and the trailing stop level turned this weekend’s bounce into a small cost instead of a loss.

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Disclaimer: This post reports what the Direction Sniper panel showed on BTCUSD and ETHUSD on 1 November 2026. Prices will have moved by the time you read this. It is educational analysis, not financial advice and not a trade signal service, and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell. Price reaching a published target or stop level is not the same as a realised result, and a ticket shown as closed describes the panel, not anyone’s trade. High and low levels are approximate readings from the chart. Contract sizes and lot sizes are arithmetic for illustration, vary by broker, and are not a recommendation about how much anyone should trade. Cryptocurrency trading carries a high level of risk, and you should only trade money you can afford to lose.

Bitcoin and Ethereum Price Forecast Today, 31 October 2026: The Weekend Bounce Is Testing Bitcoin’s 1 Hour Stop. Is It A Bounce Or A Turn?

This Bitcoin and Ethereum price forecast today is a weekend read, because crypto is the one market that does not close.

Forex, gold and silver shut on Friday night. Bitcoin and Ethereum kept trading. And after a sharp drop on Thursday and Friday, both are bouncing this Saturday.

The Direction Sniper panel reads SELL on both, with the 4 hour and the daily both DOWN. But the faster charts have turned UP on the bounce, and on Bitcoin, the bounce has climbed to within about $221 of the 1 hour trailing stop.

So is this a bounce inside the downtrend, or the start of a turn? Here is what the panel shows.

1. The Board: Two Coins, One Direction

The 4 hour and the daily read DOWN on both coins, so the direction is SELL. The difference is in the faster charts. On Bitcoin, the 1 hour is still DOWN, so the status reads Sell on H1, H4. On Ethereum, all three entry charts have turned UP, so it reads Sell on H4 only.

2. Bitcoin Technical Analysis Today: The 4 Hour

On the 4 hour chart, Bitcoin peaked near 85,000 on 21 October and started falling. It spent 23 to 28 October chopping between roughly 79,500 and 81,800. Then on 29 and 30 October it broke lower, falling to around 76,400.

The 4 hour sell printed on 30 October at 00:00 at 79033.27, right as that break began. Target 1 at 76418.35 has been reached. Bitcoin has since bounced to 77430.17, about $1,603 below the entry.

1. Trailing stop: 81107.99
2. Target 1: 76418.35, reached
3. Target 2: 73803.43
4. Target 3: 71188.51

The chop between 79,500 and 81,800 is the part worth noticing. On a fast chart, every push up in that range looked like it could be the start of a recovery. The daily never turned, and when the range broke, it broke down.

3. The 1 Hour: The Ticket The Bounce Is Testing

The 1 hour sell printed on 29 October at 23:00 at 78851.98, after a spike to almost 82,000 failed and Bitcoin dropped hard. It fell as low as around 76,450 on Friday, but it did not quite reach Target 1 at 75975.89.

Here is the important part. The 1 hour trailing stop has moved down to 77660.54, which is $1,191 in front of the entry. If the stop is moved to that level, this ticket can no longer close at a loss.

But Bitcoin has bounced to 77439.58, so the trailing stop is now only about $221 above price.

1. Trailing stop: 77660.54
2. Target 1: 75975.89
3. Target 2: 73099.80
4. Target 3: 70223.70

What the 15 and 30 minute charts say

Both faster charts have turned UP on the weekend bounce, and neither has an open ticket. That is the panel standing aside on the fast charts while the bigger charts stay DOWN.

4. Ethereum Price Forecast Today

Ethereum followed the same path. On the 4 hour chart it had been drifting lower through October, bounced to around 2,390 on 28 October, then dropped hard on 30 October to around 2,200.

The 4 hour sell printed on 30 October at 00:00 at 2273.58. At the time of writing Ethereum was at 2246.66, about $27 below the entry, after bouncing from the low.

1. Trailing stop: 2348.03
2. Target 1: 2170.13
3. Target 2: 2066.68
4. Target 3: 1963.24

No target has been reached yet. The 15 minute, 30 minute and 1 hour have all turned UP on the bounce, so Ethereum shows Sell on H4 only. The direction is SELL, but there is no fresh entry on the faster charts today.

5. Bounce Or Turn? How To Tell The Difference

This is the question every weekend bounce asks, and the panel answers it the same way every time.

A bounce turns the fast charts. A turn turns the big ones.

Right now, the 15 and 30 minute have turned UP on both coins, and Ethereum’s 1 hour has joined them. That is a bounce. The 4 hour and the daily, the two charts that decide direction, still read DOWN on both.

For the verdict to change, the 4 hour would have to turn UP. If it did while the daily stayed DOWN, the panel would move to NO TRADE and stand aside. Until then, the direction stays SELL, and the bounce is a pullback inside the trend.

That does not mean the bounce cannot hurt. On Bitcoin, it may well reach the 1 hour trailing stop. If it does, that ticket closes in front of its entry, and the panel waits for the fast charts to turn back DOWN before the next sell.

6. Which Ticket Still Makes Sense Today?

Distances are from Bitcoin at 77,430 and Ethereum at 2,246.66.

The Bitcoin 1 hour is the ticket to watch. Its trailing stop is close and its first target is far away. But that tight stop is exactly what makes it fragile: a small push higher on the bounce closes it.

The Bitcoin 4 hour has room on both sides, but anyone starting it now would need a stop more than $3,600 away. It is a ticket to manage, not one to start.

Ethereum has no fresh entry on the faster charts, so the panel is waiting.

These are the markets we are watching, not trade recommendations.

7. The Weekend Is Different

Crypto trades all weekend, but most traders do not. Volume is often thinner on Saturdays and Sundays, and thin markets can move further and faster on small orders.

So the weekend is not the time to size up. If anything, it is the time to size down.

8. Same Risk, Very Different Lot Sizes

We risk at most 2 percent per trade, usually 0.5 percent, so on a $10,000 account that is $50, whichever coin and whichever chart.

On many platforms, one lot of Bitcoin is one coin, so a $1 move is $1 per lot. One lot of Ethereum is often one coin too. Contract sizes vary by broker, so check yours.

1. Bitcoin 1 hour from today’s price: a $221 stop, so $50 of risk is about 0.23 lots.
2. Bitcoin 4 hour from today’s price: a $3,678 stop, so the same $50 is about 0.01 lots.
3. Ethereum 4 hour from today’s price: a $101 stop, so $50 of risk is about 0.49 lots.

Same $50 at risk, and the Bitcoin lot sizes are more than 15 times apart. A wider stop does not mean more risk. It means a smaller lot. Work out your own size in seconds with our free Bitcoin and Ethereum Lot Size Calculator.

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If you are worrying about every trade, your lot size is still too big.

9. What Would Change The Picture

The verdict stays SELL on each coin while its 4 hour and daily both read DOWN.

What would bring the next sell: the bounce running out, and the 15 and 30 minute turning back DOWN to join the bigger charts.

What would change the verdict: the 4 hour turning UP.

Levels to watch, read from the chart:

1. Bitcoin: the 1 hour trailing stop at 77660.54, and Friday’s low around 76,400
2. Bitcoin: the 79,500 to 81,800 range it broke out of
3. Ethereum: Friday’s low around 2,200, and Target 1 at 2170.13

Right Direction, Right Size

Put the board together.

Bitcoin and Ethereum both read SELL on the 4 hour and the daily. Bitcoin’s 4 hour has reached Target 1, and its 1 hour trailing stop already sits $1,191 in front of the entry. The weekend bounce has turned the fast charts UP, but not the charts that decide direction.

That is Direction Sniper:

• Direction. One verdict from the 4 hour and the daily. On both coins today, it reads SELL.
• Rallies and bounces that have not broken structure. Bitcoin’s weekend bounce turned the 15 and 30 minute UP. It has not turned the verdict.
• The stop loss. Every ticket arrives with its stop and three targets marked, and the trailing stop level shows you when a ticket can no longer close at a loss.

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Disclaimer: This post reports what the Direction Sniper panel showed on BTCUSD and ETHUSD on 31 October 2026. The tickets were running at the time of writing, and prices will have moved by the time you read this. It is educational analysis, not financial advice and not a trade signal service, and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell. Price reaching a published target level is not the same as a realised result. A target shown as reached means price touched that level on the chart, and does not describe anyone’s trade. High and low levels are approximate readings from the chart. Contract sizes and lot sizes are arithmetic for illustration, vary by broker, and are not a recommendation about how much anyone should trade. Cryptocurrency trading carries a high level of risk, and you should only trade money you can afford to lose.

Bitcoin and Ethereum Price Forecast Today, 24 October 2026: Does Ethereum Always Follow Bitcoin?

Not Today. Six Ethereum Targets Reached

This Bitcoin and Ethereum price forecast today answers a question crypto traders ask every week: does Ethereum always follow Bitcoin?

Most of the time the two coins move together. We have said it in these posts many times: trading both is often one trade taken twice.

