Bitcoin peaked Wednesday. SOL, ZEC and NEAR peaked days laterBTCUSDT Perpetual ContractBYBIT:BTCUSDT.PSignalPilotLabsBitcoin's highest close of the week came on Wednesday 23 September, in the 04:00 UTC hour, at 87,132. Thirteen of the 29 biggest altcoins on Bybit made their highest close of that same week three to five days later, on Saturday or Sunday. SOL, ZEC and NEAR were three of them. The chart shows Bitcoin with SOL and ZEC laid over it in percent from the start of Monday 21 September. Bitcoin's weekend bounce stopped below its Wednesday high. SOL and ZEC went on to new highs for the week. Who peaked when Highest hourly close of the week, Monday 21 to Sunday 27 September: Monday morning, and never higher after: AVAX, XMR Monday to Wednesday, before Bitcoin: AKE, ETH, BNB, PEPE, UNI, PONS, DOGE The same hour as Bitcoin: XRP, HYPE, USELESS, FARTCOIN One to five hours after Bitcoin: ARB, TRUMP, BCH Saturday: ADA, LTC, TAO, ZEC Sunday: LINK, AAVE, SOL, WLD, ENA, SUI, NEAR, ONDO, PUMPFUN What came after From each coin's high of the week to its lowest hourly close through 16:00 UTC on 29 September, Bitcoin fell 5.1 percent. The thirteen weekend coins fell a median 11.9 percent. The other sixteen fell a median 15.3 percent. So peaking later did not mean falling further. By 16:00 UTC on the 29th, three of the thirteen, LINK, AAVE and PUMPFUN, were already back above their highs for the week. How the 30 were chosen The 30 largest crypto perpetuals on Bybit by trading volume in the week before, 17 to 23 September, so the drop itself could not pick the list. Four larger contracts were left out because Bybit itself classifies them as a stock, an ETF or a commodity: SanDisk, SOXL, gold and crude oil. How to read it yourself Put your coin and Bitcoin on the same 1 hour chart in percent, as above, or open both weekly candles and note which hour made each one's highest close. A new high on your coin while Bitcoin sits below its own is a fact about your coin. On its own, it is not a fact about the market. Two traps we nearly fell into Where you start the clock. Our first pass started counting on Thursday 24 September. That made Bitcoin look like the last coin to peak, on Sunday, when its real high for the week was Wednesday. A window that opens in the middle of a move hands you a fake top on its first bar. Where you stop it. We first froze the lows at 00:00 UTC on Tuesday 29 September. Nineteen of the thirty closed lower after that, fifteen of them on the 02:00 or 03:00 UTC close. So every drop here is stamped 16:00 UTC, 29 September, and none of them is called a bottom. Three coins printed a new low on that very close. What this does not tell you One week, thirty coins, one exchange. It does not say that a late peak warns of a bigger fall; this week it went the other way. It does not say where any of these go next. Observations, not recommendations.