{"id":74095,"date":"2026-02-26T17:31:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=74095"},"modified":"2026-02-26T17:31:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:31:35","slug":"whats-behind-bitcoins-10-am-drop-economist-says-data-tells-a-different-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=74095","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Behind Bitcoin&#8217;s 10 AM Drop? Economist Says Data Tells A Different Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Claims that <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) consistently &#8220;dumps&#8221; at 10 a.m. ET have gained traction online, but one economist says the data do not support a systematic pattern.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u201810 AM Dump&#8217; Not Backed By Data<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Alex Kr\u00fcger on Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/krugermacro\/status\/2026938914561507775?s=46\">pushed<\/a> back on the popular narrative after analyzing price action since Jan. 1. <\/p>\n<p>He said there is no statistical evidence of a recurring selloff tied specifically to the 10 a.m. U.S. market window.<\/p>\n<p>Kruger pointed to data from the <strong>iShares Bitcoin Trust<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/IBIT\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"IBIT\" data-exchange=\"NASDAQ\" rel=\"noopener\">(NASDAQ:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/IBIT\">IBIT<\/a>), which shows a cumulative return of +0.9% during the 10:00\u201310:30 a.m. period and \u20131% during the 10:00\u201310:15 window. <\/p>\n<p>He described those figures as noisy rather than indicative of a predictable daily drop.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, he said the price behaviour closely &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/02\/50899378\/whats-behind-bitcoins-10-am-drop-economist-says-data-tells-a-different-story?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"What's\" behind bitcoin am drop economist says data tells a different story>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claims that Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) consistently &#8220;dumps&#8221; at 10 a.m. ET have gained traction online, but one economist says the data do not support a systematic pattern. \u201810 AM Dump&#8217; Not Backed By Data Alex Kr\u00fcger on Thursday pushed back on the popular narrative after analyzing price action since Jan. 1. He said there is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-74095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}