CRCL surged to 94.9, staying just under two ticks below the 24h high of 96.26. In the last four hours it printed five bullish candles and one bearish, with both moving averages flatly beneath its feet. But the contract market is behaving most strangely: over the past 7 hours, open interest actually shrank by 1.6% instead of growing, and the fee rate is hanging at 0%—with the price moving this aggressively, nobody dares to enter with leverage.

People who are afraid of highs are withdrawing—so who is taking the orders? A whale account added 8.2% over 7 hours; the long-side ratio is 71% and still getting stacked higher. The active buy volume is 57.7%—buying 2187 lots to absorb selling of only 1603 lots. This move isn’t a retail-chasing-highs momentum; it’s the big money using real orders to lift the price.

A fee rate of 0 is actually the most comfortable signal: the long positions aren’t expensive, they haven’t been “carried” higher at a premium. Chasing longs costs nearly nothing, and the fuel is still plenty. Price is hugging the highs, direction is upward, and the main force is adding—this is where you go long.

Set the stop-loss at 93.9 (the most recent pullback low). If price breaks below it and the 4-hour chart turns green, or if the whale’s long ratio flips direction, that indicates the big players are offloading—then this trade is invalid.

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