Today the Direction Sniper panel shows them split. Bitcoin reads NO TRADE. Its daily chart has turned UP while its 4 hour still points down, so the panel stands aside. Ethereum reads SELL. Every Ethereum timeframe points down, and since Thursday night six Ethereum targets have been reached.

Same weekend, same market, two different verdicts. Here is why, and what it means for anyone trading both.

1. The Trap: Assuming Ethereum Follows Bitcoin

When two coins usually move together, it is easy to stop looking at them separately.

So a trader sees Ethereum falling and sells Bitcoin too, because “they always move together”. Or he sees Bitcoin’s daily chart looking strong and buys Ethereum, expecting it to catch up.

Both trades borrow a verdict from the other coin. And on a day like today, that means trading against the coin’s own bigger picture.

Direction Sniper never borrows. Every coin gets its own verdict, from its own 4 hour and its own daily.

2. Bitcoin: The Daily Turned Up, So The Panel Stands Aside

Bitcoin’s daily chart turned UP around two days ago. Its 4 hour is still pointing down, with Bitcoin trading around 80,816.

That is a disagreement between the two charts that decide the verdict, so the panel stands aside:

• It will not sell Bitcoin, because that would be selling against a daily chart that points up
• It will not buy Bitcoin either, because the 4 hour has not turned up to agree with the daily

Look at the fast charts in that table. All three read DOWN. A trader watching only a 15 minute chart would see a clean sell. The panel prints no ticket at all, because without a verdict there is nothing to line up with.

Standing aside is a position. It costs nothing, and it keeps you out of a fight between the 4 hour and the daily.

3. Ethereum: Every Timeframe Down, Six Targets Reached

Ethereum is a different story. Its daily still points DOWN, its 4 hour agrees, and the status reads Sell on M15, M30, H1, H4.

The fast tickets all printed late on 23 October, within a few dollars of each other, around 2395. Ethereum then dipped to around 2351. Two targets each were reached on the 15 minute, 30 minute and 1 hour. Six targets in total.

The 15 minute has already finished. Its trailing level followed the drop down, and when Ethereum bounced, it closed at its trailing stop at 2387.24, which is 7.83 in front of its entry, after two targets. The 30 minute trailing level now sits at 2386.49, also in front of its entry.

The 1 hour is the honest part of the board. Its trailing level has tightened to 2403.87 but still sits 9.36 behind its entry. Two targets reached, and the stop not yet crossed.

The 4 hour sell from 22 October is the big ticket underneath it all. It started with 132.32 of risk, and its trailing level has already tightened to 2417.46, removing about 72 percent of that risk. It still sits 36.80 behind the entry, with price around 2378.6, close to where the ticket began. None of its targets has been reached yet.

4. Last Week Ethereum Looked Weaker. This Week The Charts Split

On 18 October we asked is Ethereum weaker than Bitcoin this week? Both coins had bounced, and every one of Bitcoin’s fast charts had turned up. Ethereum’s 1 hour never did.

Six days later the gap has reached the charts that matter most. Bitcoin’s daily has turned up. Ethereum’s has not.

That is not a prediction about which coin goes where next. It is simply what the two boards show today, and it is why the panel treats them separately: a SELL verdict on one, and NO TRADE on the other.

5. What To Watch

Ethereum:

• The 30 minute trailing stop at 2386.49 and the 1 hour trailing stop at 2403.87 sit closest above price
• The 4 hour trailing stop at 2417.46, the level that would close the main ticket
• The next targets below: 2335.95 on the 30 minute, 2334.50 on the 1 hour, then 2248.34 on the 4 hour

If Ethereum’s 4 hour turned UP while its daily stayed DOWN, its verdict would move to NO TRADE, the same as Bitcoin’s today.

Bitcoin:

• If the 4 hour turns UP to join the daily, the verdict becomes BUY, and the panel starts looking for buy tickets
• If the daily turns back DOWN to join the 4 hour, the verdict becomes SELL again

Until one of those happens, the panel stands aside. Nobody knows which comes first, and the panel does not guess.

6. Two Coins, One Verdict, One Trade

Last week the sizing lesson was that Bitcoin and Ethereum often move together, so taking both is really one trade taken twice. Today the lesson is the other side of the same coin.

Only one of them has a verdict. So there is only one trade on the board, and it gets one normal risk. Do not add a Bitcoin trade “to balance it”, and do not double the Ethereum trade because Bitcoin has nothing to offer.

On most brokers one lot of ETHUSD is one coin, so a $1 move is $1 per lot. Check the contract size in your platform’s Specification window, because it varies. At 0.5 percent of a $10,000 account, which is $50 of risk:

The 4 hour needs about one seventh of the lot size of the fast tickets to risk the same $50. And if you take the 30 minute and 1 hour together, remember their stops sit close to each other, so size them as one.

We risk at most 2 percent per trade, usually 0.5 percent. If you are worrying about every trade, your lot size is still too big.

Every Coin Gets Its Own Verdict

Put the board together.

Bitcoin’s daily turned up, so the panel stood aside and printed nothing, even with three fast charts pointing down. Ethereum’s daily stayed down, so the panel kept selling, and six targets were reached.

Two coins that usually move together, read separately, and treated separately.

The Direction Sniper BTC and ETH Edition puts this exact panel on your own Bitcoin and Ethereum charts:

• Direction. One verdict per coin, from its own 4 hour and daily. Today that is NO TRADE on Bitcoin and SELL on Ethereum, and you never have to borrow one from the other.
• Bounces that have not broken structure. When a coin’s big charts disagree, the panel stands aside instead of guessing.
• The stop loss. Every ticket arrives with its stop marked, and the trailing level shows when it has crossed in front of entry, like the Ethereum 15 minute today.

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Disclaimer: This post reports what the Direction Sniper panel showed on Bitcoin and Ethereum on 24 October 2026. It is educational analysis, not financial advice and not a trade signal service. The Ethereum 30 minute, 1 hour and 4 hour tickets were still open at the time of writing. Price reaching a published target level is not the same as a realised result. High and low levels, and the timing of the Bitcoin daily turn, are approximate readings from the chart. Lot sizes are arithmetic for illustration, depend on your broker’s contract size, and are not a recommendation about how much anyone should trade. Cryptocurrency is highly volatile, trading carries risk, and you should only trade money you can afford to lose.

Bitcoin and Ethereum Price Forecast Today, 18 October 2026: The Bounce Is Back. Where Will The Next Sell Ticket Come From?

This Bitcoin and Ethereum price forecast today starts with a result, because yesterday we made a call in public and today you can check it.

Yesterday Bitcoin had rallied to almost 82,900 and every fast chart said buy. We asked whether it was a bounce or a reversal. The Direction Sniper panel said bounce.

Bitcoin followed through. Three targets reached. Ethereum followed Bitcoin lower, its protected 30 minute ticket closed in front of its entry, and a fresh 1 hour ticket reached its first target.

This morning the same test is back. Both coins have bounced again, the fast charts have turned UP again, and the 4 hour and the daily still read DOWN on both. So today’s question is not whether to buy. It is where the next sell ticket would come from, and which chart to watch first.

1. Yesterday’s Call: The Panel Said Bounce, And Both Coins Followed Through

Bitcoin. On 16 October the 1 hour and the 30 minute both printed sells at 81974.44, while the 4 hour and the daily held DOWN.

• 1 hour Target 1 at 81442.34: reached
• 1 hour Target 2 at 80910.25: reached
• 30 minute Target 1 at 81200.82: reached
• The 30 minute ticket closed at its trailing stop in front of its entry, at least 167.43 ahead of 81974.44
• Bitcoin went on to dip to around 80,820, more than 1,100 below the 81974.44 sells

Ethereum. Yesterday we said Ethereum was lined up right behind Bitcoin, with its 30 minute stop already in front of its entry.

• The 30 minute ticket from 2439.13 closed at its trailing stop in front of its entry, at least 11.92 ahead
• A fresh 1 hour sell printed at 17 October 19:00 at 2410.56 and reached Target 1 at 2379.90
• Ethereum dipped to around 2,357, more than 80 below yesterday’s 30 minute entry

Three Bitcoin targets and one Ethereum target reached, from a verdict that refused to flip while every fast chart said buy.

That is the whole job of Direction Sniper in one day. The fast charts shouted reversal. The bigger picture said bounce. The panel listened to the bigger picture.

2. The Same Test, One Day Later

Overnight Bitcoin ran from around 80,820 to above 82,050, and Ethereum from around 2,357 to about 2,430. Once again the fast charts turned UP.

A trader watching only a fast chart sees another reversal and reaches for the buy button again. The panel sees exactly what it saw yesterday: fast charts pointing UP against a SELL verdict, so no buy ticket, and the bigger picture unchanged on both coins.

A bounce turns the fast charts. A reversal turns the big ones. Two days running, only the fast charts have turned.

3. Ethereum’s 1 Hour Never Turned

Look at that table again. Both coins rallied overnight. Bitcoin’s rally was strong enough to turn all three of its fast charts. Ethereum’s only turned the two fastest. Its 1 hour stayed DOWN, lined up with the verdict the whole time.

