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$500 million in longs liquidated yesterday as Bitcoin fell $4,000 $500 million in longs liquidated yesterday as Bitcoin fell $4,000
The crypto market plunged on the back of massive funding rates and Evergrandeâs bond default.
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Updated: November 11, 2021 at 8:13 am
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Bitcoin fell nearly $4,000 in a steep plunge this morning, taking with it the broader crypto market and causing over $500 million in âlongâ liquidations.
Funding rates were high across the board on Tuesday, leading to some traders commenting on an impending market drop. âOpen interest reached an ATH. Let’s do a little bullish shakeout before we go higher,â tweeted Lex Moskovski, CIO of Moskovski Capital.
Open interest reached an ATH.
Let's do a little bullish shakeout before we go higher. pic.twitter.com/RGgQieEihE
— Lex Moskovski đ (@mskvsk) November 9, 2021
âLiquidations,â for the uninitiated, occur when leveraged positions are automatically closed out by exchanges/brokerages as a âsafety mechanism.â Futures and margin tradersâwho borrow capital from exchanges (usually in multiples) to place bigger betsâput up a small collateral amount before placing a trade.
Funding rates, on the other hand, are periodic payments to long or short traders based on the difference between the perpetual contract market and the spot price. Funding rates make the perpetual futures contract price close to the index price.
Higher funding rates usually mean a move in the opposite direction, causing a cascade of liquidations on futures products.
The market was subject to such behavior this morning. As data from Coinfloor shows, nearly $500 million in âlongsââor traders betting on higher pricesâsaw liquidations. $235 million worth of these occurred on Binance, while $196 million occurred on OKEx.
Bitcoin alone accounted for $200 million in liquidations, with Ethereum ($96 million), Polkadot ($37 million), and XRP ($27 million) following behind.
172,378 traders were liquidated overall, with the single largest liquidation order happening on Bitmexâan XBTUSD valued $10 million.
