First and foremost both longs and shorts can be liquidated. We typically refer to a short liquidation as a short squeeze or cover rally but it’s a liquidation.
A liquidation (either way) leaves weak back side structure. There is no support/resistance on the most recent leg because the tape was fully one sided. This renders these moves (at least partially) readily retraced if there aren’t fresh initiative buyers/sellers stepping in to follow the move.
Additionally, a long liquidation can actually strengthen the market as it rinses out weak handed longs who (usually) entered at a poor location, and gives fresh and (hopefully) stronger buyers a chance to enter at better prices/location. Additionally, natural overhead supply from prior buyers is removed if they were already liquidated lower.
A short liquidation weakens the market as it rinses out late shorts who (probably) executed at poor location and gives fresh and (perhaps) stronger sellers a chance to enter at better prices. Additionally it removes demand below price as those prior shorts were already liquidated higher.
We just did both in the same session in a spectacularly violent fashion. This feels like a part 1 that I’ll continue later on
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