Bitcoin At $100K? $3 Billion In Shorts Are On The Line
Bitcoin is red hot again. Price reached $97,500 before dipping slightly lower to $97,000, and the markets are abuzz. Sellers anticipating Bitcoin’s upswing might be in for trouble. Figures reveal over $3 billion worth of short positions potentially being erased should Bitcoin move over the coveted $100,000 threshold. Related Reading: Bitcoin To Infinity? Venture Capitalist Says Crypto’s Value Vs. Dollar Has No Ceiling Massive Short Positions Clustered Below $100K According to Coinglass, there’s a heavy concentration of short positions across major exchanges like Binance, OKX, and....
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Bitcoin has recently fallen below a $32,000 critical hold point and in response, retail investors have taken this as an opportunity to make money from the falling bitcoin price. So far, retail investors have started loading up on shorts, an incredibly bearish metric for the market. Retail investors load up on shorts | Source: Twitter […]