2026-10-24 Daily Crypto Market Recap: Majors broadly decline, structure weakens
BTC rallied first and then pulled back throughout the day, closing at 79755.1, down 2.32% with a 3.25% range, making it the most resilient among the majors; ETH fell 4.23%, SOL fell 4.77%, XRP fell 3.44%, and DOGE fell 5.60%. The further down the list, the larger the decline, indicating that capital is contracting toward the anchor and risk appetite is declining. No news alerts were triggered that day, and there was no additional news-driven disturbance; this pullback was more about the structure itself playing out. BTC funding rates remain positive, but SOL and DOGE have turned negative on the OKX side, and long-short divergence is widening. On a day like this, the most important thing is not to look for a level to buy, but to first confirm which season of the cycle you are in, scale back both position size and leverage by one notch, and wait for the structure to give a direction again.