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📉 Weekend LAB: Whales Relaxing, Retail Investors Celebrating? Liquidation Data Is Quite Interesting
Hello everyone, the on-chain activity this weekend is truly quiet—whales are collectively "lying flat," and market volatility depends entirely on contract traders pushing themselves.
Let's look at a set of freshly released LAB liquidation data (as of 24 hours):
· 1-hour liquidation: $3.61M
Longs $2.14M | Shorts $1.47M
· 4-hour liquidation: $8.9M
Longs $4.2M | Shorts $4.69M
· 12-hour liquidation: $16.31M
Longs $6.1M | Shorts $10.21M
· 24-hour liquidation: $24.62M
Longs $8.45M | Shorts $16.17M
📌 Shorts are clearly hurting more—24h short liquidations are nearly twice as much as longs. But don’t rush to call it a one-sided market; look at the second chart: the long-short ratio across multiple exchanges for LAB is oscillating mainly between 49% and 51.5%, almost a 50/50 split.
🧐 What does this mean?
Neither side is dominating; liquidations seem more like short-term, small-scale stop-loss triggers rather than trend-based slaughter. Plus, with whales on-chain doing nothing over the weekend, liquidity is thin, and even small fluctuations can wipe out high-leverage positions.
🤷 To put it plainly: the market is so boring that even liquidation data is uninteresting.
Suggestion: spend less time watching the charts over the weekend—eat, drink, and relax. Wait until Monday when the whales wake up to decide the outcome.
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