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Breaking News: Bitcoin Price Tumbles Toward $98,000: What’s Driving The Drop And What Lies Ahead

Ethereum Market Observes Pileup Of Leverage As ETH Breaks $2k

Keshav Verma
Keshav Verma
Last Updated: August 13, 2022 7:00 pm
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Data shows a large amount of leverage has been piling up in the Ethereum futures market as the price of the crypto breaks above $2k.

Ethereum Open Interest Surges To Highest Value In Last 4 Months

As pointed out by an analyst in a CryptoQuant post, the ETH futures market has seen the leverage sharply going up recently.

The “open interest” is an indicator that measures the total number of Ethereum futures contracts currently open in all derivatives exchanges.

When the value of this metric rises up, it means investors are opening up more positions on the market right now. Since more futures positions imply that leverage is also going up in the market, such a trend can lead to higher volatility in the price of the coin.

On the other hand, lowering values of the indicator suggest holders are closing up their positions at the moment. This kind of trend can result in a less volatile value of ETH.

Related Reading: Bitcoin Bearish Signal: Whales With 1k-10k BTC Depositing To Exchanges

Now, here is a chart that shows the trend in the Ethereum open interest over the course of 2022 so far:

Ethereum Open interest

Looks like the value of the metric has shot up in recent days | Source: CryptoQuant

As you can see in the above graph, the Ethereum open interest has observed some sharp uptrend during the past couple of weeks.

The indicator has now reached a value of 7.4 billion, the highest it has seen during the last four months. However, there is an interesting comparison here.

Related Reading: New Findings Shows Institutional Investors Take More Interest In Ethereum

Around 4 months ago, when such values were previously observed, the price of ETH was about $3.3k. But today the price is just $2k, around $1.3k less than it was back then.

And yet, the open interest is at the same level, meaning the Ethereum market might be having the same degree of leverage this time as well, while the price is much lower.

When especially high leverage accumulates in the futures market, any sharp swing in the price can liquidate a large number of positions at once. These liquidations then further amplify this price move, which liquidates more positions.

In this way, liquidations can cascade together, and the event is called a “liquidation squeeze.” This is the reason behind the volatility of an overleveraged market.

If a long squeeze does end up taking place this time, then the latest rally in the value of ETH may hit the breaks.

ETH Price

At the time of writing, Ethereum’s price floats around $1.9k, up 5% in the past week.

Ethereum Price Chart

The value of ETH seems to have gone up during the last few days | Source: ETHUSD on TradingView
Featured image from Kanchanara on Unsplash.com, charts from TradingView.com, CryptoQuant.com
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Keshav Verma
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Keshav Verma

Keshav is currently a senior writer at NewsBTC and has been attached to the website since June 14, 2021.

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Keshav has been writing for many years, first as a hobbyist and later as a freelancer. He has experience working in a variety of niches, even fiction at one point, but the cryptocurrency industry has been the longest he has been attached to.

In terms of official educational qualifications, Keshav holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics from one of the premier institutes of India, the University of Delhi (DU). He started the degree with an aim of eventually making a career in Physics, but the onset of COVID led to a shift in plans. The virus meant that the college classes had to be delivered in the online-mode and with it came free time for him to explore other passions.

Initially only seeking to make some beer money, Keshav unexpectedly landed clients offering real projects, after which there was no looking back. Writing was something he had always enjoyed and to be able to do it for a living was like a dream come true.

Keshav completed his Physics degree in 2022 and has been focusing on his writing career since, but that doesn’t mean his passion for Physics has ended. He eventually plans to re-enter university to obtain a masters degree in the same field, but perhaps only to satiate his own interest rather than for using it as a means to find employment..

Keshav has found blockchain and its concepts fascinating ever since he started going down the rabbit-hole back in 2020. On-chain analysis in particular has been something he likes to research more about, which is why his NewsBTC pieces tend to involve it in some form.

Being of the science background, Keshav likes if concepts are clear and consistent, so he generally explains the indicators he talks about in a bit of detail so that the readers can perhaps come out having understood and learnt something new.

As for hobbies, Keshav is super into football, anime, and videogames. He enjoys football not only as a watcher, but also as a player. For games, Keshav generally tends towards enjoying singleplayer adventures, with EA FC (formerly FIFA) being the only online game he is active in. Though, perhaps due to being ultra-focused on the game, he is today a semi-pro on the EA FC scene, regularly participating in tournaments and sometimes even taking back prize money.

Because of his enthusiasm for anime and games, he also self-learned Japanese along the way to consume some of the untranslated gems out there. The skill didn’t merely remain as just a hobby, either, as he put it to productive use during his exploration for small-time gigs at the start of COVID, fulfilling a couple of Japanese-to-English translation jobs.

Keshav is also big into fitness, with agility and acceleration-related workouts making a big part of his program due to the relevance they have in football. On top of that, he also has a more traditional strength based program for the gym, which he does to maintain an overall fitness level of his body.

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