The bigger the trader on Binance, the harder the lean toward a rise in $BTC . Weighted by position size, top traders held 2.15 long for every short as of 16:57 UTC on Oct 29. Counted by account, those same top traders read 1.84, and the whole crowd read 1.72.

Other venues tell a similar story. OKX showed 1.69, and 64% of Bybit accounts sat on the buy side. Buyers using market orders took 1,353 more BTC than sellers over 24 hours, and in the latest hour they took 1.08 for every 1 sold.

The most one sided crowd on our 30 coin board was $XRP, with 3.07 Binance accounts long for every one short.