Is Bitcoin [BTC] Price Being Pushed by a ‘Short Squeeze’ Controlled by Whales?

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The market indicators and targets called by traders suggest that the buyers might be exhausted at this level in Bitcoin [BTC]. However, Bitcoin continues to rise past key resistance levels like a cake walk. While the fundaments have been quite the same during the week, the rise unprecedented.

B.Biddles, a Bitcoin Bull summarized the market sentiments in his tweet,

$BTC Took a good chunk of profit in the upper-mid 6.3s. My spidey sense has been tingling since last night. I’ve learned to follow it. Even if we keep bullishly continuing, I don’t regret listening to my gut. Waiting for a good re-entry

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Short Squeeze Driving the Price Up?

One possible explanation of the rise ‘short squeeze.’ Due to the impending fears of the revival of the bear market and adverse piece of news in Bitfinex-Tether issue and Binance hacks, markets were probably expecting a correction.

Nevertheless, the positive developments like Fidelity cryptocurrency market in the market were much better received as the price broke above $6000 levels. This might have set off the struggle of the short-orders with the bears.

A ‘short squeeze’ is a risk associated with short orders. In a market that is heavily shorted a big positive move can further develop upward pressure as the short requests are made to buy at the current price of close their orders. Moreover, Bitcoin [BTC] short orders on Bitfinex suggest that liquidation is occurring as the bears have started to close their short positions.

BTC/USD Short Orders On Bitfinex (TradingView)

Willy Woo, trade and chart analyst noted in a tweet that the rise has had no significant effect on the on-chain volume. This suggests that fresh adoption and on-chain activity is still unaffected. Hence, the market could be driven by Exchanges alone. The short squeeze creates a lucrative profit-making opportunity for high-volume traders or ‘whales’. He tweeted:

All this happens without any on-chain activity. As it’s an exchange driven game, no real investors are buying into the rally.

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