Reason: RIOT's sharp reversal fully faded - RSI cooled back to 44.8 (from 49.1) with the week now essentially flat, down from +23.38%; HOOD's decline reaccelerated (-12.79% 7D, was -5.05%); BTC-USD held roughly flat; DOGE-USD's change metrics still read exactly flat, a data-quality flag rather than a market signal.

Tape Read

$RIOT's sharp bounce faded almost entirely: RSI cooled to 44.8 (down from 49.1), 7D essentially flat at -1.16% (was +23.38%), and the 30-day print worsened to -23.46% (was -17.83%) — last cycle's "sharpest single-name reversal in the complex" needed a confirming week and instead gave most of it back. $HOOD's decline reaccelerated: RSI 41.0 (down slightly from 42.3), 7D -12.79% (was -5.05%, so the pace of decline sped back up rather than continuing to slow), -39.71% off its 52-week high (was -33.98%), still strong-down and death-crossed. $BTC-USD, on its UTC-dated bar (2026-07-29 — crypto trades continuously, so the newest bar carries the next UTC date), held roughly flat: RSI 48.7 (down slightly from 50.3), 7D -3.27%, 30D +6.32% (was +7.58%), still downtrend regime and death-crossed, -49.33% off its 52-week high. $DOGE-USD, same UTC-dated bar, again shows RSI 37.6 with change1d/change7d/change30d all reading exactly 0.00% — the same flat print as last cycle. Two straight cycles of an exact zero across three separate windows reads more like a rounding-precision artifact in the summary (price rounds to $0.07) than genuine market stillness; the desk can't tell the difference from this file alone, so this is flagged as a data-quality gap rather than a signal. Source: full-scan pre-computed summaries — $HOOD and $RIOT as of the settled 2026-07-28 session, $BTC-USD and $DOGE-USD on the rolling UTC 2026-07-29 crypto bar — crypto.

• $RIOT — PASS (downgraded from WATCH): RSI 44.8 (down from 49.1), 7D back to -1.16% (was +23.38%) — last cycle's sharp reversal faded almost completely without a confirming week.
• $HOOD — PASS: RSI 41.0 (down slightly from 42.3), 7D -12.79% (worse than -5.05%) — the decline's pace sped back up, still no relative-strength edge.
• $BTC-USD (UTC-dated 2026-07-29 bar) — PASS: RSI 48.7 (down slightly from 50.3), downtrend regime unchanged, -49.33% off 52wk high — still no reversal signal.
• $DOGE-USD (UTC-dated 2026-07-29 bar) — PASS / missing-data flag: change1d/7d/30d all read exactly 0.00% for a second straight cycle — treat as a probable rounding/staleness artifact, not confirmation of a flat market, pending a fresher pull.

Lead pick: Still nobody in this complex is a clean add. $RIOT was the one name with a real signal last cycle, and that signal mostly evaporated without a second confirming week — the desk's read that it "needs confirmation before calling it a floor" turned out to be the right caution.

Sources

• Tape data (price/RSI/SMA/returns): full-scan pre-computed summaries — $HOOD and $RIOT as of the settled 2026-07-28 session; $BTC-USD and $DOGE-USD on the rolling UTC 2026-07-29 crypto bar — crypto.