When one coin cannot turn its 1 hour chart in the same rally that turns all of Bitcoin’s, the panel is showing you which of the two is holding the bigger picture more firmly right now.

You do not see that by staring at one chart. You see it by reading five timeframes on two coins side by side, which is exactly what the panel lays out for you.

4. Both 4 Hour Tickets: Most Of The Risk Already Gone

Both 4 hour sells printed on the same candle, 13 October at 04:00, and both are still running.

Both trailing levels tightened again overnight: Bitcoin’s by 559.66 from 82747.01, Ethereum’s by 29.29 from 2491.33. Bitcoin sits at about 81,795, close to its entry. Ethereum sits at about 2,412, below its entry.

This is what the panel does while you wait. Neither trade has had to go anywhere for most of its risk to disappear. The structure behind each one tightened, and the level followed.

5. The Full Board, Including The Ticket That Closed This Morning

We publish every ticket. Ethereum’s fresh 1 hour sell from 2410.56 had 30.66 of risk, from an original stop of 2441.22. It reached Target 1 at 2379.90 first. Then, in this morning’s bounce, price reached its trailing level at 2429.44 and the ticket closed there, 18.88 behind its entry. The trail had already taken 11.78 off the original risk before it was reached.

Every other ticket on both coins is either the 4 hour, still running, or a fast chart waiting for alignment.

6. Where Will The Next Sell Ticket Come From?

While the 4 hour and the daily hold DOWN, a new sell ticket needs a fast chart to turn back DOWN and line up with the verdict again. Each fast chart turns when price closes back below its blue trailing line.

So the question is simple: which blue line is closest to price?

Bitcoin

1. The 15 minute. Its blue line sits around 81,710, only about 85 below price. The closest, so the first chart that could line back up.
2. The 30 minute. Around 81,400, about 395 below price.
3. The 1 hour. Around 81,150, about 645 below price.

Ethereum

1. The 15 minute. Its blue line sits around 2,411, right at price. The closest of all.
2. The 30 minute. Around 2,398, about 14 below price.
3. The 1 hour is already DOWN and lined up.

The other side, just as clearly: Bitcoin’s 4 hour trailing level at 82187.35 sits about 390 above price, and Ethereum’s at 2462.04 sits about 50 above. If price reaches either first, that 4 hour ticket closes there instead.

Nobody knows which level price reaches first. What the panel gives you is the map: the level that would bring a new ticket, and the level that would end the current one. Both on one screen, in one glance.

7. The Lesson: The Fastest Chart Lines Up First

When the big picture holds and the fast charts drift against it, they come back in order. The 15 minute turns first, because its line is tightest. Then the 30 minute. Then the 1 hour. Yesterday’s sells arrived exactly that way, after the fast charts had finished their bounce.

That is why the status line matters. Today Bitcoin reads Sell on H4 and Ethereum reads Sell on H1, H4. When a fast chart lines back up, the status says so and the alert fires on your phone. You do not have to sit and watch six charts waiting for it.

8. Lot Size: Small Stops, Split Risk

A ticket from the 15 minute comes with a far tighter stop than one from the 4 hour. Yesterday’s Bitcoin 15 minute ticket had 171.91 of risk. The Bitcoin 4 hour has 2862.56, more than sixteen times the distance.

One lot is usually one coin, so a 1 dollar move is worth about 1 dollar per lot. At 50 dollars of risk:

• A 171.91 Bitcoin stop is about 0.29 lots
• A 2862.56 Bitcoin stop is about 0.017 lots

And if you take both coins in the same direction, remember yesterday’s rule: it is one view of the market seen twice. Split your risk, 25 dollars on each. On Ethereum’s 4 hour stop of 149.49, 25 dollars is about 0.17 lots.

Every Direction Sniper ticket prints its stop before you enter, so this happens before the trade, not after it. Contract sizes vary between brokers, so check your own Specification window.

9. Where The Levels Sit Now

Bitcoin (price about 81,795)

• 4 hour: Target 1 at 78580.00, trailing level 82187.35
• Blue lines: 15 minute around 81,710, 30 minute around 81,400, 1 hour around 81,150
• Verdict SELL. Status: Sell on H4

Ethereum (price about 2,412)

• 4 hour: Target 1 at 2272.36, trailing level 2462.04
• Blue lines: 15 minute around 2,411, 30 minute around 2,398
• 1 hour: DOWN, lined up with the verdict
• Verdict SELL. Status: Sell on H1, H4

Why We Publish This

Every read on this site comes straight from the Direction Sniper panel. We publish the call, then we come back and show what happened, including the ticket that closed behind its entry this morning. You can check every number against the chart yourself.

Read Both Coins On One Panel

The Direction Sniper BTC and ETH Edition puts this exact panel on your own Bitcoin and Ethereum charts.

• Direction. One verdict from the 4 hour and the daily, on both coins. Yesterday it held SELL through a rally to almost 82,900, and three Bitcoin targets were reached after.
• Bounces that have not broken structure. Two days running, the fast charts turned UP. Two days running, the panel told you it was a bounce.
• The stop loss. Both 4 hour tickets have shed most of their original risk, 74 and 73 percent, and the levels sit on the panel the whole time.

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Disclaimer: This post reports what the Direction Sniper panel showed on 18 October 2026. It is educational analysis, not financial advice and not a trade signal service. Both 4 hour tickets were still open at the time of writing. The blue line levels are approximate readings from the chart. Price reaching a published target level is not the same as a realised result. Lot sizes are arithmetic for illustration and are not a recommendation about how much anyone should trade. Cryptocurrency is highly volatile, trading carries risk, and you should only trade money you can afford to lose.

Bitcoin and Ethereum Price Forecast Today, 17 October 2026: Bitcoin Bounce Or Reversal?

How Direction Sniper Told The Difference Before Three Targets Were Reached

This Bitcoin and Ethereum price forecast today answers the question every crypto trader asks at least once a week: is this a bounce, or is the market turning?

On 15 October Bitcoin dipped to around 80,000. Then it rallied hard, to almost 82,900. Every fast chart flipped UP. On a 15 minute chart it looked exactly like a reversal.

The Direction Sniper panel never flipped. The 4 hour and the daily held DOWN the whole way, so the verdict stayed SELL. When the rally ran out, the panel lined up fresh sell tickets on the 1 hour and the 30 minute. Three targets have been reached since.

Ethereum followed the same path. And right now, the same test is playing out again on Ethereum’s 15 minute chart.

Here is the full board, every number, and how to tell a bounce from a reversal before you put money on it.

The Board At A Glance

Three targets reached. Eighteen positions still running, counting each ticket as three positions under the three target split. Both coins read DOWN on the 4 hour and the daily.

1. The Bitcoin Bounce That Looked Like A Reversal

Here is what a trader with only a fast chart saw on 15 October.

Bitcoin fell to around 80,000. Then a run of green candles carried it to almost 82,900, close to 3,000 dollars off the low. The 15 minute flipped UP. The 30 minute flipped UP. The 1 hour flipped UP. Three charts in a row saying the same thing.

That is exactly the moment most traders buy. It feels like the bottom is in.

Here is what the Direction Sniper panel saw. The 4 hour still read DOWN. The daily still read DOWN. The 4 hour sell ticket from 13 October was still running. So the verdict stayed SELL, and the fast charts pointing UP against it produced no buy ticket at all.

That is a rally inside a downtrend that has not broken structure. The fast charts always turn first, on every bounce. A real reversal needs the bigger charts to turn as well, and they never did.

2. What Happened When The Rally Ran Out

On 16 October at 18:00, the rally ran out of steam and the fast charts lined back up with the verdict. The panel printed fresh sells on both the 1 hour and the 30 minute, at the same price: 81974.44.

The 1 hour ticket:

• Entry 81974.44, original stop 82506.54, so 532.10 of risk
• Target 1 at 81442.34, reached
• Target 2 at 80910.25, reached
• Target 3 at 80378.15, still ahead

Two targets reached in a matter of hours.

The 30 minute ticket:

• Entry 81974.44, original stop 82748.06, so 773.62 of risk
• Target 1 at 81200.82, reached
• Target 2 at 80427.19 and Target 3 at 79653.57, still ahead
• Trailing level now at 81807.01, which is 167.43 in front of the entry

That last line matters. The 30 minute ticket is already protected. A trigger at its trailing level now closes in front of the entry, not behind it.

A trader who bought the bounce on 15 October was buying straight into the move the panel was waiting for.

3. The Bigger Picture Never Changed

The 4 hour sell from 13 October at 81442.56 is still running. Its original stop was 84305.12, 2862.56 of risk. Its trailing level has since tightened to 82747.01, which takes 1558.11 off the original risk. Target 1 sits at 78580.00.

And this morning at 02:30, a fresh 15 minute ticket printed: entry 81643.08, stop 81814.99, targets 81471.17, 81299.26 and 81127.35. Price is already about 32% of the way to Target 1.

