Bitcoin Price Drops Below $50,000, Over $1 Billion In Trades Liquidated
The recent drop in bitcoin’s price has contributed to margin liquidations exceeding $1 billion.Over the last 24 hours, bitcoin’s price has dropped by approximately 9% as more than $1,000,000,000 of leveraged bitcoin long positions have been liquidated across various exchanges. Liquidated long positions over the last 24 hours The pullback over the last 24 hours is a continuation of a move that started on April 14th, after Bitcoin hit an all time high of $64,800. From peak to trough, the market has retraced as far as -26.97% since the April 14th all time high, a common occurrence in a....
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Nearly $1 billion worth of Bitcoin futures contracts have been wiped out once again. Nearly $1 billion worth of Bitcoin (BTC) futures contracts were liquidated on Jan. 13, a day after the big shakeout. The continuous loop of liquidations is causing extreme volatility and large price swings in the cryptocurrency market.Total Bitcoin liquidations. Source: Bybt.comWhat are futures liquidations, and why are so many Bitcoin positions being liquidated?In the Bitcoin futures market, traders borrow additional capital to bet against or for Bitcoin. The technical term for this is leverage, and when....
After a massive cascade of liquidations, Bitcoin price could be heading towards recovery, based on network fundamentals. Over $2.7 billion worth of futures contracts got liquidated in the last 24 hours, based on data from Bybt.com. This caused the price of Bitcoin (BTC) to see a large drop in a short time frame as it plunged from over $41,000 to sub-$32,600.BTC/USDT 4-hour price chart (Binance). Source: TradingView.comWhy would mass liquidations cause Bitcoin to drop?In the futures market, liquidations of positions occur because traders are borrowing additional capital to trade with larger....
More than $1 billion in crypto positions was liquidated last night which has led to a plunge in the market. Bitcoin price currently sits at a little above $32k, losing nine percent of its value. While Ethereum’s price currently sits at 2$k. Losing 10 percent of its value overnight. Twitter user Lex Moskovski tweeted a […]
The crypto bloodbath has left thousands of traders in a bad way. A rapid decrease in price has seen more than 240,000 traders rekt in the span of 24 hours. As the downtrend continues, more investors are added to the long line of losers, most of which have been long traders. As it stands, there are now almost a billion dollars that have been liquidated in the market so far and this number continues to climb with bitcoin declining below $24,000. Over $940 Million In Crypto Liquidated Over the last 24 hours, the liquidations that have rocked the crypto market have been nothing short of....
Around $500 million worth of positions were liquidated within hours as the Tesla news caused Bitcoin to spike over $46,000. Bitcoin (BTC) has extended its rally over $46,000 on Feb. 9, a day after a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing revealed that Tesla bought $1.5 billion worth of BTC. The price of Bitcoin immediately soared from around $39,000 to $45,000 across major exchanges on Feb. 8 after the news began to spread.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingviewMass Bitcoin liquidationAs the Bitcoin price initially rallied to $45,000, it caused $500....