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500 mln newly opened futures longs in the last day in Binance. This is calling for a new long squeeze. They missed the train last week, so they will try to catch it in motion. Good luck, n00bs! After they are liquidated I expect next week to get to 50K.

Well, this wasn't hard to predict. The usual long squeeze tax n00bs are paying to the ~~casinos~~ exchanges. Nothing to see here, move along!

Have those longs been closed out yet? Regardless I doubt 50k next week, but back into the 40s would be nice.

Liquidated and stop loss closed. Nobody can tell the real number of realised losses in general. There are some indicators like glassnode stats or more basic like https://blockchainwhispers.com/bitmex-position-calculator#. Nobody can count stop losses and margin trades, which in fact determine the price in Binance. I suppose that those 500mil from earlier are liquidated/closed and the new 200 mil knife catching longs are being squeezed on the way. In the last year, the minimal volume of futures longs on Binance typically was around 1.3-1.5 bil. When in a short period like 2 days it jumps to 2 bil it is an indicator that the same is happening with margin trades. Basically this means that 500mil are waiting to cash out on 1-2% price increase. Which can happen only if there is some major buyer. If those traders make an effort to look at the volume, they will understand that there is no way a 500mil sale to allow the price to increase. And when there is no price increase, the sells are starting to tip the balance causing a domino effect of closing high leverage longs. The funny thing is that there were literally 0 volume longs activity before and during the pump last week. So these losers are quite miserable and addicted to making the same mistakes over and over again. For now it seems that most of them are liquidated, so the recovery to 45K shouldn't be a problem. 50K might look too far for now, but definitely doable in 2-3 weeks.

Yeah it amazes me how often this same mistake is made over and over again. I would really love to know who these people are who keep doing this. Average Joes maybe, rich fools who were given their money rather than earning it? it would certainly be an interesting study.

45k is ok by me too, and 3 weeks till 50k, yeah I could handle that.