ALPHAVILLE LIQUIDITY ALGORITHM™ November 2, 2026 Good Morning. We begin the first trading week of November with less cash available in the banking system and more pressure in overnight funding markets. Markets look relatively calm on the surface, but the flow of money underneath them is becoming tighter. That matters because sustained rallies need cash that can move into assets. QUICK READ Our Liquidity Score has fallen 0.6 points over the past week to 4.8 out of 10, placing conditions in the defensive Watchlist band. The Treasury’s cash balance has climbed to nearly $1 trillion, while bank reserves have fallen to $2.89 trillion. At the same time, overnight borrowing against Treasury collateral has become more expensive: SOFR stands at 3.94%, four basis points above the Fed’s 3.90% rate paid on bank reserves. A slightly weaker dollar provides some relief, but high bond yields and oil above $100 continue to weigh on markets. Within crypto, rising Tether dominance points to a defensive environment. The overall picture remains one of tight funding and limited support for a broad, sustained rally. ──────────────────── CREATION LAYER — TREASURY CASH BUILDUP The Treasury is pulling cash out of the financial system as it builds its own balance. The Treasury General Account has risen more than 5% in recent days to $999.73 billion. When money moves from private bank accounts into the Treasury’s account at the Fed, it reduces the cash available within the banking system until the government spends it. The Fed’s overnight reverse repo facility is down to $4.38 billion, leaving little of that cash cushion available to absorb further Treasury issuance. With that buffer largely depleted, additional borrowing can put more pressure on bank reserves. Bank reserves have fallen 2.32% to $2.89 trillion, below the $3 trillion level we monitor for signs of tighter conditions. This leaves banks with smaller cash buffers and makes the system more sensitive to further drains. ──────────────────── PLUMBING LAYER — OVERNIGHT CASH IS MORE EXPENSIVE Pressure is showing up in the market where banks, dealers, and other institutions borrow cash against securities such as Treasuries. SOFR, the benchmark for this borrowing, stands at 3.94%. That is four basis points above the Fed’s 3.90% interest rate on reserve balances. This gap signals tighter conditions in secured funding. Institutions are paying more to borrow overnight against high-quality collateral, which can reflect strong demand for cash, limits on dealer balance sheets, or both. Heavy Treasury inventories can add to that pressure because dealers must finance the bonds they hold. The effective federal funds rate remains orderly at 3.88%. Stress is therefore more visible in the repo market than in unsecured overnight lending. The system is still functioning, but financing Treasury collateral has become more expensive. ──────────────────── TRANSMISSION LAYER — SOME DOLLAR RELIEF, BUT YIELDS REMAIN HIGH The Dollar Index has slipped 0.31% to 101.65, easing some pressure on borrowers outside the United States. That helps, but it does not offset the weight of high Treasury yields. The 10-year yield stands at 4.923%, while the 30-year yield remains at 5.290%. Those borrowing costs continue to restrain the movement of money into risk assets. Oil has fallen 3.09% to $100.84 a barrel. The decline is welcome, but energy remains expensive enough to squeeze household and business budgets and complicate the Fed’s inflation outlook. The VIX has declined 0.98% to 19.22, showing that equity-market fear remains contained. That calm does not erase the funding pressure underneath the market. We can have relatively quiet trading while the cash needed to support a stronger rally remains limited. ──────────────────── CRYPTO LIQUIDITY — THE DEFENSIVE POSTURE CONTINUES Tether dominance has risen 0.48% to 6.952%, meaning USDT represents a larger share of the crypto market. This is consistent with defensive conditions, although dominance alone does not tell us how much money has moved into stablecoins. Bitcoin is trading around $77,774, below its 21-day exponential moving average at $80,201 and its 50-day moving average at $81,934. It has yet to reclaim either trend level. Combined with high bond yields and tighter funding conditions, this leaves crypto without strong confirmation that a sustained recovery is underway. ──────────────────── BOTTOM LINE Our Liquidity Score remains in the defensive Watchlist band because cash buffers are shrinking and overnight funding has become more expensive. The Treasury holds nearly $1 trillion, bank reserves sit at $2.89 trillion, and SOFR remains above the Fed’s rate on reserves. Treasury spending would return cash to the banking system. A sustained easing in repo rates would also signal that funding pressure is improving. Until those conditions improve, we stay disciplined with position sizes, honor stop losses, and resist chasing rallies before the funding backdrop supports them.

