Michael van de Poppe accumulates NEAR, AVAX, and TAO
Avalanche (AVAX)
Editor:
Eugene Serbin
tradersunion.com reports that Michael van de Poppe has returned his altcoin portfolio to $150,000 through targeted acquisitions. He accumulated NEAR between $1.20 and $1.80, adding more at $1.65 one month ago, while purchasing AVAX at $6.30 to $6.65 and TAO at $190 to $196. Van de Poppe previously forecasted Bitcoin could advance to $81,000 or dip near $74,000 before recovery. He also commented on the return of a bull market as Bitcoin approached $80,000.
How the market reacted
Whalio's own Binance spot order flow for AVAX, measured when this story was written up on 21 September 2026. Not the outlet's figures.
AVAX is trading at $11.31 with a 1-hour buy ratio of 50.6%, which is higher than the 49.8% seen over 4 hours and the 48.8% over 24 hours. This indicates that buying pressure is building in the short term, as the buy ratio measures the proportion of trades executed by buyers versus sellers. However, the volume delta shows a net outflow of -$55,364 in the last hour, meaning the total value of sell orders exceeded buy orders despite the higher ratio. Over 4 hours, the volume delta is -$65,012, and over 24 hours it is -$3,412,539, suggesting that while buyers are active, sellers are dominating the volume flow. The spot volume for the day was $151,380,013 across 1,556,381 trades.
The latest daily buy ratio of 48.6% sits at the 40th percentile of the last 323 days, against a median of 49.2% - ordinary for this coin.
Was that an ordinary day?
The same Binance spot measurements for AVAX, averaged over the days leading up to the story.
Over the preceding week, the average buy ratio was 47.3%, making the current 24-hour reading of 48.8% slightly above average by 1.5 points. Trading volume was 4.90x the average, indicating an unusual level of activity compared to typical days. The price increased by 55.2% over eight days, yet the total volume delta for that period was -$11,852,971. This suggests that despite the price surge, selling pressure has been significant over the longer timeframe. Only one day out of seven recorded net buying, highlighting that this recent activity is an outlier in terms of volume but not necessarily sustained buying.