Data shows a large amount of liquidations have piled up on cryptocurrency exchanges during the past day as Bitcoin and the altcoins have crashed. Bitcoin & Other Assets Have Witnessed Bearish Action In Last 24 Hours The past day has been a volatile time for the cryptocurrency sector as the US Federal Reserve has revealed […]
Data shows the cryptocurrency derivatives market has suffered a lot of liquidations as Bitcoin has gone through volatility in the past day. Bitcoin Has Gone Through A Bit Of A Rollercoaster Over The Last 24 Hours Bitcoin has seen some wild price action over the past day in which it has not only set a […]
About $180 million in short positions have been wiped as Bitcoin hit another new all-time high of $81,358.
Data shows the cryptocurrency derivatives market has suffered a large amount of liquidations following Bitcoin’s rally to its new all-time high (ATH). Bitcoin Has Set A New Record Above $75,000 Today The moment Bitcoin investors have been waiting for these past few months has finally happened, as the number one cryptocurrency has set a brand […]
Bitcoin (BTC) has had a volatile 24 hours, hitting as low as $68,830 on the Binance crypto exchange before recovering some losses. Liquidation Data At A Glance Although BTC is trading close to its all-time high (ATH) value of $73,737, yesterday’s quick drop in price cast doubts on whether the top digital asset will be able to record a new ATH. Related Reading: Bitcoin Makes ATH Against Euro Due To Change In Dollar Strength, Details Inside According to CoinGlass data from the crypto liquidations tracker, more than $296 million of active positions were liquidated in the last 24 hours. Nearly 77% were long positions, indicating that traders were largely betting on BTC’s continued upward momentum. Binance saw the most liquidations at $124 million, followed by OKX with $74 million and Bybit with $65 million. In digital assets, Bitcoin led with over $97 million worth of positions liquidated, followed by Ethereum (ETH) at $47 million, and Solana at nearly $17 million. With yesterday’s slump, the total crypto market cap has shrunk by about 3.5%, currently valued at $2.48 trillion. It is worth noting that although BTC is close to its ATH, the total crypto market cap is still considerably far from its ATH of $2.98 trillion recorded in November 2021. The gap between BTC’s performance and the overall market cap suggests that altcoins have not kept pace with BTC’s recent gains, contributing to the disparity. This could also indicate a cautious investor sentiment, favoring BTC over altcoins during uncertain periods. At the same time, it suggests that there is still a lot of room for altcoins to grow, which could tempt some more risk-seeking investors to accumulate altcoins in hopes of extraordinary gains relative to BTC. That said, Bitcoin dominance – a metric that gauges the proportion of the overall crypto market cap commanded by BTC – is steadily climbing toward 60%. A higher BTC dominance could spell disaster for altcoins already trailing BTC in price action. Can Bitcoin Still Hit ATH? The question on the minds of crypto enthusiasts is whether BTC will achieve a new ATH during this rally. The answer is not straightforward. Related Reading: Bitcoin’s Active Addresses Signals Golden Cross—What Next For BTC? Factors supporting a potential new ATH include the increased likelihood of pro-crypto US presidential candidate Donald Trump winning the election, the effects of BTC halving, increased inflows to BTC exchange-traded funds (ETF), and a low interest rate environment. On the contrary, sentiment indicators like the Fear and Greed Index suggest the market is still in a ‘greed’ phase, hinting that there could be more pain for the market before the next leg up. Regardless of the outcome, the crypto market will likely remain volatile in the coming days. However, long-term BTC holders do not appear fazed by this prospect, as profit-taking remained relatively muted when the digital asset crossed $71,000. At press time, BTC trades at $71,524, up a modest 0.6% in the past 24 hours, with a reported market cap of $1.41 trillion. Featured image from Unsplash, Charts from CoinGecko, CoinGlass, and Tradingview.com
Data shows the cryptocurrency derivatives market has suffered a high amount of liquidations as the Bitcoin price has breached $71,000. Crypto Derivatives Has Seen $223 Million In Liquidations During Last 24 Hours According to data from CoinGlass, liquidations have piled up on the cryptocurrency derivatives market over the past day. “Liquidation” here refers to the […]
Data shows the crypto derivatives market has suffered a lot of liquidations in the past day as Bitcoin and others have plummeted. Bitcoin Has Declined More Than 3% In The Last 24 Hours Bitcoin has continued its recent bearish momentum in the past day as its price has observed a further plunge, coming down to the $56,600 level. The chart below shows what the asset’s latest performance has looked like. During this plunge, Bitcoin briefly went down to the $55,600 level for the first time since the first-third of August. Despite the coin’s rebound, its price has been down more than 3% over the last 24 hours. Related Reading: Bitcoin Investors Beware: MVRV Has Given Bear Market Signal The rest of the crypto market has also not been spared, with the altcoins seeing similar or worse returns than the original digital asset. Given this latest market volatility, it would be expected that the derivatives side would have seen a shakeup. Crypto Derivatives Market Has Just Witnessed High Liquidations According to data from CoinGlass, the crypto derivatives market has registered a high amount of liquidations in the last 24 hours. A contract is said to be “liquidated” when its exchange has to forcibly shut it down due to it amassing losses of a certain degree (the exact percentage of which may differ between platforms). Below is a table that breaks down the latest liquidation data for the sector. As is visible, the crypto derivatives market has seen $200 million in liquidations during the past day. Almost $170 million of the flush involved the long side, representing 85% of the total. The liquidations being so lopsided towards these investors betting on a bullish outcome is naturally because the sector as a whole has plunged in this window. Bitcoin has topped the charts regarding the individual share of the liquidations, with $55 million in contracts related to the coin taking a beating. Ethereum (ETH), the second largest crypto by market cap, hasn’t been far, though, as it has seen over $50 million in liquidations. Solana (SOL) has seen the most liquidations at under $13 million. Related Reading: Bitcoin Could Drop To $40,600 If This Happens, Crypto Analyst Says The Bitcoin Open Interest, a measure of the number of positions related to the currently open asset, has seen a cooldown alongside this mass liquidation event, suggesting new speculators haven’t jumped in just yet. This trend could suggest that the market may have seen a healthy reset, leading to more stability for the asset’s price. Featured image from Dall-E, CoinGlass.com, chart from TradingView.com
