Yesterday's PA was pretty aggressive from the sellside
Price falling fast with OI rising and CVD dropping on both futures and spot. Bears were selling/shorting very forcefully, continuing to chase the move down even after price had bottomed
Remember that OI 🔼 + CVD 🔽 = shorts opening (bearish 🔴)
Now we're seeing price drift upwards with OI dropping and CVD mostly neutral
Funding is pretty neutral too, slightly positive but that alone doesn't tell us much
Recall that OI is just the total number of open contracts, and OI 🔽 here just means that money is leaving the market, either from shorts closing or longs taking profit
Would like to see CVD pick up here and get some actual buy pressure, especially from spot. Otherwise it kinda feels like we get a staircase up, elevator down
Remember that:
OI 🔽 + CVD 🔽 = longs closing (bearish 🔴)
OI 🔽 + CVD 🔼 = shorts closing (bullish 🟢)
However here CVD is neither moving up nor down, so it's hard to form a bias from this alone
Also worth noting that we saw a decent amount of sell pressure absorbed at the lows. Recall that downtrend absorption = price higher lows + CVD lower lows, which is exactly what we saw with that rounded bottom structure on $BTC before it rallied / reversed
$HYPE
if you have been waiting for a good entry on Hyperliquid, this is it IMO.
🔸support reclaim of the $20 horizontal level
🔸breakout of downtrend channel
2 step process to buying $HYPE in posts below
$BTC on-chain retail demand is nosediving to historic lows, despite BTC pushing $100k.
This run is being driven by institutions/ETFs/nation states.
For this reason, you can't really compare this cycle to past cycles.
If you've been paying less attention to crypto over the holiday period, you MUST read this thread.
AI agents are exploding, "alt season" indicators are beginning to flash, and the market is waking up.
I compiled the top 10 alpha tweets I read this week, so you don't have to.👇
long hype, short sui Q1 pair trade
$HYPE [$10B circ / $30B FDV]
$SUI [$13B circ / $46B FDV]
sui ~$400M token unlocks every month
hyperliquid ~$1.5M+ a day in daily buy pressure
about equal TVL & dex volumes, hyperliquid perps doing ~$10B daily volume + HyperEVM soon