The status line on every Bitcoin panel reads the same thing: Sell on M15, M30, H1, H4. Four entry charts lined up with one verdict. You do not have to open five charts and work it out. The panel says it in one line.

4. Ethereum: The Same Story, One Step Behind

Bitcoin usually leads. Ethereum usually follows. Today’s board shows it clearly.

Ethereum’s 4 hour sell printed at the same moment as Bitcoin’s, 13 October at 04:00, entry 2421.85. Ethereum had its own bounce too, from around 2,330 on 15 October to almost 2,495 on 16 October. And the same thing happened: the 4 hour and daily held DOWN, the verdict stayed SELL, and fresh sells lined up when the rally ran out.

The 30 minute ticket:

• Entry 2439.13, original stop 2487.47, so 48.34 of risk
• Targets 2390.79, 2342.44 and 2294.10
• Trailing level now at 2427.21, which is 11.92 in front of the entry

No targets reached yet, and the stop has already crossed break even on structure alone. Price is about 37% of the way to Target 1.

The 1 hour ticket:

• Entry 2431.31, original stop 2475.38, so 44.07 of risk
• Targets 2387.24, 2343.18 and 2299.11
• Trailing level at 2459.24, already tightened by 16.14

The 4 hour ticket from 13 October has its trailing level at 2491.33, tightened by 80.01 from the original 2571.34. Price sits right at the entry.

5. The Same Test, Happening Again Right Now

Look at Ethereum’s 15 minute chart this morning. It reads UP.

A trader watching only that chart sees a buy. The panel sees a fast chart pointing against a SELL verdict, so it shows no ticket and waits for alignment. The status reads Sell on M30, H1, H4. The 15 minute is the one chart not on that list.

This is the same test Bitcoin passed on 15 October. Nobody knows how this one ends. What the panel gives you is the same rule every time: the fast chart has to line up with the bigger picture before a ticket appears.

6. The Lesson: How To Tell A Bounce From A Reversal

Here is the rule this board teaches.

A bounce turns the fast charts. A reversal turns the big ones.

1. On every rally, the 15 minute, 30 minute and 1 hour turn first. That alone tells you nothing.
2. A real change in direction needs the 4 hour and the daily to turn as well.
3. Until they do, a rally is a rally inside the trend, and buying it means buying against the bigger picture.

Most traders cannot check five timeframes every time price moves. That is exactly what the Direction Sniper panel does for you, in one verdict line.

7. Lot Size: Two Coins, One Trade

Here is the part most crypto traders miss.

When Bitcoin and Ethereum both show sells at the same time, that is not two separate opportunities. It is one view of the market, seen twice. If both trades go wrong, they will usually go wrong together.

So if your normal risk is 50 dollars per trade, and you take both coins, split it: 25 dollars on Bitcoin, 25 on Ethereum. One lot is usually one coin, so a 1 dollar move is worth about 1 dollar per lot:

• Bitcoin M15: 171.91 of risk, so 25 dollars is about 0.15 lots
• Bitcoin M30: 773.62 of risk, so 25 dollars is about 0.03 lots
• Ethereum M30: 48.34 of risk, so 25 dollars is about 0.52 lots
• Ethereum H1: 44.07 of risk, so 25 dollars is about 0.57 lots

Every Direction Sniper ticket prints the stop before you enter, which is what makes this possible before the trade, not after it. Contract sizes vary between brokers, so check your own Specification window.

8. Where The Levels Sit Now

Bitcoin (price about 81,596)

• M15: Target 1 at 81471.17, stop 81814.99
• M30: Target 2 at 80427.19, trailing level 81807.01
• H1: Target 3 at 80378.15, trailing level 82116.42
• H4: Target 1 at 78580.00, trailing level 82747.01

Ethereum (price about 2,421)

• M30: Target 1 at 2390.79, trailing level 2427.21
• H1: Target 1 at 2387.24, trailing level 2459.24
• H4: Target 1 at 2272.36, trailing level 2491.33
• M15: UP against the verdict, waiting for alignment

Why We Publish This

Every read on this site comes straight from the Direction Sniper panel. We publish the entry, the stop and the targets as the panel shows them, on the days they work and the days they do not. You can check every number against the chart yourself.

Bounce Or Reversal? Let The Panel Tell You

The Direction Sniper BTC and ETH Edition puts this exact panel on your own Bitcoin and Ethereum charts.

• Direction. One verdict from the 4 hour and the daily, so you always know which way the bigger picture is leaning.
• Bounces that have not broken structure. On 15 October every fast chart flipped UP. The panel held SELL, and three targets were reached after the rally ran out.
• The stop loss. Every ticket prints its stop before you enter, and the trailing level shows you the moment a trade is protected, like both 30 minute tickets today.

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Disclaimer: This post reports what the Direction Sniper panel showed on 17 October 2026. It is educational analysis, not financial advice and not a trade signal service. All the tickets described were still open at the time of writing. Price reaching a published target level is not the same as a realised result. Lot sizes are arithmetic for illustration and are not a recommendation about how much anyone should trade. Cryptocurrency is highly volatile, trading carries risk, and you should only trade money you can afford to lose.

Ethereum Forecast Today, 13 October 2026: Four Timeframes, Four Different Answers On The Same Coin

Executive Summary

Four charts. One coin. One moment. Four completely different situations.

Ethereum is trading at 2511, and the verdict is SELL, with the daily and the four hour both pointing down.

One finished. One running. One in trouble. One standing aside.

If you have ever wondered why two timeframes on the same chart seem to tell you opposite things, this page is that question with the numbers filled in.

Why we publish this. Every entry, stop and target below is a level the indicator printed on a live chart, at the moment it printed, before price did anything about it. Nothing is back tested. Nothing is chosen after the fact. We publish the tickets that worked and the ones that did not, because a page that only shows you the winners teaches you nothing you can use. The point is to show how the panel is read and how position size follows from a stop. These are not trade recommendations and nothing here is financial advice.

Price reaching a published target level is not the same as a realised result. A target shown as reached means price touched that level on the chart. It does not describe anyone’s trade, because that depends on whether a position existed, at what size, and what was done at each level.

1. The Thirty Minute Finished Its Plan

The arithmetic reconstructs exactly. One unit of risk is 27.25, measured entry to stop. Target one sits one unit away, target two sits two, target three sits three.

Taking the third completes the plan, so the indicator ends the ticket there rather than leaving a stop running with nothing left to protect. The numbers grey out, the stop freezes where it stood, and the status changes so a finished ticket can never be read as a live one.

Look at where that frozen stop sits. 2531.74, against an entry of 2546.21. On a sell that is 14.47 in front of where the trade began. It started 27.25 behind and travelled 41.72, crossing the entry on the way.

2. Yesterday Holding Would Have Been Better. Today It Would Not.

This is the part worth slowing down for, because we published the opposite answer twenty four hours ago and both answers were correct.

Yesterday, on EUR USD, a four hour ticket reached all three targets and price kept going, finishing 4.27 units past the entry against a plan that promised three. Holding would have been better. We said so.

Today, on Ethereum, the same mechanism, the other way round.

That thirty minute plan completed at three units. Price has since rebounded to 2511, which is 35.21 in front of the 2546.21 entry, or 1.29 units.

A position held past target three would be sitting on less than half of what the finished plan took.

Same tool. Same mechanism. Two days apart. Opposite answers.

That is not a flaw in having a plan. That is the entire argument for having one. Nobody can tell you in advance which kind of day today is, and anyone who claims they can does not need targets or a stop in the first place.

The plan finishes on a schedule decided before you were emotionally involved in the position. Some days that costs you. Some days it saves you. The only thing it does every single day is finish.

We wrote the full mechanism up in our guide to when to move your stop loss to break even.

3. The One Hour Is Still Running, And It Is Not Safe Yet

Two targets reached, and here is the number almost nobody checks.

The trailing stop is at 2551.37. The entry was 2531.95. On a sell, that level is still 19.42 above the entry.

It has moved. It started at 2574.51 and has walked 23.14 in. The label on the panel has changed from STOP LOSS to TRAILING STOP to tell you that.

But it has not crossed the entry yet.

So if price came back up and touched it right now, that position would close 19.42 behind where it started, which is 0.46 of a unit, despite having reached two of its three targets along the way.

Two targets reached does not mean a position is safe. The only thing that makes it safe is the level crossing the entry, and on this ticket it has not happened.

Price at 2511 is 20.95 in front of the entry, or 0.49 of a unit. Target three at 2404.27 is another 106.73 below.

4. The Four Hour Is In Trouble, And We Are Going To Say So

Price is 2511. That entry was 2421.85.

The ticket is 89.15 behind, which is 59.6% of its risk spent, with 60.34 left before the stop.

Measured properly, that is the only number worth looking at. Divide the distance from your entry to the current price by the distance from your entry to your stop and you have the fraction of your own risk that has gone. It is the only figure that compares two different trades fairly.

And look at the label. It still reads STOP LOSS, not TRAILING STOP. Nothing has moved. That level is exactly where the signal placed it, because the trade has never been onside long enough for structure to tighten behind it.

