The Fed Rug-pulls Bears

Dec 14, 2023 • 8 Min Read

OI Rinse to Start the Week

This week the crypto market started off with a bang, marked by a liquidations-driven downturn on Sunday evening. The perpetual futures market witnessed a low liquidity liquidation cascade that wiped out approximately $2.7 billion in open interest across all cryptoassets, according to data from CoinGlass.

At the time, we perceived this event as a normal cleansing of overleveraged weekend positions and viewed any immediate market weakness as a buying opportunity. Following this shake-up, BTC, ETH, and SOL all demonstrated resilience, finding support at the previ...

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