Every NEAR story Whalio wrote up, placed on the hour it broke and read against what Binance spot order flow did next. The press was directional about 45 of them; the price went the way it leaned 21 times.
Read this as description, not cause. The window is 48.7 days of hourly candles, several stories often share a single hour, and nothing here separates one story's effect from the next or from whatever the market was doing anyway. What it does show honestly is how often the tone of the coverage and the direction of the flow simply failed to line up.
This map places 84 NEAR stories on the hour each one broke, across 48.7 days of hourly Binance spot candles from 28 August 2026 to 16 October 2026. 20 outside outlets reported them, alongside 1 of Whalio's own analysis pieces. The newswire called 38 of them positive, 7 negative and 39 neutral.
Of the 45 stories that took a side, the price moved the way the coverage leaned over the next four hours 21 times, or 47%. That is about what a coin toss would give, so in this window the tone of a story said little about the next four hours.
After positive stories the median move over the next four hours was -0.04%; after negative ones it was +0.06%. The order runs against the tone: negative stories were followed by the better median move.
In the four hours after each story, takers were net buyers 40 times out of 84 (48%). Of the 84 stories at least a day old, the median price move a full day later was +2.2%.
Stories cluster, often several to an hour, so a single move can be counted against more than one headline, and nothing here separates a story's effect from what NEAR was doing anyway. The figures are Binance spot only.
Hourly Binance spot close, with every story on the rail beneath it. Lanes carry the tone the newswire assigned, so position alone tells them apart. Hover a tick for the headline.
One dot per story, placed by the price move over the next four hours. The lane says what the press said; the horizontal position says what happened. Dots left of the zero line fell, right of it rose — the colour only repeats what the position already shows.
Click a column to re-sort; click a headline to open the write-up.
| Hour | Tone | Headline | Outlet | 1h | 4h | 24h | Net flow 4h |
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Built from Whalio's own Binance spot candles and its NEAR news pages · 16 October 2026, 14:59 UTC · all NEAR news