$ASTER This drop accompanied by consecutive declines in open interest—15m OI -0.12%, 1h -0.34%—looks more like longs reducing positions than new shorts entering. Price broke below the lows of the past 20 5m candles, volume rose to more than twice the norm, and the taker volume delta was -8.2%. The anomaly percentile is 89.3%, ranking #11 across the entire pool. This move is deleveraging, not a sell-off.