{"id":36687,"date":"2025-07-14T06:31:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T06:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=36687"},"modified":"2025-07-14T06:31:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T06:31:51","slug":"bearish-bitcoin-trader-loses-92m-as-surge-wipes-out-426m-in-short-liquidations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=36687","title":{"rendered":"Bearish Bitcoin Trader Loses $92M as Surge Wipes Out $426M in Short Liquidations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>More than $680 million in crypto positions were liquidated over the past 24 hours with short traders taking the bulk of the pain as a bitcoin (BTC) breakout above $121,000 triggered a chain reaction across derivatives markets.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly $426 million of the total liquidations came from bearish bets, according to Coinglass data, making it one of the largest weekend liquidation events in recent months. The largest single order, a $92.5 million BTC short, was flushed on HTX.<\/p>\n<p>BTC alone saw $291 million in forced closures, with futures tracking ether (ETH) and XRP (XRP) following at $68 million and $17 million, respectively. XLM (XLM) and pepecoin (PEPE) also posted elevated activity, signaling that the squeeze extended deep beyond major tokens.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.sanity.io\/images\/s3y3vcno\/production\/d7d142a50818ef19fd6786e5ef3d57edee07a96c-1705x457.png?auto=format\" alt=\"(Coinglass)\" title=\"(Coinglass)\"><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, dogecoin (DOGE), Solana&#8217;s SOL (SOL), and SUI (SUI) saw rising open interest, though with relatively smaller drawdowns, indicative of higher spot-based demand.<\/p>\n<p>Liquidations occur when traders using leverage are forced to close their positions due to margin calls. While they often signal excessive positioning, they also serve as a reset mechanism for markets, flushing weak hands and clearing the way for new directional flow.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin\u2019s rally in the past week has sparked a broader breakout across major crypto assets. Traders say that market structure is evolving under the weight of institutional influence \u2014 with eyes on the $130,000 mark in the short term.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read more:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/07\/14\/bitcoin-ether-traders-bet-big-with-tuesday-s-u-s-inflation-data-seen-as-non-event\"> Bitcoin, Ether Traders Bet Big With Tuesday&#8217;s U.S. Inflation Data Seen as Non-Event<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than $680 million in crypto positions were liquidated over the past 24 hours with short traders taking the bulk of the pain as a bitcoin (BTC) breakout above $121,000 triggered a chain reaction across derivatives markets. Roughly $426 million of the total liquidations came from bearish bets, according to Coinglass data, making it one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-36687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}