MRVL’s bid is more aggressive than anyone else: active buying makes up 68.8%, and the contract open interest added another 10% in a day, yet the price is still being ground down along the MA20—down 1.67% over 24 hours. With bids this strong, it still can’t lift the order book. It’s not that there’s no momentum; it’s that someone is using your buying pressure to unload inventory.

The order book says it plainly: in the 20 levels, sell volume is 462 versus buy volume of 247— the sell wall is nearly twice the buy wall. The moment the actively bought money enters, it gets snatched up by sell orders resting overhead. The spot depth is filled with sell orders pressing down; you can’t even bounce the price. It’s not that there aren’t buyers— it’s that the sellers always have one more bite than you do.

The derivatives side can’t hold, either. Of the eight funding-rate windows, five are positive, and the longs are still paying rent to grind it out. Over four hours it’s four red and two green, with price trapped below the moving average and grinding right against the MA50. The harder open interest rises, the less the price goes up—this new position looks more like the shorts are adding to their bets, not fuel for a rally.

Short. First, place short orders in the 207–208 range. The first target is the 24-hour low at 200.9. If that breaks, look to 196. Set the stop loss above 212.5. The whale position “draining” 26.6% over seven hours is the footnote to the same story—big money is withdrawing while retail is still charging.

Reversal conditions: if price breaks out on volume and holds above 210.6, then breaks through 212.5, and simultaneously whale positioning shifts from withdrawing to topping up, then this move is genuine buildup—shorts exit and flip long.

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