Bitcoin price dips 3% as liquidity hunt follows $4.6B MicroStrategy buy
2024-11-18

Bitcoin BTCUSD gave back early-week gains at the Nov. 18 Wall Street open as a liquidity hunt came for late longs.
BTC price reacts as MicroStrategy announces giant purchase
Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed a 3% BTC price drop, taking BTCUSD below the weekly close.
That weekly close had marked Bitcoin’s highest ever, but news that business intelligence firm MicroStrategy had purchased $4.6 billion of BTC over the past week appeared to sour the mood.
“Usually we get a short term dump on Saylor’s buy announcements as it explains a lot of the buying that was done,” popular trader Daan Crypto Trades responded in a post on X.
BTCUSD hit new all-time highs near $93,500 on Nov. 13 before volatility set in, with intraday lows focusing on the area just below $87,000.
“Nothing changed with $BTC,” popular trader and commentator Josh Rager argued on the day.

Others entertained the idea of a deeper BTC price retracement, with “buy the dip” targets already extending toward $70,000.
“Bitcoin dips are still ready to be bought,” trader, analyst and entrepreneur Michaël van de Poppe told X followers. 

Opportunists suffer in Bitcoin support retest
Bitcoin meanwhile began taking a wall of liquidity with its move below $90,000, with popular trader Skew noting increasing short positioning now entering.
“A lot of shorts just opened here into price & still chasing ~ 2K + BTC in shorts. Some minor long capitulation as well on that move,” he confirmed.
Data from monitoring resource CoinGlass put 24-hour BTC long liquidations at around $35 million at the time of writing.
“Usually these walls get pulled but this time they actually got sold into & mostly got filled,” Skew continued.
Daan Crypto Trades added that Bitcoin had filled its latest “gap” on CME Group's Bitcoin futures market.
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