US spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds recorded net outflows of $261.4 million on Wednesday 14 October 2026, the day the September inflation report came in hotter than expected, according to Farside Investors. The outflow erased more than all of Tuesday’s $175.7 million inflow. Fidelity’s FBTC lost $152.7 million and BlackRock’s IBIT lost $110.9 million; Bitwise’s BITB added $2.2 million. Investing.com, citing SoSoValue, put the day at −$261.5 million (Investing.com, 15 October 2026), a $0.1 million difference from Farside that reflects rounding.
Bitcoin closed Wednesday at $81,566 on Coinbase, down 1.85%, and traded near $80,760 at 06:15 UTC on Thursday. Our main report covers the market reaction; this update covers the fund flows.
The daily table
| Date (2026) | IBIT | FBTC | Others | Total (US$ million) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Oct | −207.7 | −105.1 | −172.1 | −484.9 |
| 8 Oct | −5.5 | −197.1 | −41.5 | −244.1 |
| 9 Oct | +22.4 | −3.6 | +2.3 | +21.1 |
| 12 Oct | −65.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | −65.4 |
| 13 Oct | +65.9 | +103.1 | +6.7 | +175.7 |
| 14 Oct | −110.9 | −152.7 | +2.2 | −261.4 |
“Others” is every other fund, including GBTC, ARKB, BITB, HODL and MSBT, taken from Farside’s totals. Figures are Farside’s published numbers, which the site says may contain errors; they are in US dollars, in millions, and are reported by trading date.
October so far
Adding Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s figures to the Farside running tally in our 13 October update (−$451.7 million through 12 October) gives a month-to-date net of about −$537 million after 10 trading days. By fund, our running tally is IBIT +$244.5 million, FBTC −$461.3 million, GBTC −$78.9 million and all others −$241.7 million. A second tracker, TFTC, has the month at −$278.4 million through 13 October, against −$276.0 million on our Farside-based tally, so the two series agree to within about $2 million.
Wednesday’s outflow was the second largest of the month. Only 7 October, at −$484.9 million, was bigger; 8 October, at −$244.1 million, was the third. On all three of those days both IBIT and FBTC were net sellers. On the other side, October opened with two inflow days of $102.7 million and $189.8 million, according to TFTC, so the month is now a story of a strong first week that has been undone by three large outflow days.
Fidelity again
FBTC has now lost $461.3 million in October by our tally. Set Fidelity’s fund aside and the rest of the sector’s October net would be about −$76 million, because IBIT’s +$244.5 million nearly offsets the other funds’ combined outflow. Whether Fidelity’s selling is an investor decision, a reallocation inside platforms that offer both funds or a single large holder is not something the daily flow tables can show, and we do not claim to know.
IBIT remains the month’s only large net-positive fund at +$244.5 million, but it reversed on Wednesday, and the fund’s shares closed at $46.24, down 1.89% from $47.13, according to Yahoo Finance data. The fund’s price tracks bitcoin, so that move is the same story as the underlying asset’s fall.
The longer view: BlackRock’s quarter
Daily flows look worse next to the quarterly picture. BlackRock reported in its third-quarter earnings release that its digital-asset assets under management were $79.6 billion at the end of September, up 63% from $48.8 billion at the end of June, according to CoinDesk (CoinDesk, 14 October 2026). Of the $30.8 billion increase, $22.9 billion came from price gains and $7.9 billion from investor inflows. Holdings are still about 23% below the nearly $104 billion a year earlier, and over 12 months investors added $6.3 billion while falling prices erased $30.6 billion.
The figure covers all of BlackRock’s digital-asset products, not only IBIT; the company did not give a separate bitcoin-fund breakdown in the figures CoinDesk reported. The takeaway is about the size of flows relative to price: the quarter’s gain came mostly from higher prices, and flows were a minor driver. That is also true on the way down. A $261 million outflow is small beside tens of billions of fund assets, but it has been a useful indicator of day-to-day sentiment.
What to watch next
Thursday’s figures will be published after the US close. The test is whether the outflow continues as the Kospi and Nikkei selloff reaches Wall Street, or whether buyers return at around $80,000. Fed officials meet on 27–28 October; the inflation data in our 14 October preview has already moved rate expectations. For how often volatility spikes have hurt bitcoin this past year, see our VIX analysis.
Method: bitcoin and ether prices, highs, lows and closes are Coinbase Exchange candles (UTC day or UTC hour) pulled by Bitcoin Mastery at about 06:15 UTC on Thursday 15 October 2026; the 15 October candle is still open at that time, so any closing figure quoted is the 14 October close unless stated. Index, VIX, dollar-index and Brent figures are Yahoo Finance daily data; Asian sessions had not all closed at pull time (the Kospi closes at 06:30 UTC), so Kospi levels are intraday. Other third-party figures are attributed to their source and date. ETF flow figures are Farside Investors’ published daily table (US$ million, by trading date) read at about 06:15 UTC on 15 October 2026; TFTC and SoSoValue differ by small amounts. Month-to-date totals are our arithmetic from the earlier Farside tally. BlackRock figures come from CoinDesk’s report of its Q3 earnings release.
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