The Bitcoin on-chain data is showing that sentiment is highly bullish in the current market. The Short-term Output Profit Ratio (SOPR) metric, which indicates the behavior of market participants, has just flashed a highly bullish signal. Analysts are comparing the metric’s current level to market conditions from last year that marked the bottom of the

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Popular financial education show InvestAnswers is bullish on $ATOM, the native coin of Cosmos, which is “an ecosystem of networks and tools for creating interoperable blockchains.” In a recent YouTube video, the anonymous host of InvestAnswers told viewers that $ATOM looks “absolutely perfect” to explode in price. The show’s host predicted that the altcoin would […]

1. Market MovementsIn January crypto sold-off alongside other asset classes, with Bitcoin (BTC) down -17% and Ethereum (ETH) down -27% (Table 1). Central...

A quant explains why the current high Bitcoin leverage ratio values may mean that more price drop could be coming soon. Current Bitcoin Leverage Ratio Is At High Values As explained by an analyst in a CryptoQuant post, the current BTC leverage ratio has high values, and if past pattern is anything to go by, a correction may be coming to the price soon. The “estimated leverage ratio” is an indictor that’s defined as the value of the Bitcoin open interest divided by the reserve of all exchanges. In simpler terms, what this metric tells us is the amount of leverage that an average user is making use of at the moment. When the value of this indicator rises, it means investors are taking on more risk as they are increasing the leverage on their positions. During such a trend, the volatility in the price of BTC may also go up. At sufficiently high values of the ratio, the market may be considered overleveraged, and a liquidation squeeze could follow to wipe out the excess leverage. Related Reading | Market Re-Enters Extreme Fear Territory As Bitcoin Declines To $36k In a liquidation squeeze, a big swing in the price causes a cascade of futures liquidations that amplify the price move further. Now, here is a chart that shows the trend in the Bitcoin leverage ratio over the past year: Looks like the value of the indicator has been high recently | Source: CryptoQuant In the above graph, the quant has highlighted the different regions where the Bitcoin leverage ratio sharply dropped. Along with that, the direction of the price following these liquidation squeezes is also marked. Yellow indicates a long squeeze. During such an event, the price of the crypto declines along with the indicator. Similarly, green marks a short squeeze where the price moves oppositely to the ratio. Related Reading | Bitcoin On-Chain Demands Suggests That The Market Has Reached Its Bottom In the period of the chart, most of the liquidation incidents have involved longs. As you can see in the above graph, the ratio has now once again risen to quite high values. The quant thus believes that we may see another similar yellow region soon as the probability of it has been higher during such bearish market conditions as now. However, the pattern of another indicator, the Bitcoin volatility index, rather suggests that a short squeeze may be coming next. In such an outcome, the price of the coin will be bullish. BTC Price At the time of writing, Bitcoin’s price floats around $37.9k, up 4% in the last seven days. The below chart shows the trend in the price of the crypto over the past five days. BTC's price has once again surged to around $38k | Source: BTCUSD on TradingView Featured image from Unsplash.com, charts from TradingView.com, CryptoQuant.com

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The U.S. released its inflation data on Wednesday, January 12, but this doesn’t seem to dampen the sentiment for Bitcoin investors as of now. Bitcoin is trading in the green zone as of press time at price levels above $43,700. Whether Bitcoin remains a buy or a sell at this stage remains a big question

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1. Market MovementsFor 2021 cryptoasset markets massively outperformed other asset classes with Bitcoin (BTC) up a solid 60% and Ethereum (ETH) up a...

ARK Invest has created a whitepaper designed to help investors grasp Bitcoin’s on-chain data. The paper, authored by ARK analyst Yassine Elmandjra and Glassnode researcher David Puell, breaks Bitcoin’s chain into three main categories: Network health, buyer and seller behavior, and asset valuation. As per the paper, the bottom layer assesses things like network security, […]

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