Leverage traders 'flushed out' by late-February crypto crash: Glassnode
Crypto analytics provider Glassnode argues the late February BTC crash may have been a healthy reset that flushed excessive leverage out of the market. According to on-chain analytics provider, Glassnode, the late-February crypto market correction may have purged excessive leverage from the markets.On March 1, Glassnode published a report analyzing the recent crypto crash — which was only the second significant crypto correction since the markets pushed into new record highs in late 2020.Glassnode noted the crash peaked with a 25% fall from the local top of $58,300 to $43,343. As such, the....
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Data shows the Bitcoin crash from a few days ago flushed out $5.4 billion from futures open interest within the matter of hours. Cascade Of Long Liquidations Lead To 24.5% Reduction In Futures Open Interest As per the latest weekly report from Glassnode, when the price of Bitcoin crashed down to $42k a few days […]
Data shows following the crash, Bitcoin funding rates flipped to negative for the first time since September as market sentiment resets. Bitcoin Funding Rates Turn Negative For The First Time Since Late September As per the latest weekly report from Glassnode, market sentiment reset after the latest crash in BTC’s price as funding rates turned negative. The “perpetual funding rate” is an indicator that measures the periodic fee that Bitcoin futures traders have to pay each other to keep their positions. This metric helps us know about which direction leveraged positions....
Whales have been offloading their BTC this month after a sustained period of accumulation. According to a new report from crypto market data aggregator, Glassnode, Bitcoin whales offloaded massive amounts of BTC during February. Glassnode defines any address that holds between 1,000 BTC and 10,000 BTC as a “whale”, while “humpback whales” hold more than 10,000 BTC. The report found that the number of whales increased by more than 14% in the year to Feb. 5, 2021. Whales and humpbacks' buying spree peaked in January as they snapped up 80,000 BTC, worth $3.84 billion at today’s prices.But....
On-chain data shows the Bitcoin futures market has remained heated recently as leverage taken on by investors has been quite high. Bitcoin Estimated Leverage Ratio Declines A Bit, But Still Remains Very High Following the rise in derivative activities, the leverage in the market hit a new all-tine high recently, as noted by an analyst in a CryptoQuant post. The “all exchanges estimated leverage ratio” is an indicator that’s defined as the ratio between the open interest and the derivative exchange reserve. When the value of this metric is high, it means the average....
Bitcoin reached $42K before, but not with these characteristics. The market seems healthy and practically unleveraged. Greed is just showing its face after months of Fear. How did we get here? Calmly and consistently stacking sats, that’s how. What does this mean for the future of BTC’s price? Is the rocket about to take off? Related Reading | Volatility Inbound: Bitcoin Traders are Upping Their Leverage as Election Nears Before going into that, let’s look at the chart from Bitcoin Magazine’s Dylan LeClair. It gives the US Central Bank balance sheet a run for its money as the most....