Shorts just got run over. In a single hour, $82.6M in short positions got liquidated against just $3.1M in longs across BTC, ETH, and XRP — a 2,633% imbalance (via CoinGlass data). Over 24 hours, $259M in leveraged positions were wiped out total.
The mechanism: core PCE inflation printed sticky, but the market still read it as room for a Fed cut, and that was enough to spark a squeeze. Traders who'd piled into shorts ahead of the print got forced to buy back into the rally, which pushed price higher and triggered the next leg of liquidations — a classic feedback loop where the crowded side pays for being crowded.
Worth asking: are you still running flat position sizing into macro print days, or do you widen stops and trim size ahead of PCE/CPI now that this keeps happening?
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The mechanism: core PCE inflation printed sticky, but the market still read it as room for a Fed cut, and that was enough to spark a squeeze. Traders who'd piled into shorts ahead of the print got forced to buy back into the rally, which pushed price higher and triggered the next leg of liquidations — a classic feedback loop where the crowded side pays for being crowded.
Worth asking: are you still running flat position sizing into macro print days, or do you widen stops and trim size ahead of PCE/CPI now that this keeps happening?
$BTC $ETH $TBOT #TokenBot #Bitcoin #Crypto #TradingSignals
