Still waiting for a pullback to get on board—wake up. The little order volume you’re talking about for buying order 1 is nowhere near even a fraction of what you see for selling order 1. What are you sprinkling pepper for? On the contracts side, the active sell orders are pressing down against the buy orders, and the buy-side share can’t even reach half. The price is slowly sinking just below the moving average—downward drift. Even the open interest is still shrinking. This market setup is exactly someone using liquidity to slowly hand over their chips: placing a big sell order there and waiting for a sucker to come in and take it. It’s the same tactic as in a vegetable market—posting an inflated price and “waiting for bargaining.” Don’t fight the order book head-on. Buying long at this spot is basically volunteering to be the counterparty for someone else’s distribution.