Historical replay · EPIC/USD

Epic Chain Fell 22%, Spiked 31% and Closed Sunday Where It Started (October 2026)

On October 18, 2026, EPIC slid from $0.3077 to $0.2394 in five and a half hours, recovered through the afternoon, spiked to $0.3143 inside the 18:00 UTC hour on $526,000 and closed that hour 10% lower, ending the day down 2%. Replay a round trip in a token that had lost 52% in three sessions the week before.

Epic Chain's EPIC token came into the weekend of October 17 and 18, 2026 as the most damaged chart on the exchange. From $0.4593 on the morning of October 14 it fell to $0.2598 that day, to $0.2262 on October 15 and to $0.2113 on October 16, a 54% peak-to-trough decline in three sessions on many times its normal volume. Saturday brought a 16% bounce to $0.2839, with a high of $0.3308, as weekend traders bought the sell-off.

Sunday began by extending that bounce. The 02:00 UTC quarter-hour printed $0.3077 on $283,000, the busiest candle of the morning. Then the sellers returned: the price fell every hour from 03:00, the 05:00 hour lost 4% and the 07:00 hour took it to a low of $0.2394 at 07:30, 22% below the morning high in five and a half hours, on the heaviest candle of the decline at $127,000. The bounce from Saturday was gone.

The afternoon rebuilt it and the evening threw it away in one hour. From $0.2470 at 11:00 UTC the price recovered steadily to $0.2857 at 17:00 on growing volume. The 18:00 hour opened at $0.2858, printed $0.3143 in its second quarter-hour on $322,000, more than the whole of the previous four hours, and closed the hour at $0.2831, 10% below the spike. The rest of the evening drifted to a Sunday close of $0.2774, down 2.1% on the day on $4.4 million of volume, roughly where Saturday had ended.

Monday added a third act. The price slipped to $0.2623 at 01:00 UTC in thin trading, then the 04:00 and 05:00 hours took it from $0.2724 to $0.3090 on $400,000, and it was $0.3003 at 05:00 UTC, up 10.9% over 24 hours. The replay shows three complete swings of 20% to 30% in thirty hours in a token with $4 million of daily turnover: each was driven by a handful of candles carrying most of the volume, and each reversed as soon as that volume stopped. For traders it is a study in why the first hour of any move in a token this thin is the one to distrust.