{"id":64121,"date":"2025-12-18T01:01:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T01:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=64121"},"modified":"2025-12-18T01:01:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T01:01:45","slug":"bitcoin-price-prediction-why-did-btc-trigger-back-to-back-short-and-long-squeezes-in-a-single-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=64121","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Price Prediction: Why Did BTC Trigger Back-to-Back Short and Long Squeezes in a Single Session?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On December 17, Bitcoin saw a sharp and chaotic two-hour stretch that sent prices violently higher and lower within a short window.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The move began with a fast rally, then flipped just as quickly into a steep drop. Both sides of the market took hits. Each leg pushed Bitcoin roughly $3,000 in either direction, highlighting how aggressive trading had become during the session.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bull Theory flagged the initial surge, noting that Bitcoin jumped about $3,300 in just 30 minutes. That spike forced the liquidation of roughly $106M in short positions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/72x72\/1f6a8.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udea8\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\">BREAKING: Bitcoin pumped $3,300 and liquidated $106 million worth of shorts in just 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>But then it dumped $3,400 and liquidated $52 million worth of longs in next 45 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Insane level of manipulation in crypto. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5zrlnsIhgj\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/5zrlnsIhgj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bull Theory (@BullTheoryio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BullTheoryio\/status\/2001324912641032536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">December 17, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the analyst, the speed and scale of the move made it a textbook short squeeze.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the strength did not last. Over the next 45 minutes, Bitcoin gave back nearly all of those gains. Prices dropped around $3,400, triggering about $52M in long liquidations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bull Theory described the reversal as a fast shift into a long squeeze, showing how quickly sentiment flipped.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other market watchers pointed to the same episode from different angles. DEGEN NEWS described Bitcoin as printing \u201ctwo straight volatile hourly candles,\u201d emphasizing how unusual the back-to-back swings were.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ZeroHedge tied the move to its long-running \u201c10 am slam algo\u201d idea, calling it a near $5,000 swing within about an hour at the time of its post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Both ZeroHedge and Bull Theory have pointed to a pattern they say shows up around 10:00 a.m. EST. That timing lines up with the opening of US stock markets. And it\u2019s where some of these sharp Bitcoin moves tend to appear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>DISCOVER:<\/b><a class=\"general-link\" href=\"https:\/\/99bitcoins.com\/cryptocurrency\/high-risk-high-reward-crypto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored\"> <b>9+ Best High-Risk, High-Reward Crypto to Buy in 2025<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>Bitcoin Price Action and Liquidations<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The latest wave of volatility hit traders hard. Over the past 24 hours, more than 120,000 positions were liquidated. Total losses came close to $400M.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most of that damage happened fast. More than $340M in liquidations occurred in the last 12 hours alone. Around $310M of that came within a single four-hour window.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That timing matches the quick pump and dump that several analysts flagged during the session.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Looking only at Bitcoin, liquidations reached about $108M over four hours, based on data from <\/span><a class=\"general-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coinglass.com\/LiquidationData\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CoinGlass<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Roughly $75M of those losses came from short positions. Another $32M came from longs.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_320120\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-320120\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-320120 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/99bitcoins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/507C1658-473E-4E89-A992-CFF732D94433.webp\" alt=\"Bitcoin saw swings as short and long squeezes wiped $400 million, driven by liquidity shocks around US open.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/99bitcoins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/507C1658-473E-4E89-A992-CFF732D94433.webp 1200w, https:\/\/99bitcoins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/507C1658-473E-4E89-A992-CFF732D94433-300x109.webp 300w, https:\/\/99bitcoins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/507C1658-473E-4E89-A992-CFF732D94433-1024x370.webp 1024w, https:\/\/99bitcoins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/507C1658-473E-4E89-A992-CFF732D94433-768x278.webp 768w, https:\/\/99bitcoins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/507C1658-473E-4E89-A992-CFF732D94433-50x18.webp 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-320120\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a class=\"general-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coinglass.com\/LiquidationData\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">(Source: Coinglass)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ethereum saw liquidations on a similar scale during the same period. But the structure was different.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most of the losses in ETH came from long positions, pointing to a clearer long-squeeze in Ethereum markets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>DISCOVER:<\/b><a class=\"general-link\" href=\"https:\/\/99bitcoins.com\/cryptocurrency\/crypto-presales\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored\"> <b>The 12+ Hottest Crypto Presales to Buy Right Now<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/99bitcoins.com\/news\/bitcoin-btc\/bitcoin-price-prediction-why-did-btc-trigger-back-to-back-short-and-long-squeezes-in-a-single-session\/\">Bitcoin Price Prediction: Why Did BTC Trigger Back-to-Back Short and Long Squeezes in a Single Session?<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/99bitcoins.com\/\">99Bitcoins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 17, Bitcoin saw a sharp and chaotic two-hour stretch that sent prices violently higher and lower within a short window. The move began with a fast rally, then flipped just as quickly into a steep drop. Both sides of the market took hits. Each leg pushed Bitcoin roughly $3,000 in either direction, highlighting [&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-64121","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\/64121","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=64121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}