ARB price drops 27% as weekly gains cool
Arbitrum (ARB)
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Eugene Serbin
ambcrypto.com reported that Arbitrum (ARB) was the biggest loser this week, plummeting 27% after a prior 124% weekly increase. The sell-off appears to be a cooldown rather than a bearish trend reversal, with resistance forming in the $0.20 zone. Technical indicators show ARB’s RSI never entered overbought territory during the previous rally, suggesting the long weekly increase was not too extended.
The token is currently testing the mid-January resistance level at $0.20, where the recent price action has been rejected. If buyers hold key support, ARB could stabilize and attempt another move toward that resistance. The report notes that the move looks like a reaction to the prior surge rather than a shift in the overall bullish trend.
Other weekly winners included Venice Token (VVV), which gained over 35%, and Bitway (BTW), which rose 22%. Injective (INJ) also secured a spot on the leaderboard with a 10% climb. Meanwhile, other altcoins like Lisk and GreenHood saw massive percentage gains, while Safebit led the losers with a 67% drop.
How the market reacted
Whalio's own Binance spot order flow for ARB, measured when this story was written up on 13 September 2026. Not the outlet's figures.
Whalio data shows ARB trading at $0.1405 with a 24-hour buy ratio of 49.3%, indicating a near-even split between buyers and sellers. The 1-hour buy ratio sits lower at 42.3%, suggesting short-term selling pressure, while the 4-hour ratio is higher at 53.4%, indicating some medium-term accumulation. Volume delta for the hour is negative at -$20,800, reflecting immediate sell-side dominance, whereas the 4-hour delta is positive at +$86,659, showing net buying over a slightly longer timeframe. The cumulative volume delta (CVD) for the 24-hour period is -$694,398, meaning sellers have dominated the day overall. Despite the negative daily delta, the 4-hour positive delta suggests that buying pressure is attempting to build as the hour-by-hour selling subsides. This divergence implies that while immediate sentiment is bearish, there is underlying support forming over the last four hours.
The latest daily buy ratio of 46.4% sits at the 8th percentile of the last 324 days, against a median of 49.6% - among the weakest buying days it has had.
Was that an ordinary day?
The same Binance spot measurements for ARB, averaged over the days leading up to the story.
Comparing current activity to the preceding week, ARB experienced a 20.7% price decline over eight days. The weekly average buy ratio was 49.8%, which is nearly identical to the current 24-hour ratio of 49.3%, indicating that current buying behavior is consistent with the weekly average. However, the current spot volume is 0.18x the weekly average, signaling that trading activity has significantly cooled compared to the previous week's levels. Net volume delta for the week was positive at +$3,448,067, contrasting with the current negative daily delta. This suggests that while the week ended with net buying, the most recent 24 hours have seen a sharp reversal in flow direction.