What happened
Written from the data, not opinion.
Options positioning puts the call wall at 90,000 and the put wall at 80,000. Dealers are estimated to be long gamma, where dealer hedging tends to dampen moves.
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Bitcoin on Wednesday, 21 October 2026
Asia session: BTC fell 0.27 % (range 82,595–83,195); the bid wall at 82,584 was pulled at 03:30 UTC. BTC is up 0.91 % so far today, trading between 82,595 and 83,868. The high came at 13:05 UTC and the low at 05:50 UTC.
LIVE · BTCUSDT perpetual
83,736
▲ +0.91 % today
Low 82,595High 83,868
bid wall 82,750ask wall 83,950
– – open 82,985
00:0006:0012:0018:0024:00 UTC
Funding / 8 h+0.0087 %
longs pay · +9.6 % a year
Open interest189,469 BTC+2.1 % in 24 h · $15.87B
Next expiry17h 59m
max pain 82,500
Thu 22 Oct 08:00 UTC · 7,035 BTCBitcoin right now
Updated 21 Oct 2026, 14:00 UTC · refreshed every 5 minutes · descriptive data, not advice
- Bitcoin (BTCUSDT perpetual on Binance) is at 83,786 USD, +1.0 % since 00:00 UTC. Today's range so far: 82,595 to 83,939.
- Largest resting orders within 3 % of price: bid wall at 82,850 (302 BTC) and ask wall at 83,950 (897 BTC). All levels
- Options levels (estimated, all expiries): call wall 90,000, put wall 80,000, gamma flip 80,546.
- Liquidations in the last 24 hours on Binance, OKX and Bybit: $7.3M of longs and $44.6M of shorts. Liquidations · heatmap
- Funding is +0.0087 % per 8 hours (longs pay shorts), and open interest is 189,469 BTC ($15.87B) on Binance, Bybit and OKX. Funding and open interest
- Next options expiry: Thu 22 Oct 08:00 UTC, max pain 82,500; next monthly expiry 30 Oct, max pain 79,000. Max pain for every expiry
Levels around the price
±3.5 % around price · live, refreshed every 5 minutes
bid wallsask wallscall/put wall0DTEmax pain
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Sessions
Asia, London and New York, each summed up when it closes. Times follow local opening hours.
Asia
00:00–07:00 UTC
−0.27 %
- PulledBid wall 82,584 at 03:30 Open in Depth →
Long gamma · CW 82,750 · PW 80,000
London
07:00–13:30 UTC
+1.17 %
Wall events are measured when the session closes.
New York
13:30–20:00 UTC
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Liquidity wall events
Classified from every trade at the wall's own price, not from candles. What is a liquidity wall?
| Event | Wall | Time |
|---|---|---|
| No clean wall event today. A wall only counts when the trades at its own price prove what happened. | ||
Options positioning
Deribit, OKX and Bybit open interest, latest snapshot.
Estimated: dealers long gamma
Under the usual sign assumption, dealers buy dips and sell rallies to stay hedged, which tends to calm the market around big strikes.
| Call wall Strike with the most call gamma | 90,000 from 83,000 |
| Put wall Strike with the most put gamma | 80,000 |
| Gamma flip Where total dealer gamma changes sign | 80,423 from 80,839 |
| Call wall 0DTE Expiring within 24 hours | 84,000 from 82,750 |
| Put wall 0DTE Expiring within 24 hours | 82,500 |
Resting liquidity now
Largest walls within 2.5 % of price.
Largest bids below
- 82,750204 BTC
- 82,500149 BTC
- 82,600122 BTC
Largest asks above
- 83,950588 BTC
- 84,000310 BTC
- 84,700277 BTC
Next options expiries
Bar = open interest; monthly and quarterly in orange.
Thu 22 Octdaily
7,035 BTC · 1.6 %
max pain 82,50017h 59mFri 23 Octweekly
20,005 BTC · 4.6 %
max pain 82,5001d 17hSat 24 Octdaily
1,293 BTC · 0.3 %
max pain 83,0002d 17hSun 25 Octdaily
453 BTC · 0.1 %
max pain 83,5003d 17hFri 30 Octmonthly
149,535 BTC · 34.7 %
max pain 79,0008d 17hFri 06 Novweekly
12,307 BTC · 2.9 %
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Open DepthMethod. Price, volume and order book from Binance USDⓈ-M BTCUSDT. Option levels use open interest from Deribit, OKX and Bybit with the common assumption that dealers are long calls and short puts; it is an estimate, not measured positioning. A wall is "held" when trades hit it and price turned, "pulled" when it vanished within seconds with almost nothing traded, "eaten" when most of it was traded away. Times are UTC. Updated 21 Oct 13:10 UTC.