Bitcoin price dip fails to squeeze leverage as $92.5K becomes 'pivotal'

Bitcoin ( BTC ) edged off multiday lows on Nov. 26 after a brutal day liquidated over $500 million of crypto longs.

BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: TradingView

Bitcoin risks new sell-off if $92,500 zone lost

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed $92,600 forming a local BTC price bottom on Bitstamp.

BTC/USD had fallen $5,000 over the course of the Nov. 25 daily candle, and a modest bounce from the lows was not enough to convince market participants that the worst was over.

“Nothing about this chart resembles a validated support test for $BTC,” Keith Alan, co-founder of trading resource Material Indicators, commented in part of an X post about 4-hour timeframes. 

“At least not without landing on anything that looks like s prior consolidation or R/S Flip level. I could be wrong, but this feels like a short term bounce to trap some longs.”

BTC/USD 4-hour chart. Source: Keith Alan/X

Popular trader Skew flagged the area immediately beneath the local lows as essential for bulls to hold.

“To me the $92.5K - $92K area on BTC is very important now,” he told X followers.

“Losing that I think the market as whole would sell off.”

BTC/USDT 4-hour chart. Source: Skew/X

A further post described $92,500 as the “pivotal price between higher a deeper correction.”

“A nice similarity here though is the pullback so far is around the same % as the previous ATH to initial low pullback,” Skew noted, referring to Bitcoin’s first trip to $93,500 earlier in November.

BTC traders retain taste for leverage

Meanwhile, data from monitoring resource CoinGlass put total cross-crypto liquidations over the 24 hours to the time of writing at $525 million.

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“See how nicely the levered longs were swept. Nothing left to liquidate on the long side,” Sina, co-founder of asset management firm 21st Capital, reacted on X. 

“Now imagine what can happen if the price begins rising and takes out that $1.5B short liquidation level at $97K.”

Bitcoin exchange liquidation map (screenshot). Source: CoinGlass

Sina added that Bitcoin had a chance to launch another “assault” on $100,000 if funding rates were to stay at manageable levels.

On a cautionary note, Axel Adler Jr., a contributor to onchain analytics platform CryptoQuant, warned that overall leverage remained elevated despite the liquidation event.

“Despite the recent deleveraging, leverage levels remain high,” he commented alongside CryptoQuant data. 

“Key long positions were built around $93K, giving bears a chance to profit before the price approaches this level.”

Bitcoin adjusted estimated leverage ratio. Source: Axel Adler Jr./X

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