THE IDEOLOGICAL STANDOFF Why the Fed and Treasury Are Choking the Financial System Guys, what is happening right now between the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury makes zero macroeconomic sense. If you are feeling completely frustrated trying to map this out with traditional models (like me), you are not alone. Standard economic logic assumes that the Fed and the Treasury communicate and work together to keep the financial plumbing stable and running smoothly. Right now, they are doing the exact opposite. They are the ones driving this madness. Here is what is actually going on behind the curtain: 1. Why Is the Treasury Hoarding $1 Trillion in Cash? Look at your screens: the Treasury General Account (WTREGEN) just hit $999.73 billion. They sucked that cash right out of commercial bank reserves, driving them down to $2.89 trillion. The Treasury is playing two games: The “Treasury Twist” War Chest Officials want a massive pile of cash ready to fund aggressive bond buybacks. Their plan is to retire expensive, high-yielding old bonds and replace them by issuing short-term bills. They want a giant cash buffer built up first so they don't look weak or dependent on the Fed when they intervene. Pre-Funding 2027 Debt Limit Fears They know that late winter and spring of 2027 will bring another vicious political fight over the debt ceiling. Treasury officials would rather drain private bank reserves today than risk running completely out of cash during a government shutdown standoff next year. 2. Warsh’s Passive Squeeze Chairman Kevin Warsh has built his entire reputation arguing that the Fed's footprint on Wall Street is way too big and calling the balance sheet “bloated.” When he took office, he bought a small amount of paper to calm markets down. But over the last six weeks, he has deliberately allowed the Fed balance sheet to drift lower while the Treasury vacuums up $1 trillion in private cash. Warsh is stubbornly trying to prove that the Fed can step back without constantly bailing out Wall Street. He is intentionally looking the other way while SOFR trades at 3.94% because, in his mind, stepping in to rescue primary dealers who are choking on government debt creates “moral hazard.” 3. The Fed Is Trapped: Oil vs. PCE This is where the Fed is completely paralyzed: PCE inflation is relatively calm and controlled, which under normal conditions would give the Fed all the room in the world to ease interbank plumbing. WTI crude oil is over $102, with active tanker and naval mine risks in the Strait of Hormuz. Because crude oil is in triple digits, Warsh and the Fed are terrified. They believe that the second they step in to add cash to the repo pipes, oil traders will view it as fresh money-printing and send crude to $115, reigniting headline inflation. So they sit on their hands, look the other way, and pretend that repo stress is just “month-end plumbing noise.” THE REALITY FOR US If you feel lost, it’s because you are looking for a rational economic plan where none exists. This isn't economics—it is an ideological game of chicken. The Treasury is hoarding cash like a doomsday prepper, and the Fed is refusing to blink to prove its “independence” to Wall Street dealers. The math simply cannot hold. You cannot have: $102 crude oil $41.07 trillion in national debt rolling over Primary dealers bleeding cash paying 3.94% on overnight SOFR Commercial bank cash reserves crushed down to $2.89 trillion …without something snapping. They will continue to ignore it right up until a primary dealer fails an auction or overnight repo blows out by 50 basis points in a single morning. When that wall is hit, their ideological standoff ends, pride goes out the window, and Yield Curve Control (YCC) begins. Oh I know what the comments will read: Will the markets crash? When They Hit That Wall, Will There Be a Huge Market Crash? Maybe for a day or two history says... No. If it happens you will not see a prolonged crash. You are looking at a 48- to 72-hour window of acute friction, followed immediately by the Fed opening the monetary taps. Here is the exact mechanical sequence: The 24- to 48-Hour Plumbing Jam: If a primary dealer fails an auction or SOFR spikes by 50 basis points, the overnight lending pipes freeze. Because dealers and institutions are desperate for cash to settle their books, there is an immediate knee-jerk scramble for liquidity. You might see a sharp, violent shakeout across screens for a couple of days as leveraged players scramble to cover overnight margins. The Immediate Surrender (Within 48–72 Hours): The Federal Reserve cannot wait weeks or months. The U.S. Treasury market is the collateral base of the entire world; if government debt cannot clear, the federal government cannot fund its daily operations. Just like in September 2019 (when repo spiked to 10% and the Fed launched emergency repo facilities within 48 hours) and March 2020 (when the Treasury market seized and the Fed stepped in over a single weekend), central bank intervention is nearly instantaneous. The Pivot to Yield Curve Control (YCC): The moment the Fed steps in to unfreeze dealer balance sheets, Warsh’s ideological resistance is over. They cannot simply offer a temporary overnight repo loan when $41+ Trillion in sovereign debt is actively rolling over. The Fed will be forced to buy government paper outright, create new bank reserves, and place hard caps on Treasury yields (Yield Curve Control). The Bottom Line: Do not fear a prolonged market collapse. A plumbing freeze is not an economic depression—it is a temporary collateral traffic jam. That 48- to 72-hour shock is the exact event that forces the Fed’s total surrender and unleashes the greatest monetary expansion in history. The dip is short-lived; the monetary flood is the real move.

