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After you’ve stayed in a cycle long enough, you’ll find that the candlesticks when liquidity ebbs are often more truthful than the fundamentals.

Take a look at the past month’s走势 of $SLX —it’s practically a textbook example of distribution (chip dumping) paired with violent washout. Right now, $SLX ’s market cap is only about $41 million (ranked #464), yet its 24-hour trading volume is an astonishing $45 million. The daily turnover rate is over 100%, together with the incredible 65% drop over the past 7 days, indicates the market is undergoing extremely violent blood-replacement.

At the end of June, $SLX surged on the back of its narrative. When it topped on July 1, it printed a huge volume of $500 million in trades—on-chain cycle history, this is often a clear signal of smart money distributing at the highs. Now the price has returned to around $0.17, nearly a 74% retracement from its ATH, completing almost the “from where it came, back to where it came from” loop. But it’s worth noting: as a token already listed on Binance contracts, its liquidity hasn’t dried up. A drop back to the starting line accompanied by high turnover near the bottom usually means most of the panic selling has been washed out and the market is beginning to reprice.

However, catching falling knives from the left side has never been rational. A single-week drawdown of over 60% means the long-side structure has already been badly damaged. If, in the next few days, trading volume quickly shrinks, or if the price breaks below the key support zone around $0.14 in mid-June, then the so-called “bottom” might only be halfway down the mountain.

The market never rewards people who blindly chase highs, but it often gives opportunities to those who wait for trend confirmation amid the ruins. Do you think $SLX is now washing out and building a base, or continuing to dig a deeper hole?👀