Bitcoin Cash: The Level That Decides Now

Bitcoin Cash costs $273.80 this Thursday, 7.3 percent below its level 24 hours earlier. Bitcoin trades 0.6 percent higher over the same window. Both prices broke down on the evening of October 8, yet only one of them has come back: Bitcoin has recovered 88 percent of the decline, Bitcoin Cash 16 percent. Anyone holding BCH therefore faces a different question from the broad market, and the answer depends less on the price than on whether this weakness has a cause that outlasts a single trading day.

cryptoticker.io compiled this analysis itself on October 9, 2026, based on the daily prices of Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin at three trading venues. The two price pairs were examined over ten trading days.

Bitcoin Cash at $273.80: 16 percent of the slide recovered, Bitcoin 88 percent

The comparison starts on October 8. Bitcoin Cash stood at $300.20 before the slide, fell to $268.80 and now sits at $273.80. Bitcoin stood at $83,323, fell to $80,400 and now sits at $82,960.

Counting the distance between starting point and low as the full decline, Bitcoin has won back 88 percent of it and is only 0.4 percent away from where it began. Bitcoin Cash has won back 16 percent and is still 8.8 percent short. Measured from the low, that is 3.2 percent higher for Bitcoin and 1.9 percent for Bitcoin Cash.