Quote from: Jos-T on June 12, 2016, 03:17:29 AM

Quote from: MinermanNC on June 12, 2016, 03:14:42 AM

Quote from: Jos-T on June 12, 2016, 03:07:40 AM

Quote from: DaRude on June 12, 2016, 01:58:38 AM

$4.8MM in new longs on finex over last 24hrs Cry

that's the only thing that can stop us $35MM long squeeze

Down to under $32MM again though, even though I can't imagine traders have ditched $3MM again in that short time with that volume.
These strange spikes seem to happen more often. Any idea what might be causing them?

Alts, lol... Possible some are ditching their altcoins to reinvest in btc in anticipation of the halving, (not wanting to risk missing out should btc soar) and most of us hope and believe btc will rise as we get closer to July... I mean, for example, why sit on a ton of Eth, when you feel btc will rise significantly... Grin

(Eth always drops as btc goes up...) so it seems.

I mean the spikes in longs (USD denominated) only on Bitfinex...
Often millions of dollars in longs get opened, without the volume in BTC/USD markets to support it. The only way I can see this happening is if the numbers point for all borrowed USD's across all markets.

Could that be the case?

I see, that's a good point... it has been strange the last few weeks, but for the good!