FED HOLDS RATES STEADY

Historically in a bullish trend which leads to a descending channel it takes 4-5 touches of the upper resistance band before a breakout. We are at the door step for the second leg of this bull. This is purely TA not fundamentals, not bond market or fed related. This is NOT a predictive tool (no crystal ball) but a probability tool.

Why the Best Rallies Happen on Zero News October 28, 2026 Most people spend their days glued to the news feeds. They wait for a headline, an economic release, or a central bank comment to give them permission to buy. Then yesterday evening arrives. Around 6:30 p.m., with no obvious major catalyst, crypto starts moving higher. For anyone watching only the headlines, the move seems to come out of nowhere. But markets do not need a news story to move. They need a change in the balance between buying and selling. Some of the cleanest rallies begin quietly, while attention is elsewhere and expectations are low. 1. The Work Often Happens Before the Rally During a tight volatility squeeze, price moves sideways within a narrow range. People lose interest. Some sell out of frustration. Others short because they assume the next move will be lower. But watch what happens to price when those sellers show up. If selling continues and price repeatedly holds the same floor, that suggests buyers are meeting the supply. They do not need to chase higher prices while sellers are willing to come to them. This is what absorption looks like: selling pressure produces less and less downward progress. A squeeze alone does not prove accumulation or guarantee an upward move. What matters is how price behaves inside it—whether support holds, declines become smaller, and buyers begin reclaiming short-term levels. The chart can start improving before there is anything exciting to report. 2. A Rally Does Not Always Need Huge Buying People often assume that a strong rally requires an enormous wave of new money. Sometimes the more important change is that there is less supply available at the current price. Once willing sellers have reduced their positions, even a modest increase in buying can move price sharply. Buyers have to offer more to find the next seller. If short sellers then cover and traders waiting on the sidelines begin entering, the move gains speed. What looked like a dead market an hour earlier suddenly looks strong. There does not have to be a new headline. The balance of orders has changed. That does not mean every quiet rally is spot accumulation. Thin liquidity and short covering can also produce fast moves. Whether the rally holds tells us more about its strength. 3. By the Time the Story Arrives, Price Has Already Moved News coverage often explains a rally after it begins. A reason is attached to the move, attention returns, and people finally feel comfortable buying. But that comfort usually comes at a higher price. An entry near an established support floor can offer a clearer point at which the setup is wrong. Once price has expanded far above that floor, the distance to a sensible stop is larger, or the trader has to wait for another setup. This is why we study the quiet periods. We look for a place where the potential reward justifies the risk before the move becomes obvious. The Advantage Is Preparation Entering early also means accepting that some squeezes will break downward. Position size and a clear exit are what keep a failed setup manageable. Being early has value only when the risk is controlled. Yesterday’s move is a reminder that markets do not wait for a headline to tell them what to do. Sometimes the selling fades, buyers gain control, and price moves before the explanation arrives. Our job is to recognize the setup, define the risk, and be ready when the balance shifts.

