How Bitcoin Cash reacted to the Personal Income and Outlays on 1 October 2021

The short answer

An ordinary reaction. In the 15 minutes after the figure came out, Bitcoin Cash's price swung 1.89 times as much as in a normal 15 minutes that day. For a Personal Income release, 1.69 times is usual. An hour later the price was unchanged.

1.89x

Ordinary

Trading (volume ratio)
1.53x
usual for Personal Income: 2.03x
Price at 8:30 AM
$535.80
15 minutes later
−0.71%
One hour later
+0.02%
range 0.95%, hour before 0.86%
BCH/USDT, 1 minute candles around the release, 8:30 AM America/New York

The dashed orange line is the release. Chart data from Binance.

Open
505.20
Close
546.20
24h change
7.51%
24h high
546.40
24h low
500.30
24h volume
103,491 BCH

The release

Released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis on 1 October 2021 at 8:30 AM EDT. The Personal Income and Outlays came in at 0.3% for August 2021, against 1.1% in July 2021. Personal income is still rising, but more slowly than before.

It arrived at the same moment as Personal Consumption Expenditures and Core Personal Consumption Expenditures, so the reaction measured on this page belongs to all of them together.

How Bitcoin Cash moved

Bitcoin Cash was at $535.80 when the figure came out. Fifteen minutes later it was 0.71% lower, and an hour later unchanged. Its high-to-low range in the hour after was 0.95% of its price, against 0.86% in the hour before.

Measured by Clometrix

Bitcoin Cash's volatility ratio was 1.89x, against 1.69x for a typical Personal Income release since 2021. Its volume ratio was 1.53x, against a typical 2.03x. 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, Personal Income 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 1.84x across 17, against 1.64x across 52. This one was not within two weeks of a Fed decision. Its own ratio of 1.89x compares with 1.64x for those, so it moved the price more than its circumstances alone would suggest.

Its record

Across 69 Personal Income releases since 2021, Bitcoin Cash's median volatility ratio is 1.69x.

How it compares

Across 69 Personal Income releases since 2021, Bitcoin Cash's usual price swing is 1.69x. This one was 1.12 times the usual.

MutedOrdinaryStrongExceptional

Thin line: Personal Income's usual, 1.69x. Thick line: this release, 1.89x.

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 536.20 534.10 534.10 -0.32% 0.39% 0.35% 73 BCH
5 minutes 536.20 533.50 533.80 -0.37% 0.50% 0.35% 357 BCH
10 minutes 536.20 532.60 534.50 -0.24% 0.67% 0.39% 818 BCH
15 minutes 536.20 531.70 532.00 -0.71% 0.84% 0.65% 1,183 BCH
30 minutes 536.20 531.70 533.00 -0.53% 0.84% 0.69% 2,324 BCH
1 hour 536.80 531.70 535.90 0.02% 0.95% 0.86% 3,783 BCH
2 hours 536.80 531.70 532.90 -0.54% 0.95% 2.84% 7,626 BCH
4 hours 542.00 529.20 539.00 0.59% 2.36% 4.76% 17,802 BCH
6 hours 542.00 529.20 539.80 0.74% 2.36% 6.62% 23,404 BCH
8 hours 542.00 512.20 539.00 4.77% 5.50% 3.34% 51,128 BCH
12 hours 546.40 529.20 546.20 1.90% 3.15% 6.97% 42,311 BCH

Every coin at this release

Coin Price swing Usual for Personal Income Reaction
Bitcoin 2.54x 2.03x Ordinary
Ethereum 2.29x 1.77x Ordinary
XRP 2.14x 1.81x Ordinary
BNB 1.89x 1.75x Ordinary
Solana 2.73x 1.57x Strong
Dogecoin 3.06x 1.52x Exceptional
TRON 2.82x 1.43x Strong
Cardano 2.86x 1.90x Strong
Chainlink 2.57x 1.62x Strong
Bitcoin Cash 1.89x 1.69x Ordinary
Hedera 2.89x 1.51x Strong
Avalanche 3.05x 1.55x Strong
Litecoin 1.72x 1.64x Ordinary
Shiba Inu 2.93x 1.75x Strong
Uniswap 2.16x 1.49x Strong
Polkadot 2.18x 1.50x Strong
Aave 2.46x 1.58x Strong
NEAR Protocol 2.82x 1.43x Strong
Internet Computer 2.15x 1.50x Strong
POL (prev. MATIC) 2.98x 1.60x Strong
Filecoin 2.48x 1.51x Strong

What is the Personal Income and Outlays?

Personal Income measures the change in the total value of income received from all sources by consumers. Income is closely correlated with consumer spending, which accounts for a majority of overall economic activity.

Every Personal Income release for Bitcoin Cash

Questions about this page

Is 1.89x a lot?

For a Personal Income release it is ordinary: the usual is 1.69x. Each report has its own usual size, and its releases show it.

Will the next Personal Income do the same?

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

What is PCE, and why does the Fed watch it?

PCE is the Personal Consumption Expenditures price index published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The Federal Reserve measures its 2 percent inflation goal with the PCE price index. PCE, Core PCE and Personal Income are released together at 8:30 a.m. ET and share one reaction. Their median Bitcoin price swing since 2021 is 2.03x, which places them in Tier 2.

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Disclaimer

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