Bitcoin’s price dipped below $58K as the total liquidations reached $260M.
Bitcoin’s price tumbled below $60K today, rendering the entire move up toward $63K from earlier – a bull trap.
At the time of this writing, BTC trades at around $58.8K but it reached a low of about $57,800 earlier.
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Source: TradingView
This puts Bitcoin on a decline of 3.7% for the past 24 hours and 3.6% for the past week. Most of the altcoins are also deep in red.
Ethereum lost 4.4%, Solana – 9.3%, BNB – 5.4% – all in the last day.
This is the reason the total liquidations are also ramping up. At the time of this writing, data from Coinglass reveals that there were $262M, $233M of which are long positions.