Bitcoin’s Famous CME Gap Playbook May Be Nearing Its End

More than 172,000 traders were liquidated in a single day as Bitcoin’s losses piled up, pushing the cryptocurrency out of the world’s top 10 largest assets by market cap. Bitcoin now sits at 13th place, trailing gold, NVIDIA, Apple, Microsoft, and silver, among others. Related Reading: Unknown Wallet Destroys $8.5 Million In Bitcoin In Shocking Burn Longs Take The Brunt Total crypto liquidations reached $921 million within 24 hours, with Bitcoin alone accounting for $352 million. Ethereum followed at $241 million, while XRP, ZEC, HYPE, SUI, DOGE, and NEAR recorded the remaining losses. Long positions made up more than 90% of all liquidations, a sign that traders had bet on a price recovery that never came — resulting in forced selling rather than new bearish bets. Four-hour liquidations hit $95 million, with longs at $55 million and shorts at $39 million. Across exchanges, Hyperliquid and Bybit saw heavy long liquidations, OKX leaned toward short liquidations, and Binance recorded equa

CME Group announced it has expanded its crypto derivatives offering to around-the-clock trading, allowing traders to access Bitcoin and Ethereum futures and options whenever they choose.

Bitcoin (BTC) regained the $73,000 level on Friday after earlier dipping to $72,500 earlier in the day for the first time since April. While the rebound may look like a quick recovery on the chart, market analyst J.A. Maartun said the bigger story is what the data shows about selling pressure underneath the surface.  In […]

Over $500 million in Bitcoin bids now sit near $70,000, while options traders and futures positions converge around the same level.

Strategy can cover its debt and preferred dividends even if Bitcoin drops to $8,000 — down from current levels around $73,000 — a claim the company makes as gold advocate Peter Schiff steps up his warnings about its business model. Related Reading: Crypto Card Payments Explode As Transaction Volume Nears $8 Billion A Model Built […]

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Crypto ETF flows remained under pressure on Thursday, May 28, as bitcoin funds posted a ninth straight day of withdrawals and ether products stretched their outflow streak to 13 sessions. Smaller altcoin vehicles, including XRP, HYPE, and Solana ETFs, drew modest inflows, but not enough to shift the market’s defensive tone. Bitcoin ETFs Fall Below […]

Bitcoin (BTC) has survived multiple bull and bear market cycles since it began trading, and each time the market collapsed, a new rally eventually followed. That recurring four-year cyclical pattern has given many investors deep confidence that history will repeat itself. However, after studying the same past cycle patterns, market expert CryptoCon has reached a different conclusion. He has highlighted two possibilities, suggesting that the four-year cycle theory may either be playing out behind the scenes or that this market could be a failed cycle.  How This Bitcoin Bear Market Compares To Past Ones In a recent X post, CryptoCon has drawn parallels between the current Bitcoin cycle and past ones, in which prices explode to new all-time highs and then enter a prolonged bear trend that shakes out investors and triggers fear and panic selling. The analyst noted that, when comparing the current bear market by size to previous ones, he believes the market is nowhere near the level of desp