Shorts accounted for 90%, showing that liquidations in U.S. stocks were almost entirely one-sided this hour, though the amount hasn’t reached an out-of-control level yet.
Over the past hour, $4.134 million in TradFi contracts was liquidated, including $3.721 million in shorts, or 90.0%; longs accounted for just $413,000. Of the 766 liquidations, stocks contributed $3.098 million and commodities $886,000, making stocks the main source of the impact.
This setup differs from the 24-hour period, when “longs were liquidated en masse.” In the short term, it looks more like a squeeze on short positions during an upward move. Don’t focus only on the total amount; first watch whether short liquidations continue to grow. If shorts remain in the lead over the next hour, chasing the move with new shorts will become increasingly unattractive.
Do you think this move is a short squeeze, or is the leveraged positioning in U.S. stocks shifting?
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