Long Crypto Traders Feel Pain as Bitcoin's Slide Leads to $430M in Liquidations

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Long Crypto Traders Feel Pain as Bitcoin's Slide Leads to $430M in Liquidations
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Futures traders betting on the continued recovery of crypto prices were caught in the crosshairs after bitcoin dropped to under $40,000 in the past 24 hours. By shauryamalwa

Futures traders betting on the continued recovery of crypto prices were caught in the crosshairs after bitcoin dropped to under $40,000 in the past 24 hours. Traders racked up over $430 million in losses to liquidations, according to data from Coinglass.

Longs, or positions of traders betting on upward prices, took the biggest hit and accounted for nearly 90%, or $386 million, of all losses in the past 24 hours. Shorts saw a relatively lower $44 million in losses.Traders of bitcoin futures lost $156 million alone, followed by ether futures at $102.85 million, and SOL futures, which track Solana’s native tokens, at $12.41 million. Futures Dogecoin’s DOGE and Stepn’s GMT notched up a combined $16 million in losses after a run last week.

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