{"id":92298,"date":"2026-10-19T06:10:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T10:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2026\/u-s-spot-bitcoin-etfs-lost-about-910-million-in-two-weeks-as-october-flows-turned-negative.html"},"modified":"2026-10-19T06:10:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T10:10:38","slug":"u-s-spot-bitcoin-etfs-lost-about-910-million-in-two-weeks-as-october-flows-turned-negative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2026\/u-s-spot-bitcoin-etfs-lost-about-910-million-in-two-weeks-as-october-flows-turned-negative.html","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Spot Bitcoin ETFs Lost About $910 Million in Two Weeks as October Flows Turned Negative:"},"content":{"rendered":"

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HedgeCo.Net \u2014 U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds posted net outflows of $228.6 million in the week ended Friday, October 16, according to SoSoValue data cited by Decrypt, following a $681.1 million drain the week before. That brings two-week redemptions to roughly $910 million and leaves the funds down about $615 million for October after they opened the month with roughly $293 million of inflows.<\/p>\n

Friday’s session alone saw $82.4 million leave the funds. BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust accounted for $71.8 million of that and Fidelity’s Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund for $10.6 million, according to Farside Investors data relayed by a KuCoin market update. Spot ether ETFs lost $69.7 million the same day and are down about $955 million for the month, the same data showed.<\/p>\n

The week was choppy rather than one-directional. A $175.7 million inflow on Tuesday was more than wiped out by $261.4 million in redemptions on Wednesday, the week’s worst session, before a modest $5.1 million inflow on Thursday, Decrypt reported. Wednesday’s selling coincided with a consumer price index reading showing 3.7% annual inflation in September, above the 3.6% forecast, which revived bets on further Federal Reserve rate increases.<\/p>\n

Price action reinforced the caution. Bitcoin briefly slipped below $80,000 on Thursday, and nearly $950 million of leveraged crypto positions were liquidated over 24 hours, about 90% of them long bets, according to CoinGlass data cited by Decrypt. That move pushed bitcoin below the average ETF holder’s estimated cost basis near $82,300, a Nexo analyst said. Bitcoin closed Friday near $81,590.<\/p>\n

Even with the outflows, the products remain a fixture of institutional crypto exposure, with cumulative net inflows of $57.3 billion since their January 2024 launch and total net assets of about $104 billion, per SoSoValue. For allocators and crypto fund managers, the flow data is a real-time read on adviser and institutional sentiment, and this month it has moved closely with interest-rate expectations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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