Altcoins Crated in Oct. 10 Crypto Flash Crash as Bitcoin Held Up, Wiston Capital Says

Altcoins Crated in Oct. 10 Crypto Flash Crash as Bitcoin Held Up, Wiston Capital SaysWiston Capital’s Charlie Erth Says A Leverage Cascade Drove The Oct. 10 Break, with Altcoins Hit Hardest, and Lays Out The Signals He Will Track Before Adding Risk. Oct 12, 2025, 5:34 PM

Friday’s Crypto Sell-Off Was A Fast, Leverage-Driven Cascade That Crushed Altcoins Whitcoin Held Up Comparatively Better Founder Charlie Erth.

In a sunday post titled “Crypto Crumble,” Erth Said the Market Excluding Bitcoin, Ether and Stablecoins Fell About 33% In Roughly 25 minutes on Oct. 10 before bouncing to a loss of around 10.6%. HE ADDED THAT About $ 560 Billion, OR 13.1%, HAS BEEN ERRASED FROM TOTAL CRYPTO Market Value Since Oct. 6 and Cited $ 18.7 Billion in Liquidations Durying the Episode.

He Linked The ImMediate Trigger to President Donald Trump’s Truth Social Threat of An Additional 100% Tariff on Chinese Imports, But Argued The Slide Was ALREADY CLILEY CLILES – EQUITIES WESTIESS WECITIES WESTIESES WECITIES WESTIEES WESTIEES WESTIEES WESTIEES WESTIEES WESTIEES WESTIEES. “FELT DISTINCTLY FRIIL,” A DIVERGENCE HE DOOK as Advance Warning.

Bitcoin, He Said, “Behaved Largely as Expectioned.” It Fell, But Less The Long Tail, Leaving Bitcoin Near A Long-Running Uptrend from Late 2022 and Boosting ITS Market Share as non-bitcoin tokens Absorbed. Erth Said His Fund Emerged “Largely Unscathed” Because Positioning Had Already Been Defensively Tilted.

WHAT ERITH IS WATCHING NEXTErth Said He is Tracking Bitcoin’s 365-Day Exponential Moving AVERAGE as A Line That Separates Bullish from Corrective Regimes. HE Aded that a PullBack Toward the $ 100,000 Area and A Touch of that AVERAGE Wuld Not, by Itself, Overturn His Longer-Term View Provides The Level Holds-But a Sustaned Breer Wa.

He Also Pointed to Market Breadth Via Bitcoin’s Share of Total Crypto Value. Accorging to Erth, The Sell-Off Accelerated A Rotation Toward Highher-Liquidity Assets, Lifting Bitcoin Dominance. He said a Continued Rise in that Share Alongside Weak Breadth Wulde Argue for Caution in High-Beta Tokens Until Non-Bitcoin Charts Rebuild.

Beyond Bitcoin’s Own Levels, Erth Highlighted Strategy’s Equity As A Proxy for Leverage and Sentiment in the Ecosystem. He Noted that Roughly Four Years Ago a Decisive Move Below Its 365-Day Average Preceded A Major Bitcoin DrawDown. In his View, Holding Above that Trend Line Wuld Support the Resiliency Narrative; A Break Below Could Forehadow Renewed Selling Pressure.

Valativity is the Other Gauge. Erth Said the VIX – The equity “Fear Index” – Has Started to Climb and that Historically Better Entries Arrives Arrivesi Spikes Rather than Durying the Early Rise. That framing Implies patience on adding Risk While Equity-Valativity Stress Plays Out.

On Positioning, Erth Said He Remains Invested But Is Avoiding Leveverage and Is Carrying Cash “Waiting for the Dust to Settle.” He Said Moves of this Sort Have, in His Experience, Sometimes Preceded Broader Downturns, WHICH IS WHY HE HE Prefers to See The Above Signals Stabilize Before Increasing Exposure.

Erth Said the Sell-Off Inflicted Heavy Damage on Altcoins, While Bitcoin’s Month-To-Date Decline Is Modest and Comparable to Large-Cap Tech.

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