FTX Short Squeeze? FTX & Binance. CZ & SBF

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3 min readNov 7, 2022

CZ, the CEO of Binance, says Binance is selling FTT holdings in the wake of the Coindesk scoop of Alameda's unhealthy balance sheet problem.

As of June 30, Alameda’s assets amounted to $14.6 billion. Its single biggest asset: $3.66 billion of “unlocked FTT.” The third-largest entry on the assets side of the accounting ledger? A $2.16 billion pile of “FTT collateral.”

FUD of FTT is running in the market. Candlestick data reveals facts to you.

Rumor 1 — Large amount of FTT is transferred to Binance?

Fact — Yes. +1539%

Starting on Nov 5, the FTT amount on Binance increased sharply by 1539%.

From 1.5million amount of FTT on Nov 4, increased to 24.47million on 5th, then dropped a bit to 24.4m on Nov 6th.

FTT — CEX Balance

While The FTT Amount On FTX Drops

Rumor 2 — The large CEX deposit caused the price FUD?

Fact — Yes.

FTT — Net CEX Outflow

A deep Net CEX Outflow (CEX withdraw — CEX deposit) appears on Nov 5 at 15 pm UTC0.

  • A total CEX deposit of $582million $FTT in the hour.
  • The price saw an 11.45% drop from $25.51 to $22.19
FTT — Net Buy Value

FTT FUD on DEX happened at 21 pm UTC on Nov 6th. 6 hours after the deep Net CEX Outflow was detected.

Turnover Rate reached the highest.

FTT — Turnover Rate

That’s why we have been strongly “alphaing” you to monitor CEX flow as an early sell signal! The deep Net CEX Outflow happened before the price slump.

You Deserve To Exit At A Higher Price

Rumor 3 — Whales are clearing their FTT assets?

Fact — 3 of them have done that

FTT — Top Holders

Among the Top 15 FTT Holders, 3 of the “Millionaire” addresses have cleared all their FTT token holdings.

Swift to ” Smart” mode, Alameda Research holds $ 6 million value of FTT.

FTT — Token Balance Distribution

The FTT Token Balance Distribution table reveals that,

On Nov 5, the Top 10 FTT Holders’ Balance dropped from 94.97% to 94.42%

Indicates those $FTT whales largely transferred FTT out from wallets. Either sold, transferred to CEX(high potential to sell as well), OR to other places.

FTT Top Holders

Rumor 4 — is FUD spreading to FTX exchange?

Fact — Yes. $350M total worth of stablecoins was withdrawn

BUSD — Top Exchanges
USDT — Top Exchanges
USDC — Top Exchanges

Only $55.6M left. Meanwhile, $200M entered Binance.

Stablecoin Balances on Exchanges

Rumor 5 — FTX banned withdrawals?

Fact — No. They didn’t

USDC — CEX Flow

FTX didn’t ban withdrawal. It is still allowed and proceeding according to our crypto CEX Flow tracker.

Why CEX Flow Matters?

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