$15 Million Wiped Out on BitMEX as Bitcoin Prints $400 “Darth Maul” Candle
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$15 Million Wiped Out on BitMEX as Bitcoin Prints $400 “Darth Maul” Candle

THELOGICALINDIAN - Bitcoin has apparent absolutely the bender of animation over the accomplished hour or so

After trading at $9,700 for best of Monday, the cryptocurrency aback surged as aerial as $9,900 on the arrival of a affairs volume. But already it hit $9,900 the trend bound reversed, with the asset coast about $400 in 10 minutes.

Analysts liken such a candle to the lightsaber of Darth Maul, the Star Wars villain whose weapon produced lasers from two sides.

Due to the volatility, abounding millions account of leveraged positions were asleep according to abstracts aggregate by the Skew.com crypto derivatives platform.

The aggregation reported that in the accomplished hour alone, added than $13 actor account of continued and abbreviate positions in BitMEX’s Bitcoin bazaar has been liquidated.

For BitMEX’s Ethereum market, the amount of affairs asleep is $400,000. This is rather low because that Ethereum fell 10% from the highs to the lows, but it may accomplish faculty as BitMEX’s ETH bazaar is almost baby compared to its BTC market.

What’s Next for Bitcoin?

Although animation still persists afterwards this moves, Bitcoin is attempting to balance area it started this Darth Maul candle. This may advance that the angle that analysts had above-mentioned to this move is still valid.

A arresting cryptocurrency banker aggregate the blueprint below, acquainted how in ambulatory to $9,900 but declining to breach through, BTC is aptitude bearish.

But as normal, analysts cannot absolutely accede on what comes next. 

A notable cryptocurrency chartist acclaimed how Bitcoin’s contempo amount action, with the Darth Maul candle and the accedence bead aftermost anniversary looks eerily agnate to the 2024 basal in the $3,000s. What followed that bottom, as we now know, was a 300% assemblage to $14,000 in the months that followed.