Topic: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion - page 24853. (Read 26712305 times)

Around 350 would be right.  But I think, for the chinese it is around less than 300.

No it's just the reserved ones, we technically don't know how much of those are used in positions.

I have another one, with more herded kittens.

I wouldn't be so sure. "Active" to me seems like the counterpart to a swap offer not yet taken.

Thank you sir.

On Bitfinex, you can either shortsell and let the system to automatically take care about choosing the swap offer(s) with the lowest interest rate(s) available at the time (and optionally below a manually set interest rate limit) in the background or you can borrow BTC manually for later use (or return if you change your mind and decide not to sell the borrowed coins), effectively securing certain amount of coins for short selling on demand (you won't unexpectedly run out of coins to sell in the middle of the action).

A huge amount of unspent swap at high interest rate is dubious.
I guess either somebody tries to trick the legit short sellers to close their positions (due to the increased interest rates and the confusion about the overall long/short landscape), effectively causing or supporting a mini-pump, or somebody is getting ready to push the price down and/or mitigate a suspected mini-pump attempt.
Or it's all just piggy-backing. Somebody started to short and everybody followed until it went too far. May be somebody tried to encourage piggy-backing by borrowing but not spending the swap, just to force-close the resulting shorts later (jump back to no.1).

I am not sure but I am starting to get a little uncomfortable about my opened short position. But I am not panicking, yet.

Explanation

They say 'sum of active swaps'. I think this include only swaps actually used in a position, and not the reserved ones.

The swap stats are delayed... they are updated every hour as far as i know. That being said, in the last 4 hours there has not be enough volume to justify this (only ~1400BTC exchanged).

agree
yes, teach them all about bitcoin.

I have been wondering about this as well. I wonder if this only account for shorts OR also includes swaps reserved for shorting. If the latter, they might be accumulating swaps (ammo) to do a big market sell-off in one or a few furious blows.

That's what I wonder. I really don't know. Does anybody else. If I knew I would have entered a position one way or another by now.

One thing is for sure, nobody actually shorted those 3k BTC just now that made the quantity of BTC swaps go from 17k to 20k and then back to 17k.

Same here, market movement is really not looking shortish at all.
Behaving normal.

Triple (chinese) top in the making! Get ready for the dump!   




Next 12h are critical!

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BTC swaps at 20k few minutes ago and now back at 17k even if there's no such volume at bitfinex.

Unless it's just a bitfinex glitch, I guess the "whale playing tricks" might be the correct hypothesis.

Someone really playing game with trader, that is why this kind of trading.

BTC swaps back at 17k?

It is because the books at bitfinex are filled with both bids and asks at margin. So when price moves up, for example, you are going to see active BTC swaps increase.

short squeeze coming, 460 soon