US Bitcoin ETFs Snap a Four-Day Losing Streak With a Modest $21.1 Million Inflow

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• US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded a net inflow of $21.1 million on October 9, 2026, according to data compiled by Farside Investors
• The modest inflow broke a four-day losing streak that saw net outflows of $89.8 million on October 5, $484.9 million on October 7, and $244.1 million on October 8
• The combined outflows over those four trading days totaled more than $800 million before the October 9 rebound arrested the slide

US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds returned to net positive territory on October 9, 2026, pulling in $21.1 million in new money after a rough stretch that had seen the category bleed hundreds of millions of dollars over the prior week, according to daily flow data tracked by Farside Investors. While modest in absolute terms, the inflow marked a meaningful shift in direction after four consecutive trading days of redemptions.

The preceding stretch had been difficult for the category. Bitcoin ETFs saw a net outflow of $89.8 million on October 5, followed by a sharper $484.9 million outflow on October 7, and another $244.1 million outflow on October 8, a run that cumulatively pulled more than $800 million out of the funds in just four trading sessions. The scale of the October 7 outflow in particular stood out as one of the larger single-day redemption totals the category had posted in recent months.

Spot Bitcoin ETFs, which allow investors to gain exposure to Bitcoin’s price through regulated brokerage accounts without directly holding the underlying asset, have become a widely watched barometer for institutional and retail sentiment toward the asset since the first wave of US funds launched in January 2024. Daily net flow figures, aggregated across all competing issuers, are closely tracked by traders and analysts as a real-time signal of whether money is moving into or out of regulated Bitcoin investment vehicles on any given day, often read alongside price action to gauge whether ETF demand is driving or merely following the market.

The return to positive flows on October 9 came at the end of a trading week, meaning it set the tone heading into the following weekend before US markets reopened the following Tuesday after the Columbus Day holiday. Because the October 9 data represents the final trading day before that extended closure, it stood as the most recent available flow figure for the category through the entire holiday weekend, since exchange-traded funds do not trade, and therefore generate no flow data, on days when US markets are closed.

Farside’s daily Bitcoin ETF flow table aggregates net creation and redemption activity across all major US spot Bitcoin ETF issuers, including funds from BlackRock, Fidelity, Grayscale, Bitwise and others, into a single combined figure for each trading day. The site does not break out which individual issuer drove the October 9 rebound, though the aggregate shift from heavy outflows to a small net inflow illustrates how quickly flow sentiment in the category can swing from one session to the next.