That is a label doing its job. One glance and you know this position has given back nothing, protected nothing, and is six tenths of the way to being wrong.

Nothing about that is comfortable and we are not going to dress it up. It is on this page because the mornings where one chart finishes beautifully and another is bleeding are the normal ones, and a site that only publishes the first kind is not showing you how this works.

5. The Fifteen Minute Has Nothing At All

The fifteen minute is pointing up while the verdict is to sell.

So it issues no entry, no stop and no targets, and it waits. Its status line reads Sell on M30, H1, H4 and nothing else, which is the panel telling you where the setups are rather than inventing one here.

That is a feature and it is the one nobody advertises. A tool that always has something for you is not reading the market. It is manufacturing a reason to press the button.

6. So Why Do The Timeframes Disagree At All

This is the question underneath the whole page, and the answer is simpler than most traders expect.

They are measuring different things.

A thirty minute chart is reading structure built over hours. A four hour chart is reading structure built over days. When a market falls hard and then rebounds, the faster chart registers the rebound first, because the rebound is large relative to what it measures and small relative to what the slower chart measures.

So the thirty minute can complete a whole plan while the four hour is still in its opening move. Both are correct. They are answering different questions.

What the panel does is stop you confusing the two. The daily and the four hour decide the direction. The faster charts only decide where the entries are. A fast chart is never allowed to overrule the slow ones, which is why the verdict on this page is SELL on all five panels even though one of them has nothing to offer.

What the tool does for you here: all five readings sit on one panel, on whatever chart you have open. You do not have to flip between timeframes and hold four different states in your head, which is exactly the situation in which people talk themselves into a trade.

7. Where The Lot Size Comes From

Three tickets this morning with three very different stops, which makes the point better than any explanation.

The four hour stop is five and a half times the thirty minute stop. On the same coin. At the same time.

The calculation never changes. Your risk in money, divided by the stop distance, divided by what one point is worth per lot. On most brokers one lot of ETHUSD is one Ether, which makes a one dollar move worth one dollar per lot.

On a ten thousand dollar account risking half a percent, which is fifty dollars:

A trader using one fixed lot on all three would have risked five and a half times more on the four hour than on the thirty minute, without ever deciding to. That is how an account gets damaged by a market that was read correctly.

Check your own contract specification before you use any of those numbers. Crypto specifications vary far more between brokers than forex or gold does, and some quote a different contract size entirely. The method is identical everywhere. The inputs are not.

The lot size is the protection. The direction keeps you on the right side. The stop tells you where the idea failed. Neither of those decides what a bad morning costs you.

Where The Levels Sit Now

With Ethereum at 2511:

2551.37 is the live trailing stop on the one hour ticket, 40.37 above price, and still above that ticket’s entry.

2404.27 is that ticket’s third target, 106.73 below price.

2571.34 is the stop on the four hour ticket, 60.34 above price, unmoved from where the signal placed it.

2272.36, 2122.87 and 1973.38 are the four hour targets, sitting 238.64, 388.13 and 537.62 below price.

2531.74 is where the thirty minute ticket’s stop froze. That one is history, not a level to trade against.

Those are the levels on the chart and how far price sits from each. None of it is a forecast.

What You Are Actually Buying

A verdict that holds while the fast charts argue. The daily and the four hour both point down. One entry chart has finished a plan, one is running, one is behind, and one has nothing. The direction did not change once.

A measured stop on every single ticket. 27.25, 42.56 and 149.49 on one coin on one morning. You cannot eyeball that, and without it the position size is a guess.

A trailing level with an honest label. On the one hour it reads TRAILING STOP and sits above the entry, which tells you the position is not safe yet. On the four hour it still reads STOP LOSS, which tells you nothing has moved at all. One glance, two completely different situations.

And a blank panel when a chart does not qualify, which is the feature nobody puts on a sales page.

These panels came from the Bitcoin and Ethereum Edition. The same panel runs on these editions, all live now:

• Gold and Silver Edition, the original and still the one most of our traders start with
• 28 Pair Edition, $77, every major, minor and cross
• Forex Majors Edition, $47, the seven majors
• EURUSD Edition, $7, the cheapest way to put the panel on a chart and watch it work for yourself

Direction Sniper prints all of it on your charts in MetaTrader and keeps it live. You still move the order on your platform yourself. The indicator does the arithmetic, the click is yours.

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Trading cryptocurrencies, foreign exchange and other leveraged products carries a high level of risk and is not suitable for everyone. The levels above describe where the indicator placed entries, stops and targets at the time the charts were read, and the status shown for each ticket is the status the panel displayed at that moment. Price reaching a published target level is not the same as a realised result. A target shown as reached means price touched that level on the chart, and does not describe anyone’s trade, which depends on whether a position existed, at what size, and what was done at each level. Two of the positions described above were still open when this was written. Distances between levels are arithmetic on published levels. Figures describing what a closed position would have done if it had been held are hypothetical. A stop is a level rather than a guarantee, and gaps or fast markets can fill you past it, which applies with particular force to cryptocurrency outside normal market hours. Trailing a stop reduces the worst case on a position but also closes positions that may later have moved further. Lot sizing figures are arithmetic for illustration and are not a recommendation about how much anyone should trade. Cryptocurrency contract specifications vary widely between brokers, so check your own before applying any figure on this page. Nothing here is financial advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.

Bitcoin Forecast Today, 11 October 2026: The Four Hour Closed In Front. Now Nothing Qualifies.

Executive Summary

Two things happened on Bitcoin, and the second one is the unusual one.

The four hour ticket that had been short since Tuesday reached its first target and then closed at its trailing stop, 912.73 points in front of where it entered.

And then every single entry chart turned up. There is now nothing on the board at all.

Bitcoin is trading at 83042.

Zero tickets out of three entry charts. Every panel reads the same thing: Sell on H4, and nothing else.

We have published every day this month and that has not happened once. Gold on Wednesday had one of three. This is zero.

Why we publish this. Every entry, stop and target below is a level the indicator printed on a live chart, at the moment it printed, before price did anything about it. Nothing is back tested. Nothing is chosen after the fact. We publish the tickets that worked and the ones that did not, because a page that only shows you the winners teaches you nothing you can use. The point is to show how the panel is read and how position size follows from a stop. These are not trade recommendations and nothing here is financial advice.

1. The Ticket That Finished Properly

Here it is from entry to close.

Now look at where that closing level sits relative to the entry.

The entry was 84103.06. It closed at 83190.33. On a sell, that is 912.73 points in front of where the trade began.

The trailing level started at 86318.25 and ended at 83190.33. It travelled 3,127.92 points, and somewhere in the middle of that journey it crossed under the entry price.

That crossing is the whole thing. Before it, the level was limiting a loss. After it, the level was holding on to what the trade had already done. By the time price came back up and touched it, the stop was doing the second job, not the first.

What the tool does for you here: the level is recalculated as structure tightens, and the label changes from STOP LOSS to TRAILING STOP the moment it starts moving. You can watch it cross under your entry and know, at a glance, which of those two jobs it is currently doing. What the indicator does not do is move the order on your platform. That part is yours, and a level you can see but have not acted on is still your original 2215.19.

2. Why “Closed At Trailing Stop” Meant Something Good Here

That status line appears on this site often, and it means two opposite things depending on one number.

We published a GBP USD four hour on Friday with the same status line. It entered at 1.32028 and closed at 1.32479, which on a sell is above the entry. That one cost 45.1 pips, because its level never crossed.

Today’s Bitcoin ticket closed below its entry. Same words, opposite side, opposite outcome.

The status tells you the position is finished. The number tells you how. If you take one thing from this page, take that.

We have written the whole mechanism up, with four worked examples, in our guide to when to move your stop loss to break even.

3. The Honest Half

Price is 83042 right now. The entry was 84103.06.

Held to this moment, that position would be 1061.06 points in front rather than the 912.73 it closed at. So on this one trade, the trailing level finished about 148 points earlier than simply sitting there would have.

That is the trade you make with a trailing stop, and we have said it every time it has come up this month. The saving is certain and applies to every position. The cost is occasional, invisible at the time, and only ever measurable afterwards.

Today it cost 148 points. On Wednesday’s gold ticket it saved 36.61. Nobody can tell you in advance which kind of day today is, and anyone who claims they can does not need a stop at all.

4. Now There Is Nothing, And That Is The Output

The daily and the four hour still point down, so the verdict is still SELL.

But the fifteen minute, the thirty minute and the one hour all point up. Every one of them.

The panel will not build a sell ticket on a chart that is currently pointing the other way. So it issues no entry, no stop and no targets on any of the three, and waits for alignment. All three status lines read the same thing: Sell on H4.

That is not a failure. It is the answer.

A tool that always has something for you is not reading the market, it is manufacturing a reason to trade. The three charts that would normally give you an entry are, right now, pointing against the direction the two charts above them have set. There is no version of that which produces a sensible trade.

What the tool does for you here: a blank board is the cheapest thing you will see all week. The alternative, on a morning like this, is a trader deciding that one of those three charts is “close enough” and taking a sell into three timeframes that are rising.