Data shows the cryptocurrency derivatives market has suffered liquidations of more than $1 billion in the past day as Bitcoin has crashed to $52,000. Bitcoin Has Plunged By More Than 15% During The Last 24 Hours Bitcoin investors have been dealt a shock to open Monday, with the cryptocurrency having crashed by more than 15%, which has taken its price to the $51,500 mark. Related Reading: Dogecoin Price (DOGE) Slips Alongside Bitcoin and Ethereum: Market Analysis The below chart shows how the recent trajectory has looked like for the asset: From the graph, it’s visible that the latest sharp plunge in the BTC price is just an acceleration of the trend that the asset had already been witnessing since the last couple of days of July. On the 29th, the cryptocurrency was floating around the $70,000 mark, meaning that it had come down by more than 26% in only a week. Following this drawdown, Bitcoin is now back to the same level as that just before the late February rally, which went on to culminate in a new price all-time high (ATH). While BTC has had it bad during the past day, altcoins have in general had it even worse. Ethereum (ETH), BNB (BNB), and Solana (SOL), the three largest coins next to the original (excluding the stablecoin Tether), have all seen higher losses of 23%, 19%, and 21%, respectively. With prices across the sector crashing down, it’s not surprising to see that long investors have taken a heavy blow over on the derivatives side of the market. Crypto Liquidations Have Crossed $1 Billion, Majority Are Long Contracts The latest volatility in the various assets has meant the derivatives market has gone through chaos over the past 24 hours, as the data from CoinGlass below shows. As is visible in the table, a whopping $1.1 billion in cryptocurrency derivatives contracts have found liquidation in this period. “Liquidation” here naturally refers to the process any contract undergoes after amassing losses of a certain degree, where its platform forcibly closes it up. An extreme majority of these liquidations, around 85% to be more precise, involved the long holders. This is a natural consequence of the market as a whole going through a crash. Interestingly, though, despite the sharp plummet, $173 million in shorts still managed to get liquidated, which isn’t really a small amount. Thus, it would appear that a large amount of investors only put their bearish bets in when the crash was already finished. Related Reading: Bitcoin Price Plunge Deepens: What Could Prevent a Recovery? In terms of the individual symbols, Bitcoin and Ethereum have contributed to the mass liquidation event by nearly the same degrees, witnessing liquidations of $367 million and $350 million, respectively. Clearly, BTC is still ahead, but by only a small amount, which is not usually the case. The reason behind ETH’s high liquidations may be the fact that the recent launch of the spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) had put more attention on the second largest coin by market cap. Featured image from Dall-E, CoinGlass.com, chart from TradingView.com
Over the past few days, Bitcoin has seen quite a notable rebound in its price, rising from as low as the $53,000 level last week to trading as high as above $66,000 in the early hours of Wednesday before now retracing to a current trading price of $64,433. This bullish price performance has been the downfall of approximately 50,436 traders in the crypto market today. Particularly, according to data from Coinglass, this number of traders has seen massive liquidations, bringing the current total liquidations to $145.58 million. Bitcoin traders felt the brunt of this total liquidation, seeing roughly $46.22 million shared evenly between short and long positions, indicating the asset’s mixed trajectory in the past day alone. Related Reading: Bitcoin Dominates as Crypto Funds Attract $1.44 Billion in Fresh Capital, Rally To Begin? Bitcoin: Bigger Liquidations Incoming While recent trading activities have triggered millions of dollars in liquidations, further data shows that this scenario could escalate dramatically, turning into billions if Bitcoin continues its ascent towards record highs, breaching a notable mark. Particularly, as reported by MartyParty, a prominent crypto enthusiast in the community, should Bitcoin’s price hit $72,400, the market would feel the impact, with nearly $19 billion in Bitcoin short positions poised for liquidation at this price point. Marty Party reported this on Elon Musk’s social media platform X, citing data from Coinglass. Concluding this disclosure, the crypto enthusiast noted: “Never bet against technology.” How Long For This Liquidation To Occur? While the $72,400 price mark might seem like a long stretch from the current market price, BTC might not take that long to get to this mark, given the current fundamentals. For instance, the market might be drawn quicker to this mark as this is where the liquidity lies to fuel its current trend. Aside from that, no bears are in sight to slow the asset’s rally from getting there in the short term. First of all, the German government has sold off all of its BTC holdings of roughly 49,858 BTC with a current balance below $500, according to data from Arkham Intelligence. Notably, the current balance of approximately $427 worth of BTC is the cumulative sats (small units of BTC) donated from different wallet addresses. Furthermore, according to recent data from CryptoQuant, 36% of Mt. Gox BTC has been distributed to creditors. However, despite this distribution, BTC’s price is yet to see any notable correction, which suggests two things: that the creditors are not selling, and even if they are, the Bitcoin market is absorbing it real quickly as evident in the slight stabilization of BTC’s price. Related Reading: Bitcoin Price On The Rise: Is The $70K Mark Within Reach? These major sell-offs by the German government and Mt. Gox, once considered major threats to the crypto market, now seem to have minimal impact, indicating that no significant bearish obstacles prevent Bitcoin from surging to the $72,400 mark, creating a short squeeze. Featured image created with DALL-E, Chart from TradingView
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