If you are still trying to outsmart the market with high-leverage counter-trend trades, stop now.

Watching your entire portfolio vanish in a single green candle because you tried to top-tick the market is a pain too many of us know. It is the classic trap of letting ego dictate your risk management instead of actual market structure.

Someone just opened a massive $50.9 million short on $BTC using 40x leverage. This is highly reminiscent of the legendary short squeezes of 2021 when over-leveraged bears got vaporized in minutes, fueling massive rallies for both Bitcoin and majors like $ETH.

Trading with 40x leverage on a position this size means a mere 2.5% move upward sends this whale straight to the liquidation graveyard. While the temptation to short the local top is always high, history shows that market makers love nothing more than using this exact liquidity to push $BTC higher.

Do you think this whale gets wiped out by the weekend, or are we actually due for a sharp correction?

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