5. So What Do You Actually Do Today

Three things, and none of them involve trading Bitcoin.

Go and look at other markets. This is the strongest argument there is for running the panel across more than one instrument. Bitcoin has nothing this morning. That tells you nothing about gold, the pound or the euro, and the only way to find out is to have the panel on them.

Note the level that would change it. The three entry charts have to turn back down before any of them builds a ticket. That is a specific, observable event rather than a feeling, and until it happens there is no trade here regardless of how the price action looks.

Do nothing, deliberately. A day without a position is not a day wasted. It is a day where your account did not move, which on the days you were going to be wrong is the best outcome available. Most trading losses are not caused by bad analysis. They are caused by trading on days that did not have a trade in them.

6. What The Lot Size Would Have Been

The stop distance is where position size comes from, and that four hour ticket is a useful example because the number is large.

2215.19 points of risk on the entry. The calculation is the same as always: your risk in money divided by the stop distance, divided by what one point is worth per lot.

On most brokers one lot of BTCUSD is one Bitcoin, which makes a one point move worth one dollar per lot. On that basis, a ten thousand dollar account risking half a percent, which is fifty dollars, would have been looking at about 0.02 lots.

Check your own contract specification before you use that number. Crypto specifications vary far more between brokers than forex or gold does, and some quote in a different contract size entirely. The method is identical everywhere. The inputs are not.

What the tool does for you here: the stop arrives measured, in points, on every ticket. That number is the only input the calculation needs, and it is the difference between choosing a position size and inheriting one.

Where The Levels Sit Now

With Bitcoin at 83042:

83190.33 is where the four hour ticket closed, 148 points above price. That is history now rather than a level to trade against, but it is worth knowing where the last one ended.

The unreached targets from that ticket sit at 79672.69 and 77457.50, which are 3,369 and 5,585 points below price. They are no longer live, because the ticket that owned them is finished.

There are no live levels on the board this morning. No entry, no stop and no target on any of the three entry charts, because none of them has a ticket. The next one appears when a chart turns back down and aligns with the verdict above it.

Those are the levels on the chart and how far price sits from each. None of it is a forecast.

What You Are Actually Buying

A trailing level you can read rather than guess at. Today it crossed the entry and closed the position in front. On Friday, on a different market, an identical status line meant 45.1 pips gone. The difference was one number and the panel showed it the whole way.

A verdict that holds while shorter charts change their minds. All three entry timeframes turned up overnight. The daily and the four hour did not, so the direction did not.

A measured stop on every ticket. 2215.19 points on this one. You cannot eyeball that, and without it the position size is a guess.

And a blank board when nothing qualifies, which is the feature nobody advertises and everybody needs. A tool that finds you a trade every single day is not a tool, it is a slot machine.

These four panels came from the Bitcoin and Ethereum Edition. The same panel runs on these editions, all live now:

• Gold and Silver Edition, the original and still the one most of our traders run
• 28 Pair Edition, $77, every major, minor and cross, which is how you have somewhere to look on a morning like this one
• Forex Majors Edition, $47, the seven majors
• EURUSD Edition, $7, the cheapest way to put the panel on a chart and watch it work for yourself

Direction Sniper prints all of it on your charts in MetaTrader and keeps it live. You still move the order on your platform yourself. The indicator does the arithmetic, the click is yours.

One question. When was the last day you deliberately did not trade? Tell us on the reviews and feedback page.

Trading foreign exchange, gold, cryptocurrencies and other leveraged products carries a high level of risk and is not suitable for everyone. The levels above describe where the indicator placed entries, stops and targets at the time the charts were read, and the status shown for each ticket is the status the panel displayed at that moment. Distances between an entry and a closing level are arithmetic on published levels and are not a statement of anyone’s result, which depends on position size, spread, slippage and how each trader manages an order. Figures describing what a closed position would have done if it had been held are hypothetical. A stop is a level rather than a guarantee, and gaps or fast markets can fill you past it, which applies with particular force to cryptocurrency outside normal market hours. Trailing a stop reduces the worst case on a position but also closes positions that may later have moved further. Lot sizing figures are arithmetic for illustration and are not a recommendation about how much anyone should trade. Cryptocurrency contract specifications vary widely between brokers, so check your own before applying any figure on this page. Nothing here is financial advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.

Bitcoin and Ethereum Forecast Today, 4 October 2026: Do All Timeframes Need to Agree?

Executive Summary

Both Bitcoin and Ethereum are in BUY mode this morning. The daily and four hour charts agree on both markets, so every smaller chart on both symbols spent the session hunting for buying opportunities only. Nothing was looking for a short.

Seven live tickets across the two markets. One target already reached. And one Bitcoin chart produced no ticket at all, which is the most useful thing on this page today.

Bitcoin is trading at 84,812.00. Ethereum is trading at 2,692.23.

Four tickets are currently sitting below their entry price. Three are above. One has banked its first target and moved its stop above entry.

If you only read one line today, read this one. Bitcoin and Ethereum are both saying buy, but they are not saying it with the same number of voices, and that difference is not a problem to solve.

Both Markets Have Permission

In the Direction Sniper method, the daily and four hour charts are the gatekeepers. They do not find entries. They grant permission. Their only job is to answer one question for the whole market: which direction am I allowed to trade today?

On Bitcoin this morning, both say BUY.

On Ethereum this morning, both say BUY.

That is the end of that decision. It does not get re opened by a smaller chart, it does not get re voted, and it does not soften because one lower timeframe looks hesitant. The gatekeepers have spoken and every entry chart below them now works inside that answer.

This is the part most traders get backwards. They treat all their charts as a committee where everyone gets an equal vote, then they wait for the committee to reach a unanimous decision. That is not how the structure works here. It is a chain of command, not a vote.

Bitcoin: Three Tickets From Four Charts

H4, the gatekeeper that also traded

The four hour chart gave the verdict and then produced a ticket of its own.

Entry at 85,290.32. The original stop loss sat at 82,768.33, which puts the risk on this trade at 2,521.99. That is the distance the tool measures everything else against. Target 1 at 87,812.31, Target 2 at 90,334.30, Target 3 at 92,856.30, each one placed at one, two and three times the risk.

The level is no longer labelled as a stop loss. It now reads as a trailing stop at 83,579.67, because price moved far enough for the tool to pull it up from where it started. The trade has not reached its first target, but it has already improved its own worst case by over eight hundred points.

Price is currently at 84,812.00, which is below the entry. This trade is behind. It is still open and the trailing stop is still well clear, but it is behind.

H1, the second entry

Entry at 84,888.01. Original stop at 84,544.51. Risk of 343.50. Target 1 at 85,231.51, then 85,575.01, then 85,918.52. The trailing stop has moved to 84,682.62.

Same direction as the four hour. Completely different size. The four hour is risking 2,521.99 points to make its first target. The one hour is risking 343.50. That is roughly one seventh of the exposure for the same directional idea.

Price at 84,812.00 is below this entry too, by 76 points.

M30, the chart that said nothing

The thirty minute chart carries the BUY verdict like every other chart on the symbol. And it produced no ticket.

Not a sell. Not a warning. Not a disagreement with the four hour. The thirty minute simply had no qualifying entry at the moment the panel was read. Its own row is pointing the other way, so the conditions it requires to open a buy are not present yet. It is waiting for alignment.

Here is what that cost the trader today: nothing.

The M30 holding back did not cancel the H4 ticket. It did not invalidate the H1 ticket. It did not stop the M15 from opening. It was one chart with nothing to offer, out of four, and the other three carried on exactly as they should.

M15, the tightest entry on the board

Entry at 84,828.00. Original stop at 84,728.04. Risk of 99.96. Target 1 at 84,927.96, then 85,027.92, then 85,127.88. Trailing stop now at 84,750.70.

Just under one hundred points of risk for the same BUY that the four hour is risking over two and a half thousand points to express. Price at 84,812.00 is sixteen points below entry, so this one is only just behind.

Bitcoin key levels to watch: the H4 trailing stop at 83,579.67 is the structural floor for the whole BUY idea. Above, the first meaningful shelf is the H1 Target 1 at 85,231.51, then the H4 Target 1 at 87,812.31.

Ethereum: Four Charts In Step

Ethereum is the clean version of the same picture, and it is sitting right next to Bitcoin today for a reason.

H4

Entry at 2,736.82. Risk of 88.33. Targets at 2,825.15, 2,913.47 and 3,001.80. The trailing stop has lifted to 2,659.30.

Price at 2,692.23 is below entry. Like the Bitcoin four hour, this is the widest and slowest position on the symbol and it is currently behind.

H1

Entry at 2,689.01. Risk of 10.60. Targets at 2,699.61, 2,710.21 and 2,720.81. Trailing stop at 2,680.29.

Price at 2,692.23 is above entry. This one is in front.

M30

Entry at 2,689.01, the same price the one hour took. Risk of 10.12. Targets at 2,699.13, 2,709.25 and 2,719.37. Trailing stop at 2,686.04.