ONDO UPDATE October 27, 2026 ONDO’s 4-hour chart is tightening into a Bollinger Band squeeze, with the bands sitting between $0.4554 and $0.5140. This tells us volatility has fallen and a larger move may be building. The last time ONDO broke out of a similar compression, it rose 53% in a few days. That is useful context, but it does not guarantee the same result this time—or tell us which direction the next move will take. Momentum is starting to improve. The 4-hour RSI has turned up to 49.93, above its signal line at 42.61. Buyers are showing some life, though RSI is still around the neutral 50 level. The market internals tell us to be patient: • Spot flow: Net flow is negative by $34.34K over one hour and $88.23K over four hours. We are not yet seeing consistent spot buying to support the bounce. • Futures flow: Futures show positive flow of $58.72K over one hour and $261.35K over four hours while spot flow remains negative. That suggests derivatives are contributing to the move, but it does not establish how much leverage is being used or prove futures are driving the entire bounce. • Liquidations: Only $1.80K in total liquidations occurred over four hours. Activity is quiet, but this figure alone does not tell us how many short positions are waiting overhead. My read: The chart is setting up, and momentum is improving. But I want to see spot buying return and support the move before treating this as a high-conviction entry. ONDO stays on close watch for a PERP trade. BTW, there is no rule that says you can't trade volatility in a long-term investment.

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The Fed will not and cannot raise rates this week. Here is why: The Bond Market and Financial Plumbing Have Already Tightened Conditions My view: the Fed holds rates steady on Wednesday. Long-term borrowing costs, heavy Treasury refinancing, and pressure in funding markets already make another hike dangerous. • THE BOND MARKET HAS DONE MUCH OF THE WORK With the 10-year yield near 5% and longer yields above 5.3%, mortgages, business loans, and investment already face high borrowing costs. The Fed does not need another hike to tighten conditions. The bond market has delivered that pressure. • THE GOVERNMENT FACES A REFINANCING SQUEEZE Treasury rolls hundreds of billions of dollars in debt each week. Older, cheaper debt is being replaced at much higher rates. Another hike would add pressure to short-term financing costs and an already heavy federal interest bill. • THE LIQUIDITY CUSHION HAS SHRUNK Bank reserves sit around $2.96 trillion, while overnight reverse repo balances are nearly exhausted. There is far less cash in that facility to absorb Treasury-related drains. That leaves bank reserves more exposed when money moves into the Treasury’s account. The $3 trillion mark is a warning reference, rather than a fixed safety line for every bank. • OVERNIGHT FUNDING IS ALREADY TIGHT SOFR and effective fed funds are around 3.88%, close to the 3.90% interest paid on reserves. That narrow gap deserves attention, especially while dealers finance large Treasury inventories. It signals limited breathing room, although it does not by itself prove a funding freeze. • HIGH OIL IS ALREADY SLOWING THE ECONOMY Oil above $100 takes spending power away from households and raises business costs. Higher rates cannot reopen shipping routes or remove a physical supply shortage. They would add another burden to an economy already absorbing expensive energy. WHAT I EXPECT WEDNESDAY A hawkish hold: unchanged rates, with firm language on inflation. Inflation remains a problem. But another hike would add stress to borrowing, refinancing, and funding markets that are already under pressure. The Fed can keep talking tough while allowing existing financial conditions to do the work. BULLISH

The September Lesson and the Bear Trap Guys, this is what I am seeing on the charts right now, what happened back in September, and what I am watching for next. 1. What Happened in Early September: The Ceiling That Won't Budge Look at what happened between September 10th and September 22nd on the Tether Dominance (USDT.D) chart. When Tether Dominance rises, it means investors are selling their crypto and parking in cash. Back then, cash dominance was pushing up. The price was climbing, momentum (RSI) was rising, and the volatility bands were squeezing tight. To anyone looking at it on the surface, it looked ready to blast off. But look at where it stopped: it slammed directly into the 200-day moving average and the key moving average ceilings, got rejected hard, and crashed straight down into late September. That drop released trapped cash back into the crypto market. 2. The Psychology: Why Traders Fall Into the "Bear Trap" Right now, the chart is painting a very similar picture. The volatility bands are pinching again, cash dominance has drifted upward to around 6.88%, and momentum is rising. Here is the psychological trap at play: In a bull market, retail traders get conditioned to buy every single dip because it worked every time. Eventually, they buy the final top and get trapped. In a bear market, the exact opposite happens. Traders who made money shorting every bounce for 18 months get conditioned to think that shorting every pop is free money. They get cocky, they come in late, and they forget that markets never move in a straight line. When an asset hits a major historical wall, those late, over-confident positions become the fuel for a violent squeeze in the opposite direction. 3. What I Am Watching For Right Now Just like September, this upward push in cash dominance is running directly into heavy overhead resistance: The Resistance Shelf: Right above where we sit is the upper band and the September peak near 7.06%. Farther above that sits the 200-day moving average ceiling at 7.64%. The Test: Over the next 48 to 72 hours, with all the heavy economic data hitting the wire, cash dominance may try to push into that 7.06% resistance zone. The Confirmation: If price spikes into that ceiling and gets rejected—falling back under the moving averages—it will confirm that this cash run has topped out, just like it did in September. That rejection is what will unlock trapped cash, trigger the squeeze on late bears, and push the broader crypto market out of its falling channels.

