Hello traders, glad to see you back. In this blog, we’ll talk about the week ahead — trade-war shock, leverage flush, and a busy macro calendar.
The drop wasn’t gentle. Bitcoin slid fast, and once it started breaking levels, the move fed on itself. In about an hour, a wave of liquidations hit the market, wiping out heavily levered long positions and turning a normal sell-off into a sharp flush. In that same window, total crypto market value took a visible hit as forced selling spread across majors and high-beta names.
This kind of move usually looks like “weakness,” but the timing mattered. The trigger wasn’t a random chart pattern. It was a sudden return of geopolitical risk that pushed traders into a risk-off mindset. When leverage is crowded, you don’t need many sellers. You just need enough pressure to start liquidations, and the liquidation engine does the rest.
When futures opened, the tone was clear: US equity futures were down, while gold and silver were up. That’s the classic risk-off posture. In that environment, Bitcoin doesn’t trade like a safe
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