SOL Gains 0.33% This Week: Only 93 Weeks Were Stronger

SOLUSDT closed this week up 0.33%, with the latest close at 111.66 USDT, ranking 94th out of 200 weekly samples. Its position falls in the first half of the sample, and 93 weeks were stronger than this one. Read together, these numbers say something plain: the week did not fall, but it also did not produce any meaningful rebound, and the gain sits only in the upper-middle range of the historical sample. For anyone watching SOL contracts, the point is not the 0.33% itself, but the daily path behind it, from 121.54 USDT down to 109.07 USDT and then slowly back to 111.66 USDT. The end of 14 consecutive weeks of net inflows into Solana ETFs landed right at the tail of that path, and talk of weakening inflow momentum started showing up in Square discussions.

What the daily candles actually did

Here is the daily table first, then the key days.

Date	open	close	Change
2026-10-05	121.54 USDT	120.72 USDT	-0.67%
2026-10-06	120.72 USDT	120.65 USDT	-0.06%
2026-10-07	120.66 USDT	116.24 USDT	-3.66%
2026-10-08	116.24 USDT	109.57 USDT	-5.74%
2026-10-09	109.56 USDT	109.07 USDT	-0.45%
2026-10-10	109.07 USDT	110.04 USDT	0.89%
2026-10-11	110.03 USDT	111.3 USDT	1.15%
2026-10-12	111.29 USDT	111.66 USDT	0.33%

October 8 was the heaviest day of the week, opening at 116.24 USDT, closing at 109.57 USDT, and falling 5.74% in a single session, cutting straight through the earlier sideways range. A day before, October 7 had already dropped 3.66%, opening at 120.66 USDT and closing at 116.24 USDT, so the two days together took price from above 120 down to around 109. On October 9 the decline narrowed to 0.45%, opening at 109.56 USDT and closing at 109.07 USDT, which marked the bottom. The next three sessions closed higher: 0.89% on October 10, 1.15% on October 11, and 0.33% on October 12, lifting the close from 109.07 USDT back to 111.66 USDT. The week finished up only 0.33% because the earlier drop was large enough that the later bounce merely pulled the weekly candle back into positive territory. SOLUSDT is a Binance USDT-margined perpetual contract listed on 2020-09-14, with the contract type being a crypto USDT-margined perpetual, and this daily record is its actual tape for the week.

Where this week sits among 200 weeks

The weekly rank is 94th out of 200 weeks including this one, placing it in the first half of the sample. There were 93 weeks stronger than this one and 106 weeks weaker. In other words, this week is not among the worst, but it does not belong to the strongest group either. Put a few of the stronger weeks side by side and the gap is obvious: the week of 2023-01-09 gained 58.34%, the week of 2023-12-18 gained 58.77%, the week of 2023-01-02 gained 44.98%, the week of 2024-03-11 gained 39.77%, the week of 2023-11-06 gained 36.8%, the week of 2025-01-13 gained 34.01%, and the week of 2023-10-16 gained 32.45%. Every one of those weeks was stronger than this one, and some weeks that fell less than this one also rank ahead, such as the week of 2024-08-12 up 0.61%, the week of 2026-03-30 up 0.63%, the week of 2024-10-07 up 0.85%, the week of 2026-02-23 up 0.97%, and the week of 2024-09-09 up 0.96%. Their gains were small, yet they still sit ahead of this week. A 0.33% gain lands near the lower end of that list.

What popular Square posts say

Popular posts on Square argue that the end of 14 consecutive weeks of net inflows into Solana ETFs means the buying pressure that had been supported by ETF money is fading, and that SOL price may face short-term pressure (paraphrased, not the view of this site). That reading lines up with this week's daily candles: October 7 and October 8 fell 3.66% and 5.74% respectively, exactly the kind of window where funding-flow headlines tend to amplify moves. Other posts note that the end of net inflows does not equal the start of net outflows, since money simply stopped adding on one side, and price does not have to turn bearish immediately. Taken together, the disagreement on Square is not about whether momentum weakened, but about where price goes after it did. This week closed at 111.66 USDT, above the weekly low of 109.07 USDT, which shows there was still some absorption after the selling, though the posts do not agree on whether that absorption is strong enough.

Three honest points

First, the daily candles show October 7 opening at 120.66 USDT and October 8 opening at 116.24 USDT, with no gap between the two opens, meaning the decline was traded continuously rather than created by a single headline gap. Second, SOLUSDT is a perpetual contract, so highly leveraged positions face amplified margin pressure during a session like October 8 that fell 5.74%, and position sizing decides the outcome before direction does. Third, funding rates move with the balance of longs and shorts, and during a phase of weakening net inflows the rate direction can flip, so holding cost is not a constant. Fourth, this week's 0.33% gain and any talk of a "best week" can only be judged in hindsight; the 93 stronger weeks in the sample have already finished, and nobody can write next week's rank in advance.

How the fees work

The Binance contract default maker fee is 0.02%, and the default taker fee is 0.05%. After a 20% rebate, the actual maker fee paid is 0.016%, and the actual taker fee paid is 0.04%. These three figures are fixed tiers, unrelated to price direction, and apply the same way to longs and shorts.

Source: https://fapi.binance.com/fapi/v1/exchangeInfo

Data as of 2026-10-12; source: Binance official interface. Not investment advice.