Will Bitcoin hold $60K? Leverage shakeout 'close to complete,' data suggests
8% daily losses are painful for longs but no problem for still bullish analysts. Bitcoin (BTC) extended its slide on Nov. 16 as BTC price action returned to test $60,000.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewBitcoin finally closes large CME gapData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD coming down 8% from Monday's local highs above $66,000.Bouncing at $60,350 on Bitstamp, the pair nonetheless traded at its lowest since Nov. 6. As leveraged traders felt the pain, optimism remained that the "shakeout" of positions on derivatives exchanges was....
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Bitcoin’s recent gains appear to have been driven by leverage-fuelled speculation, with open interest in futures and Binance’s leverage ratio pushing into new highs. On Nov. 4, crypto data market aggregator CryptoQuant published a chart indicating Binance’s Estimated Leverage Ratio — open interest divided by Bitcoin (BTC) reserves — has pushed into new all-time highs.The record was set on Nov. 3 after a spike in open interest pushed Binance’s ELR above 0.18 for the first time. The spike in ELR came shortly before Bitcoin established a double-bottom at roughly $13,400. New data suggests....
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