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🚨 Crypto Weekly Recap: What’s Happening with $BTC and $ETH ?

The start of November has been intense in the crypto market. Following a local bullish impulse early in the week—during which BTC pushed toward the $75k–$76k range and ETH broke above $2,400—the market sharply reversed course.

Let’s break down the key metrics and draw some conclusions:

📉 What do the numbers and derivatives data tell us?
➡️ Price Action: Both flagship assets—Bitcoin and Ethereum—formed a classic "bull trap." A rapid ascent was followed by an aggressive, impulsive decline toward the end of the week.
➡️ Long Liquidations: Due to the sudden market reversal, leveraged long positions took the hardest hit. Derivatives exchanges (primarily Binance and OKX) saw a massive cascade of long position liquidations, totaling millions of dollars.
➡️ Open Interest (OI) and Funding Rates: Amid the decline, total Open Interest dropped significantly, while funding rates on some platforms dipped into negative territory. This is a clear signal: speculative appetite has cooled sharply, and there was an attempt to seize the initiative in the short term.
➡️ Trading Volume: The bulk of liquidity remains concentrated on Binance, OKX, and Bybit, where the peak candles recorded the highest trading volumes of the entire week.

📊 Takeaways for Traders and Investors
1. The market is currently in a cooling-off phase. There is currently no significant buying volume to support current levels; sentiment-driven behavior and risk-taking (or risk-reduction) dominate.
2. Exercise caution with leverage. Recent cascades of liquidations have demonstrated that the market penalizes heavy margin trading at local highs.
3. What’s next? The key question now is whether buyers can defend local support zones, or if a deeper correction—and a search for a bottom—lies ahead before any new waves of growth.