{"id":16900,"date":"2024-08-06T23:45:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T23:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bitrabo.com\/discover\/?p=16900"},"modified":"2024-08-06T23:45:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T23:45:08","slug":"bitcoin-experiences-major-long-position-liquidation-due-to-price-plunge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bitrabo.com\/discover\/bitcoin-experiences-major-long-position-liquidation-due-to-price-plunge\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Experiences Major Long Position Liquidation Due to Price Plunge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The recent drop in Bitcoin&#8217;s price has led to a significant long position liquidation, resulting in losses for leveraged traders and highlighting the volatility of the cryptocurrency market.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"2024_Sees_Bitcoins_Largest_Long_Position_Liquidation\"><\/span>2024 Sees Bitcoin&#8217;s Largest Long Position Liquidation<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Recent data shows that Bitcoin&#8217;s price decline caused a substantial liquidation of long positions, resulting in forced liquidations for leveraged traders.<\/p>\n<p>Yonsei Dent, a prominent trader and expert, shared the news on CryptoQuant, stating that this liquidation event is the largest since the beginning of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 5,500 BTC long positions were liquidated within a day, amounting to around $303 million based on hourly closing prices.<\/p>\n<p>The drop was triggered by a -30% decrease in BTC&#8217;s price from its peak and a -16% downswing in 24 hours due to global stock market turmoil initiated by Japan&#8217;s interest rate hike.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin&#8217;s Open Interest also significantly decreased as major exchanges like Binance, Bybit, and OKX witnessed a sharp drop in overall interest.<\/p>\n<p>Yonsei noted that BTC&#8217;s price is currently finding support within a range but falling below key levels may impact Long-Term Holders&#8217; realized price.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the bearish state of BTC, bullish indicators suggest a potential recovery, with a bullish flag pattern being observed on the asset&#8217;s chart.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Bitcoin_Continues_to_Attract_Trader_Focus\"><\/span>Bitcoin Continues to Attract Trader Focus<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Despite recent price fluctuations, Bitcoin remains the primary focus of traders according to data from Santiment, a market intelligence firm.<\/p>\n<p>Santiment advised investors to consider purchasing undervalued speculative coins as they have the potential to yield significant returns during market rebounds.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent drop in Bitcoin&#8217;s price has led to a significant long position liquidation, resulting in losses for leveraged traders and highlighting the volatility of the cryptocurrency market. 2024 Sees Bitcoin&#8217;s Largest Long Position Liquidation Recent data shows that Bitcoin&#8217;s price decline caused a substantial liquidation of long positions, resulting in forced liquidations for leveraged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"slim_seo":{"title":"Bitcoin Experiences Major Long Position Liquidation Due to Price Plunge - Bitrabo","description":"The recent drop in Bitcoin's price has led to a significant long position liquidation, resulting in losses for leveraged traders and highlighting the volatility"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[448,620,6053,1158,6920,2061,1548,550,467,6919,1185],"class_list":["post-16900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crypto-news","tag-bitcoin","tag-largest","tag-liquidation","tag-long","tag-long-position","tag-months","tag-plunge","tag-position","tag-price","tag-price-plunge","tag-triggers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitrabo.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitrabo.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitrabo.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitrabo.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitrabo.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitrabo.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitrabo.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitrabo.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitrabo.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitrabo.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}