Bitcoin price dips below crucial $33K support as Bitfinex shorts jump by over...
Short selling pressure returns to the market with a trader eyeing a retest of $31,000 as a result of support weakness. Bitcoin (BTC) fell below $33,000 support on July 8 as a trusted trading range risked getting invalidated.BTC/USD 1-minute candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewTrader: $31,000 retest next for BTCData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD dipping into the $32,000 range during trading on Thursday.The move followed an overnight retracement from around $35,000, with Bitcoin failing to crack crucial resistance.With that, Bitcoin risks invalidating....
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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....
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....
Bitcoin short positions at Bitfinex soared as BTC price dropped below $40,000, so why did the majority of them close before the largest part of the correction? Bitcoin price is still in a rut, trading near $33,000 and trapped in a downtrend that just seems to get worse with the passing of each day. As the price slumps, analysts have consulted with several technical and on-chain metrics to explain the price collapse, but none of these have picked up on the exact reason. One area of interest has been the sharp rise in short positions at Bitfinex in the past week. Traders are placing....
$726 million in Bitfinex shorts were quickly closed after Bitcoin price bounced at $30,500, leading traders to speculate whether bears have given up. On June 25, the amount of Bitcoin (BTC) margin shorts at Bitfinex increased by 22,000, equivalent to $726 million. At the time, Cointelegraph reported that there was a significant increase in Bitfinex's spot volume market share starting at 9 am UTC, matching the demand in the short margin.Data confirms that one (or more) whales actively shorted the market, betting on a price decrease. The average price of the trade was around $33,000, so....
It may even be boring for traders right now, but Bitcoin is preparing a rare event which will shake up price action definitively, argues trader John Wick. Bitcoin (BTC) fell back below $33,000 support on July 12 as a familiar cocktail of low volumes and mounting shorts pressured price action. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewShorters fail to spark a Bitcoin routData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView tracked BTC/USD as it hit local lows of $32,880 on Bitstamp. Just like last week, a build-up of short positions on major exchange Bitfinex cost Bitcoin....