Historical replay · BTC/USD
Bitcoin Whipsawed $1,245 in 15 Minutes on CPI (Nov 2026)
Bitcoin spiked to $74,770 and fell to $73,525 inside the 15 minutes after October's hot CPI report on November 10, 2026, then lost the $73,000 handle by the afternoon. Replay it in 15-minute steps.
Bitcoin spent the morning of Tuesday, November 10, in a band only about $350 wide on Binance, between roughly $74,120 and $74,470, as traders waited for the October consumer price index at 13:30 UTC. Each quarter-hour printed 20,000 to 44,000 trades.
The 13:30 candle did everything at once. It opened at $74,410.78, spiked to $74,770.01, then fell to $73,524.73 and closed at $73,897.71, on 161,229 trades, almost four times the previous candle. The report showed headline prices up 0.4% and core up 0.3%, both a tenth above forecasts, and futures moved to price a December Fed hike in full.
The first reaction did not last. Bitcoin climbed back to $74,843.82 by 15:00 UTC as US stocks opened, but the 15:30 candle broke lower on 166,413 trades, from $74,085.56 to a low of $72,866, as Treasury yields kept rising and Nvidia dragged the Nasdaq. The afternoon low was $72,727.27 at 16:30 UTC.
Replay it to see how a data release can produce a spike in both directions before the real trend shows itself: the first 15 minutes were noise around the number, while the move that stuck came an hour later, when the bond market had digested it.