THE BOND MARKET ALWAYS LEADS Under Powell, the Fed routinely reinvested rollovers and used SOMA operations ($10B to $15B weekly) to absorb Treasury issuance and keep market plumbing lubricated. Since Warsh took over, those operations have effectively gone cold. Here is the mechanical breakdown of why the numbers do not add up, what Warsh is doing, and how the sovereign debt trap forces the next liquidity flood. 1. The Fiscal Math Is Broken The math cannot work under current parameters: The Refinancing Wall: Rolling over debt originally issued at 0% to 1% into 2-years yielding ~4.70%, 10-years at 5.00%, and 30-years at 5.33% pushes annualized net interest payments on the sovereign debt past $1.3 to $1.5 trillion. Net interest alone is consuming roughly a third of all federal tax receipts. Add $104 crude oil keeping the headline inflation basket hot, and you have an energy tax squeezing the real economy while the Treasury's interest bill compounds exponentially. 2. Why Warsh Froze SOMA Purchases Warsh’s Core Ideology: For years, Warsh explicitly criticized quantitative easing and central bank "mission creep." His stated doctrine is that the Fed's balance sheet distorted price discovery across the entire yield curve. The "Volcker Bluff": By refusing to step in and monetize coupon issuance, Warsh is trying to re-establish central bank credibility and force the Treasury to curb spending. He wants market pricing to dictate long-end yields rather than Fed balance-sheet subsidization. The Catch: You cannot run an orthodox, tight-balance-sheet regime on a $36+ trillion debt pile when primary dealers are choking on coupon supply. It is an unsustainable ideological stand against sheer arithmetic. 3. The Transmission Mechanics: How the T-Bill Shift Stalled the Crisis If the Fed stopped buying coupons, why hasn't the entire system seized yet? Treasury’s T-Bill Hack: The Treasury has aggressively skewed issuance toward short-term Treasury bills rather than long-term bonds. They drained cash out of the Fed’s Reverse Repo facility (RRP) and commercial bank reserves to fund the government without breaking the 30-year bond market. The End of the Runway: That buffer is nearly exhausted. With the 10-year pinned at 5.00% and 30-year at 5.33%, private balance sheets and foreign central banks cannot absorb hundreds of billions in ongoing auctions without demanding even higher risk premiums. 4. The Inevitable Pivot: Yield Curve Control (YCC) & The Cash Inflow This is why your thesis of a massive eventual liquidity flood is mathematically sound: The Breaking Point: At >5% across the curve, regional bank balance sheets bleed, corporate refinancing freezes, and federal deficits balloon strictly from debt service. Warsh Will Be Forced to Capitulate: Ideology always surrenders to sovereign solvency. When auction tails widen and dealer inventories get congested, the Fed will have no choice: They must either cut the policy rate to lower the front end, Or resume SOMA coupon buying under the guise of "market functioning" (stealth Yield Curve Control). The Oil / Ceasefire Relief Valve: The moment geopolitical tensions ease and crude drops from $104 back into the $70–$80 zone, headline inflation prints will plummet. That provides the political cover Warsh needs to pivot without admitting defeat. When that pivot occurs, the tens of trillions parked in money markets and short paper earning 4.5%–5% will face rapid reinvestment risk. That capital will be forced out along the risk curve—flooding directly into long duration Treasuries, equities, and liquid crypto. The current stall is the standoff before the dam breaks: the Fed is playing chicken with the bond market, and the bond market always wins.