Two charts entered at the same number with almost identical risk. That is what genuine agreement looks like when it happens, and notice that it is a description of what occurred, not a requirement that had to be met first.

M15, the one that has already paid

Entry at 2,685.06. Risk of 6.10, the smallest exposure on either market today. Target 1 at 2,691.16 has been reached.

And look at the stop. The trailing stop reads 2,691.56, which is above the entry price of 2,685.06. The level that started life below the trade as a stop loss has now been pulled past the entry. The trade can no longer give back more than it started with. The panel still calls it a trailing stop because that is what it is, but it is now protecting gain rather than limiting loss.

Six points of risk. First target reached. Stop above entry. That is the smallest ticket of the day doing the most finished work.

Ethereum key levels to watch: the H4 trailing stop at 2,659.30 holds the floor. Target 2 on the H1 at 2,710.21 is the next shelf of interest, then the H4 Target 1 at 2,825.15.

So Does Every Timeframe Need to Agree?

No. And today shows you why, with the two markets side by side as the comparison.

Ethereum had all four charts in step and produced four tickets. Bitcoin had one chart out of step and produced three. Both were correct. Both were trading the same verdict. The only difference was how many charts happened to be positioned to join at the moment the panel was read.

The two jobs are separate and they are not the same kind of decision.

The daily and four hour make one decision for the whole market: direction. That decision is binary and it is finished once it is made.

Each entry chart then makes its own much narrower decision: am I, on my own, positioned to take this entry right now? The Bitcoin M30 answered no. That answer applies to the M30 and to nothing else. It carries no authority over the M15, the H1 or the H4, because it was never answering their question.

Most traders invent a rule for themselves that every timeframe must line up before they act. It feels like discipline. It feels careful. In practice it means you only ever enter at the point of maximum agreement, and the point of maximum agreement is usually also the point of maximum extension, after the easiest part of the move has already happened. You end up paying for the comfort of unanimity with a worse price.

The working rule is simpler:

Take permission from above. Then take the entries from whichever charts are ready. The ones that are not ready will either catch up or they will not, and either way they cost you nothing by waiting.

That is the whole of it. The Bitcoin M30 sitting out today is not a flaw in the morning. It is the system telling you honestly that one of your four doors is not open yet, instead of pretending it is.

Where The Next Trades Are Likely To Come From

Both markets still have room to produce more tickets today, and the two obvious candidates are specific.

Bitcoin M30. This is the one to watch. The verdict is already BUY, which means the permission is in place and the only thing missing is the chart’s own entry condition. The moment that condition appears, a fourth Bitcoin ticket opens with a risk size that will sit somewhere between the M15’s 99.96 and the H1’s 343.50. Nothing has to change on the daily or four hour for this to happen. One chart just has to catch up.

Ethereum M15, again. It has reached Target 1 and its stop is above entry. If it continues toward Target 2 at 2,699.13 on the M30 and 2,699.61 on the H1, those two charts move into profit together and the whole Ethereum stack starts working in the same direction at the same time.

The two charts currently behind entry on both markets. The Bitcoin H4 at 85,290.32 and the Ethereum H4 at 2,736.82 are the slow positions. They are behind by design, because they entered on the widest structure. If price works back up through those entries, the biggest targets on the board come into play, and both have trailing stops that have already improved from where they started.

That is the honest state of play. Three things to watch, all of them described in terms of levels that are already printed on the chart, none of them a prediction about what price will do.

This Is What You Are Actually Buying

Everything above came from reading one panel on each chart. No drawing lines. No counting waves. No deciding whether the news was bullish. The panel told me the verdict, the entry, the stop, the risk and three targets, and it told me when one chart had nothing to offer instead of inventing a reason to trade.

That last part is the bit nobody sells you. Any tool can give you a signal. The useful ones tell you when they have nothing.

Direction Sniper puts that panel on your chart in MetaTrader and keeps it updated. You see the verdict from the gatekeeper charts, you see which entry charts have live tickets, you see the exact risk on each one and you see the targets placed at one, two and three times that risk. When a level starts trailing, the label changes so you know the trade has improved its own floor.

Two ways in, depending on what you trade:

Start at the bottom. The EURUSD Edition is $7. One pair, one license, the full panel. It exists so you can put it on a chart and decide for yourself whether reading the market this way suits you, without thinking about the money.

Go wide. The Forex Majors Edition and the 28 Pair Edition cover the pairs most people actually watch. The 28 Pair Edition at $77 works out to under three dollars a pair, which is the cheapest way into the full set.

If you want to see the same reading applied to a market where the two charts disagreed instead of agreed, read the AUD USD technical analysis page. It is the same structure producing an opposite answer, which is the fastest way to understand that the tool is reading rather than leaning.

Trading involves risk. The levels above describe where the indicator placed entries, stops and targets at the time the charts were read. They are not forecasts and they are not advice. Past readings do not indicate future results.

Bitcoin and Ethereum Price Forecast Today, 26 September 2026: A Live Ethereum Ticket and No Bitcoin Trade

Here is the Ethereum price prediction today, 26 September 2026, and I am publishing a live ticket that is currently losing.

Not a closed trade. Not a screenshot from last week. An open position, sitting below its entry price, with the trailing stop fifteen points away from being taken.

I have no idea how it ends. That is the point.

Ethereum Price Prediction Today: The H4 Has Turned and a Buy Ticket Is Live

Here is the panel in full:

• Sniper Direction: BUY
• Signal Entry: 2717.71
• Trailing Stop: 2672.16
• Target 1: 2787.78
• Target 2: 2857.85
• Target 3: 2927.92
• Entry timeframes: M15 DOWN, M30 DOWN, H1 DOWN
• Direction: H4 UP, D1 UP
• Status: Buy on H4

H4 has turned bullish and the daily is already up. Both gatekeepers agree, so Ethereum is authorised to buy, and because the H4 chart itself agrees with that verdict, it carries a complete ticket.

Now the honest part.

Ethereum is trading at 2687.81. The entry was 2717.71. That means this ticket is currently 29.90 below where it opened. It is not in profit. It has not reached a target. It has gone the wrong way since it fired.

And the trailing stop at 2672.16 sits just 15.65 below the current price.

So one of two things happens next. Either Ethereum turns and runs at Target 1 at 2787.78, or it drops another fifteen points and the trail closes the position.

I do not know which. Nobody does. What I can tell you is that the trail has already moved up from where it started, because it walked higher behind price during the rally into 21 September, and it has not come back down. Trailing levels on a buy only move one way.

Why This Is an H4 Trade and Not an M15 Trade

Look at the three entry timeframe rows again: M15 DOWN, M30 DOWN, H1 DOWN.

All three disagree with the BUY verdict.

That matters, and here is exactly what it means in practice. There is no short term Ethereum entry today. If you trade M15 or M30 or H1, the panel is giving you nothing and you wait.

The live ticket exists because the H4 chart itself is UP and agrees with the direction. That makes this a four hour trade: slower, with a wider stop, with targets seventy, one hundred and forty and two hundred and ten points away rather than the ten or twenty points a fifteen minute chart produces.

Different timeframe, different trade, different patience required. Do not take an H4 ticket and then manage it like an M15 scalp, and do not take it at all if the timeframe does not suit how you trade.

The panel is telling you all of this at a glance, in plain English, on one chart. That is the entire job.

Bitcoin Price Prediction Today: Still Standing Aside

Bitcoin, on the same morning, on the same tool:

• Sniper Direction: NO TRADE
• Entry timeframes: M15 UP, M30 UP, H1 UP
• Direction: H4 DOWN, D1 UP
• Status: Stand aside

Bitcoin is at 84,097.99 after running to nearly 88,000 earlier in the week and pulling back.

H4 is DOWN. D1 is UP. The two gatekeepers disagree, so there is no verdict, so there is no ticket on any timeframe. Not a smaller one. Not a provisional one. Nothing.

And notice something worth catching. All three Bitcoin entry timeframes are pointing UP right now. Three short term charts agreeing on a direction is exactly the confluence most traders are taught to wait for. Bitcoin still gets a NO TRADE, because the short term charts do not grant permission. Only H4 and D1 do that, and today they are arguing.

Two crypto markets. One tool. One gives you a complete ticket with an entry, a trailing stop and three targets. The other gives you the word Stand aside and nothing else.

No opinion was involved in either answer.

What Has To Stay True

For Ethereum. H4 and D1 must both stay UP. If either turns, the BUY verdict disappears and the ticket loses its justification immediately, regardless of where price is. The trailing stop at 2672.16 is the stop, it will move up on its own if Ethereum rallies, and it is not yours to move down.

For Bitcoin. H4 and D1 have to agree again before anything is issued. Either H4 turns UP and the verdict becomes BUY, or D1 turns DOWN and it becomes SELL. Until then Bitcoin stays on NO TRADE and you leave it alone, however convincing those three UP entry timeframes look.

For both. Crypto trades through the weekend while the metals and forex markets are shut. That is an opportunity and a risk at the same time. Thin weekend liquidity moves price further and faster on less volume, so position sizing matters more now than it will on Monday.

