Bitcoin Shorts May Soon Get “Trapped” as Bulls Slow BTC’s Descent
Bitcoin’s price has found some stability following the recent market-wide selloff that helped send it down from highs of $11,200 to lows of $10,400 Bulls are ardently guarding against it seeing further near-term downside at the present moment There is a possibility that sellers will be able to continue pushing the market lower in the near-term, as turbulence within the stock market is providing an ideal background for bears to operate against One analyst is […]
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The entire market capitalization of all 10,800 cryptocurrencies in existence is down 2.8% on Monday as bitcoin has lost over 2.4% during the last 24 hours. Meanwhile, bitcoin shorts are rising again after bitcoin shorts tapped a two-year high on the derivatives exchange Bitfinex on June 25. Bitcoin Shorts Climb Higher Bitcoin (BTC) and digital markets, in general, have seen better days as BTC tapped an all-time high above the $64K handle three months ago but is still down 48.66% since then. Roughly 17 days ago, on Bitfinex, the number of BTC/USD short positions skyrocketed to levels not....
After today’s incredible Bitcoin move where the price climbed to $47.5k, shorts worth around $47 million liquidated within an hour. $47,000,000 In Bitcoin Futures Shorts Liquidate Within Just An Hour As pointed out by an analyst on Twitter, around $47 million in Bitcoin futures shorts have liquidated within an hour today. If you don’t know […]
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 […]
October has been a historically bullish month for Bitcoin but with the slow start to the month which proceeded into the last week of the month, it is understandable why a deviation from the norm was expected. However, this sentiment was quickly erased as the crypto market had taken a positive turn on Tuesday. By the close of the trading day on Wednesday, BTC’s price had surpassed $20,000. But what does the rejection at $21,000 say? Bitcoin Fails To Beat $21,000 Even with the momentum of the past two days, bitcoin had met a harsh rejection at the $21,000 level. Bears had quickly mounted....
The latest rally in BTC shorts is similar to what appeared ahead of the Elon Musk-led May 19 market crash. Bitcoin (BTC) bulls should brace for a potential onslaught from bears as the number of margined short positions on Bitfinex jumps by a little over 378%.Known to most by the ticker BTCUSD Shorts, the dataset records the number of bearish positions in the Bitcoin market. In simple terms, traders borrow funds from Bitfinex — their broker — to trade bet on bearish outcomes for the instrument BTC/USD. Meanwhile, the value of opened short positions is measured in BTC.The number of short....