Today, I want to point out some ugly and uglier things happening. Bears are in full control going after liquidating bulls. Hint: They are, with great success. Every time I look at https://charts.aggr.trade/crbj (Aggr), I see massive, massive liquidation hunts. I noticed this trend in correlation with the Binance Futures funding rates. TLDR for today is: market go down. Waaaaay down.
What are we seeing that tells us the damages? Well, OI (open interest) isn’t rising with longs, and it is with shorts. That means shorts are fakes, and longs are real.
So, enjoy the ride down to 18k, 16k, whatever hits the definition of uglytown. Because we might be filling that $18k gap this week on the CME chart. We just had futures expire last Friday, and guess what? Down she goes.
This final leg of the downtrend looks like volume is steady but a little decreasing, and yet….that’s only on the daily. Where everything screams maximum bearish.
Oh, and did I mention the weekly chart? Because if you want to see bullishness…you’re probably not going to be liking that too much either.
As if that’s not enough, the news in this cycle is the ugliest I’ve ever seen. Russia is going to pull down the global economy. Guess who’s big on crypto to avoid sanctions? Russia.
Russia’s default for the first time since 1918 is very significant (note the timing), and their people are on strike from being unpaid. This means they’re going to have to sell some crypto to make ends meet, and well…take a guess what that means for the market. Meanwhile, Russia randomly threatens USA, Spain, UK, France, Germans and others. Go home Russian war machine, you’re drunk.
Oh sorry, this isn’t all the happy times news I have for you. I have more. China’s getting ready to get military involved and invade (IE: kill everyone living within who doesn’t comply) Taiwan. First they authorized their military, and then they started raising threats over naval control. As if that’s not enough, the supreme court effectively walked back abortion and allowed for prayer. So, even the US is looking at a possible civil war, all brought on by Russia.
Maybe you do or don’t know, but the article above? That’s from 2015. Yep. This isn’t some new Putin plan, he wants to fund some idiots to attempt to secede which has been something far more vocal lately.
This will be about as fun a read as you imagine it might be.