Get the Same Panel on Your Charts

Everything on this page came off one panel on one chart. The verdict, the entry, the trailing stop, the three targets, and the plain instruction to stand aside on the market that did not qualify.

No extra indicators. No deciding for yourself whether three timeframes pointing up is enough. No working out your own stop distance at eleven at night.

The Direction Sniper reads H4 and D1 for you and prints one verdict: BUY, SELL or NO TRADE. When a timeframe genuinely agrees with that verdict, it builds a complete ticket. When nothing agrees, it says so and gives you nothing, which is what Bitcoin got this morning.

The same engine that produced both readings above is behind the Gold and Silver Edition, which is where most traders start, because metals trend cleanly, the sessions are predictable, and you are not learning to read the panel through weekend crypto volatility.

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Read the Other Daily Sniper Reads

• Bitcoin and Ethereum price forecast
• Gold and silver price forecast
• EUR USD forecast

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the ethereum price prediction today, 26 September 2026?
The Direction Sniper reads H4 and D1 as both UP, giving a BUY verdict on Ethereum. The H4 chart carries a live ticket with an entry at 2717.71, a trailing stop at 2672.16 and targets at 2787.78, 2857.85 and 2927.92. Ethereum is trading at 2687.81, which is below the entry.

What is the bitcoin price prediction today?
NO TRADE. H4 is DOWN while D1 is UP, so the two direction timeframes disagree and no verdict is issued. The Status line reads Stand aside. Bitcoin is at 84,097.99.

Why is there no short term Ethereum entry?
M15, M30 and H1 are all DOWN and therefore disagree with the BUY verdict. No ticket is built on a timeframe that disagrees. The live ticket sits on H4 because H4 itself is UP.

Why does Bitcoin say NO TRADE when all three short term timeframes are up?
Because short term timeframes do not grant permission. H4 and D1 decide whether a trade exists at all, and today H4 is down while the daily is up. Without agreement between those two, nothing is issued on any chart.

Is the Ethereum ticket profitable?
No. At the time of writing it is 29.90 below its entry price and the trailing stop is 15.65 below current price. It is published here open and unresolved, exactly as it stands.

Bitcoin and Ethereum Price Forecast Today, 24 September 2026: No Trade on Both

Here is the bitcoin price prediction today, 24 September 2026, and it is the least exciting read I will publish this week.

The Direction Sniper says NO TRADE on Bitcoin. It says NO TRADE on Ethereum. The Status line on both charts reads Stand aside.

I am publishing it anyway, because the days I do nothing are the days that pay for the days I do something. And because what the panel refused to give me this morning is far more interesting than another winning ticket.

Bitcoin Price Prediction Today: The Panel Says Stand Aside

Read this panel slowly, because it contains the single best argument for owning this tool that I have shown you all month.

• Sniper Direction: NO TRADE
• Entry timeframes: M15 DOWN, M30 DOWN, H1 DOWN
• Direction: H4 DOWN, D1 UP
• Status: Stand aside

Look at the entry timeframes. Every single one of them is DOWN. M15 down. M30 down. H1 down. Bitcoin is trading at 83,906 after running hard into the middle of September and then rolling over.

If you were staring at this chart without the panel, you would short it. Of course you would. Three timeframes agreeing on a direction is exactly the confluence every trading course on the internet tells you to wait for. You would feel disciplined doing it. You would feel like you had followed a process.

And the Direction Sniper is telling you to do nothing.

The reason is one line further down. H4 is DOWN. D1 is UP.

The two timeframes that grant permission do not agree with each other. And when the gatekeepers disagree, there is no verdict, so there is no ticket, so there is nothing to trade. The panel does not average them out. It does not lean toward the lower one because the short term charts look convincing. It does not offer you a smaller position as a compromise.

It gives you nothing, and it puts Stand aside on your screen in plain English.

This is the exact spot where trading accounts die. A strong daily uptrend pulls back. The short term charts all flip down. The pullback looks identical to a reversal, because for the first few hours a pullback and a reversal are the same thing. You short it, the daily trend resumes, and you spend the rest of the week explaining to yourself what happened.

The panel cannot tell the future either. What it can do is refuse to pretend it knows.

Ethereum Price Prediction Today: Same Verdict, Different Reason

• Sniper Direction: NO TRADE
• Entry timeframes: M15 DOWN, M30 DOWN, H1 UP
• Direction: H4 DOWN, D1 UP
• Status: Stand aside

Ethereum is at 2,673.92 and the picture is even less settled than Bitcoin’s.

The same split sits at the top: H4 down, D1 up. But the entry timeframes cannot agree among themselves either. M15 and M30 are down while H1 is up. So on Ethereum you have disagreement at the permission level and disagreement at the entry level, stacked on top of each other.

There is no version of this chart where a ticket is justified, and the panel builds none.

Notice there is no Signal Entry row. No Stop Loss. No targets. Those lines only appear when the tool has something real to give you. The absence of them is not an error and it is not the indicator failing to load. It is the answer.

What a NO TRADE Day Actually Saves You

Here is the part nobody in this industry wants to put in a sales page, so I will.

Today my crypto charts made me nothing. Zero. Not a single ticket across two markets.

That is a good day.

Most traders do not lose money on the days they get a clean setup. They lose it on days exactly like this one, when the market is genuinely undecided and they decide for it. They take the trade because they have been watching the screen for two hours and feel they are owed something for the time. They take it because three lower timeframes agreed and that felt like enough. They take it because doing nothing feels like failing.

A tool that only ever says BUY or SELL will always find you a reason to be in the market. That is not a feature. That is a slot machine with a chart behind it.

The Direction Sniper has a third answer, and it uses it. When H4 and D1 disagree, it says NO TRADE and stops talking. You close the platform. You get your afternoon back. Your account balance is exactly where it was this morning, which on a day like today is a result.

Meanwhile, the Metals Gave Four Tickets

The same tool, on the same morning, on different markets, told a completely different story.

Gold’s H4 and D1 both pointed down, all three entry timeframes agreed, and it produced three complete tickets. Silver produced one. You can read the full gold and silver forecast here, including two trailing stops that walked past their own entry prices without anybody touching them.

That contrast is the whole point. The tool is not bullish. It is not bearish. It is not trying to be right about Bitcoin. It reads the timeframes in front of it and reports whether they agree, market by market, and it is perfectly willing to hand you four tickets on metals and none at all on crypto in the same ten minutes.

The Tool That Is Willing To Tell You To Do Nothing

The Direction Sniper puts one verdict at the top of your chart: BUY, SELL or NO TRADE.

When an entry timeframe genuinely agrees with that verdict, it builds you a complete ticket with an entry, a stop loss and three targets, all printed, nothing to calculate.

When the timeframes disagree, as they did on Bitcoin and Ethereum this morning, it says Stand aside, and it means it.

The same engine that told me to sit on my hands in crypto today handed me four complete tickets on the metals, and the Gold and Silver Edition is where most traders start. Gold and silver move with the kind of clean, sustained trends this method was built around, the sessions are predictable, and you are not fighting weekend gaps or exchange outages while you learn to read the panel.

You get alerts on M15, M30 and H1 by popup, push notification or email, so you are not tied to a screen waiting for a setup that may never arrive today.

👉 Get the Direction Sniper, Gold and Silver Edition here

Two minute install on MT4 or MT5. Works on whatever broker you already use.

Read the Other Daily Sniper Reads

• Bitcoin and Ethereum price forecast
• Gold and silver price forecast
• EUR USD forecast

Or follow the reads as they happen on Telegram and Facebook.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the bitcoin price prediction today, 24 September 2026?
The Direction Sniper shows NO TRADE on Bitcoin. H4 is DOWN while D1 is UP, so the two direction timeframes disagree and no verdict is issued. All three entry timeframes are DOWN, but without agreement at the direction level no ticket is built. Bitcoin is trading at 83,906.

What is the ethereum price prediction today?
Also NO TRADE. H4 is DOWN and D1 is UP, and the entry timeframes are split with M15 and M30 DOWN against H1 UP. Ethereum is trading at 2,673.92.

Should I buy or sell Bitcoin today?
The Direction Sniper is not issuing a ticket in either direction today, which means the conditions it requires are not present. This is education, not advice, and every trader is responsible for their own decisions.

Why does the panel say NO TRADE when every short term timeframe is down?
Because the short term timeframes do not grant permission. H4 and D1 decide whether a trade exists at all, and today they disagree with each other. A pullback in an uptrend and the start of a downtrend look identical for the first few hours, and the tool does not guess between them.

What does Stand aside mean?
It means no entry, no stop and no targets will be issued for that market until the direction timeframes agree again. It is an instruction to do nothing, not a fault with the indicator.

Trading foreign exchange, metals, cryptocurrencies and CFDs carries a high level of risk and may not be suitable for all investors. Cryptocurrency markets are especially volatile. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Everything on this page is education, not financial advice. Never risk money you cannot afford to lose.