$INIT This 4-hour candle hit a low of 0.14967 and closed at 0.1502; the current price is 0.1505, down 47.72% over 24 hours. In the previous post, 0.188 was treated as the line that would send the whole move lower if broken again. This time, it didn’t just touch that line—it fell 19.9% below it. The close is only 0.4% above this candle’s low, and the price has dropped another 3.46% in the past hour.
But the way things eased on the contracts side was the opposite of what you might expect. In the previous post, spot was still trading at a 19.2% discount to the mark price, and the funding rate was -0.565%. Now the discount is down to just 1.7%, and the rate is -0.074%, almost back to zero. The discount didn’t narrow because contracts rose; spot fell to meet them. That tension from earlier posts—“spot holding up while contracts drift further away”—is how it finally resolved.
Spot has fallen from 0.25972 at the time of the previous post to 0.1505, a drop of 42%. This latest 4-hour candle saw 34.27 million coins traded, 29% less than the previous candle’s 48.35 million. The 24-hour trading volume was 43.55 million USDT, about the same as the 45.07 million in the previous post. This 42% drop didn’t happen on a surge in volume: the price moved lower, but trading volume didn’t expand along with it.
To say the bleeding has stopped here, we’d first need to see the price close above 0.185 and hold there. A break below 0.14967 accompanied by rising volume would mark the next leg down. A 23.6% move could happen again in a single 4-hour candle.
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But the way things eased on the contracts side was the opposite of what you might expect. In the previous post, spot was still trading at a 19.2% discount to the mark price, and the funding rate was -0.565%. Now the discount is down to just 1.7%, and the rate is -0.074%, almost back to zero. The discount didn’t narrow because contracts rose; spot fell to meet them. That tension from earlier posts—“spot holding up while contracts drift further away”—is how it finally resolved.
Spot has fallen from 0.25972 at the time of the previous post to 0.1505, a drop of 42%. This latest 4-hour candle saw 34.27 million coins traded, 29% less than the previous candle’s 48.35 million. The 24-hour trading volume was 43.55 million USDT, about the same as the 45.07 million in the previous post. This 42% drop didn’t happen on a surge in volume: the price moved lower, but trading volume didn’t expand along with it.
To say the bleeding has stopped here, we’d first need to see the price close above 0.185 and hold there. A break below 0.14967 accompanied by rising volume would mark the next leg down. A 23.6% move could happen again in a single 4-hour candle.
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