How Bitcoin Cash reacted to Initial Jobless Claims on 8 December 2022

The release

Released by the Department of Labor on 8 December 2022 at 8:30 AM EST. Initial Jobless Claims was unchanged at 209K for the week ending 3rd Dec.

It arrived at the same moment as Continued Jobless Claims, so the reaction measured on this page belongs to all of them together.

How Bitcoin Cash moved

Bitcoin Cash was at $109.60 when the figure came out. Fifteen minutes later it was unchanged, and an hour later 0.09% higher. Its high-to-low range in the hour after was 0.46% of its price, against 0.36% in the hour before.

Measured by Clometrix

Bitcoin Cash's volatility ratio was 1.67x, against 1.34x for a typical Initial Claims release since 2021. Its volume ratio was 1.00x, against a typical 1.52x. That is about what this release usually does. Both compare the quarter hour of the release with an ordinary quarter hour that same day, where 1.00x is no change: volatility is how far the price ranged, volume how much traded.

What made it matter

Since 2021, Initial Claims releases in the two weeks before a Fed decision have moved Bitcoin Cash about as much as those at other times: a median volatility ratio of 1.44x across 92, against 1.29x across 204. This one came out 6 days before the Federal Reserve's 14 December rate decision. Its own ratio of 1.67x compares with 1.44x for those, so it moved the price more than its circumstances alone would suggest.

Its record

Across 296 Initial Claims releases since 2021, Bitcoin Cash's median volatility ratio is 1.34x.

How it compares

Across 296 Initial Claims releases since 2021, Bitcoin Cash's usual price swing is 1.34x. This one was 1.25 times the usual.

MutedOrdinaryStrongExceptional

Thin line: Initial Claims's usual, 1.34x. Thick line: this release, 1.67x.

Minute by minute

Each row is the time after the release, with the same length of time before it for comparison.

After	High	Low	Close	Change	Range	Range before	Volume
1 minute	109.70	109.60	109.70	0.09%	0.09%	0.00%	104 BCH
5 minutes	109.70	109.40	109.50	-0.09%	0.27%	0.00%	221 BCH
10 minutes	109.90	109.40	109.70	0.09%	0.45%	0.09%	339 BCH
15 minutes	109.90	109.40	109.60	0.00%	0.45%	0.18%	395 BCH
30 minutes	109.90	109.40	109.70	0.09%	0.45%	0.27%	623 BCH
1 hour	109.90	109.40	109.70	0.09%	0.45%	0.36%	1,018 BCH
2 hours	110.30	109.40	110.20	0.54%	0.82%	1.00%	4,291 BCH
4 hours	112.30	109.40	110.50	0.81%	2.58%	1.00%	10,416 BCH
6 hours	112.30	109.40	112.10	2.23%	2.58%	1.00%	15,008 BCH
8 hours	112.30	108.90	110.50	1.00%	3.03%	1.19%	15,182 BCH
12 hours	112.30	109.40	112.20	2.32%	2.58%	1.45%	27,581 BCH

Every coin at this release

Coin	Price swing	Usual for Initial Claims	Reaction
Bitcoin	1.87x	1.52x	Ordinary
Ethereum	2.15x	1.47x	Strong
XRP	1.34x	1.18x	Quiet
BNB	1.49x	1.42x	Quiet
Solana	1.62x	1.39x	Ordinary
Dogecoin	2.21x	1.39x	Strong
TRON	1.13x	1.33x	Quiet
Cardano	2.00x	1.35x	Strong
Chainlink	2.97x	1.43x	Exceptional
Bitcoin Cash	1.67x	1.34x	Ordinary
Hedera	1.00x	1.32x	Quiet
Avalanche	1.51x	1.42x	Ordinary
Litecoin	1.59x	1.38x	Ordinary
Shiba Inu	1.69x	1.34x	Ordinary
Uniswap	1.36x	1.35x	Quiet
Polkadot	1.50x	1.31x	Ordinary
Aave	2.00x	1.38x	Strong
NEAR Protocol	1.02x	1.24x	Quiet
Aptos	2.00x	1.41x	Strong
Internet Computer	1.54x	1.46x	Ordinary
POL (prev. MATIC)	2.20x	1.42x	Strong
Filecoin	1.50x	1.27x	Ordinary

What is Initial Jobless Claims?

The weekly claims report is released Thursdays at 8:30 a.m. ET by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). Initial claims are new jobless claims filed by U.S. workers seeking unemployment compensation, included in the unemployment insurance weekly claims report. The report, published since 1967, includes a separate count of workers receiving unemployment insurance benefits, known as continuing claims.

Every Initial Claims release for Bitcoin Cash

Questions about this page

Is 1.67x a lot?

For an Initial Claims release it is ordinary: the usual is 1.34x. Each report has its own usual size, and its releases show it.

Will the next Initial Claims do the same?

Nobody can say. A forecast shows the range Bitcoin Cash moved in after past Initial Claims releases, so you can plan for the likely size of the move.

Do weekly jobless claims move crypto?

Weekly jobless claims have a median Bitcoin price swing of 1.52x since 2021, which places Initial Claims and Continued Claims in Tier 3. They are released at 8:30 a.m. ET. When a claims release falls on the same minute as a bigger report, such as CPI, the reaction belongs to both. Clometrix measures 296 claims releases in the record since 2021.

Disclaimer

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