Asia Colour - 4 Apr 25
1/ Liberation Day or Liquidation Day?
President Trump reignites global trade tensions with a sweeping 10% tariff on all U.S. imports. Markets react swiftly — and painfully.

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Know that RSI is a Relative Strength Index (RSI), a momentum indicator.

Initially, people used overbought/oversold conditions to understand it. In recent years, people have used RSI divergence to analyze charts.

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Binance recently officially announced its project listing roadmap and detailed registration instructions, revealing the entire "path" a crypto project can take from its very early stages to being listed...

Binance announces its process and criteria for listing digital assets.

Original title: State of Crypto Q4 2025: Younger investors are rewriting the investing playbook
Original source: Coinbase
Original translation by Chopper, Foresight News
For decades, the path Americans have taken to accumulate wealth has remained largely unchanged: find a good job, buy property, invest in stocks, and then wait for the returns to compound over time. However, our latest Cryptocurrency Industry Report shows...

Coinbase: Say Goodbye to Buying Houses and Speculating in Stocks, Cryptocurrency Becomes the Main Battleground for Young People's Wealth

2/ $BTC drops from $88.5K to $81.2K, triggering over $221M in long liquidations. The move erased prior gains and hit $BTC harder than $ETH.
U.S. equities also sold off. Nasdaq futures fell 4.28%, while consumer names with Asia-linked supply chains saw double-digit losses.

3/ With the tariff shock largely priced in, the focus now shifts to tonight’s U.S. non-farm payrolls.
A softer print could be the catalyst for a Fed pivot. Markets are currently pricing in four 25bps rate cuts this year.

4/ On the options desk, we're seeing continued demand for downside protection. Short-term vols remain elevated, reflecting cautious sentiment across crypto and traditional risk assets.

5/ However, positioning is now light. Risk assets look oversold.
Conditions may be aligning for a tactical bounce — but the path forward depends heavily on incoming macro data.

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