Bitcoin’s sudden dump yesterday wasn’t random — and traders felt it instantly. Massive sell pressure slammed the market, triggering a wave of long liquidations that wiped out over $200 million in leveraged positions within hours. Panic followed. Charts broke. Stops were hunted.
Behind the move, market watchers point to large-scale BTC sell-offs linked to Binance- and Wintermute-associated flows, which appeared just as open interest was stretched and leverage was overheated. The timing was surgical. Liquidity vanished, longs were forced out, and price cascaded lower.
Then came the twist. As liquidations peaked and retail capitulated, buy pressure quietly re-emerged, with BTC rapidly reclaimed from the lows. The same market that crushed longs suddenly absorbed supply with ease — a classic shakeout pattern seen before major reversals.
Was it coordination or simply ruthless liquidity hunting? That’s the debate. What’s clear is this: leverage was the target, not Bitcoin itself. When markets are overcrowded on one side, price doesn’t need bad news — it needs an excuse.
For experienced traders, this was a reminder of an old rule:
Markets move to hurt the most people possible before choosing direction.
The question now isn’t what just happened — it’s who positioned correctly after the dust settled.
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