Weekend Market Action Sees Bitcoin Touch $24K, $1 Billion in Short Positions ...
Bitcoin and the crypto economy continue to see strong gains, as the price of the leading crypto-asset touched an all-time high on Saturday, December 19, 2020. That morning around 11:45 a.m. EST, bitcoin touched a price high at $24,217, but got pushed below the $24k handle shortly after. The entire cryptocurrency economy is up over 10% during the last seven days, as a number of crypto assets have seen some decent price gains. Bitcoin (BTC) jumped above the $24k mark touching a high of $24,217 on Saturday afternoon. At the time of publication, the leading crypto asset, in terms of market....
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New all-time highs in short liquidations — at least when measured in dollars — point to overly bearish market sentiment. Ether (ETH) is setting liquidation records this week as a comparatively modest price uptick reveals how bearish the market has become.Data from on-chain analytics platform CryptoQuant confirmed that United States dollar-denominated short liquidations hit a new all-time high on Oct. 25. Two days, half a billion dollars of ETH shortsIt is not just Bitcoin (BTC) causing the bears severe pain this week — data from exchanges also shows that Ethereum shorters have suffered....
The crypto market has been subject to large liquidation following the price crash. Coming out of the weekend, the market had recorded one of its worst crashes which saw bitcoin fall below the $30,000 territory for the first time this year. With this had come hundreds of millions in short liquidations. However, the bloodbath seems far from over as the market continues to crumble and liquidations have now run over the $1 billion mark. Crypto Traders Getting Rekt After the crash that rocked the market coming out of the weekend, crypto traders had taken a hard hit. However, like always, this....
Here's what's on as we head into the weekend in the bitcoin price, and a live trade. The week has now completed, and it’s time to take one last look at the bitcoin price before things draw to a close. Action, as we have said on a number of occasions this week, has been pretty flat, and we’ve not really had that many opportunities to get into the market on the back of any sustained movements. We did manage to get into a long entry a short while ago, however, and we remain in this position as this second analysis goes out. As such, we won’t be entering any fresh positions until this one....
Ethereum is following the general sentiment in the market as Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies make a run towards previous highs. The second cryptocurrency by market cap knocked some gains over today’s trading session but seems poised for a re-test of its lows before moving to the upside. Related Reading: LUNC Price Gains 50% Despite Kwon’s Troubles, What’s Driving It? At the time of writing, Ethereum (ETH) trades at $1,300 with a 2% profit in the last 24 hours and in the last week. Unlike in previous rallies, ETH’s price is lagging larger cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, the number one....
Here's what we are looking to trade in the bitcoin price for this evening's session out of Europe. The European session is now drawing to a close, and its time to perform the second of our twice daily bitcoin price watch analyses. As we mentioned this morning, action over the weekend was pretty flat – something of an anomaly when considered in line with the sharp, volatile action we’ve seen during the weekend over the last few months. As things have turned out, action throughout today’s session has mirrored that which we saw over the weekend. Specifically, we’ve not really seen any....