Bitcoin reaches 'short squeeze' trigger zone as BTC price nears $20.4K

cointelegraph.com:

Bitcoin (BTC) regained some lost ground at the Aug. 29 Wall Street open amid talk of an imminent short squeeze.

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD climbing to near $20,400 on Bitstamp as United States equities began trading.

The move signaled welcome relief for hodlers, who had looked on as the pair dove increasingly below $20,000 during the weekend.

Now, with the market “aggressively short positioned,” conditions appeared to favor a further relief bounce to burn those nursing short trades.

Looks like we're doing a little bearbecue. https://t.co/smRfCWC2C0

“You know what is next,” popular Twitter account Il Capo of Crypto warned, reinforcing his belief that the bounce would be followed by a deeper retracement.

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Data from on-chain monitoring resource Coinglass meanwhile showed liquidations beginning to mount at the time of writing, with combined cross-crypto liquidations at $166 million in 24 hours.

U.S. stocks themselves opened slightly in the red, while the U.S. dollar index (DXY), having earlier put in a new twenty-year high, began retargeting its peak after a prior retracement.

U.S. stock markets are opening red, while the $DXY shows some weakness today.Wouldn't expect much further downside on risk-on assets and expect a slight bounce through the day.

“$DXY could be nearing its macro top similar way Bitcoin has in April 2021,” trader JACKIS summarized.

Zooming out, the mood among analysts remained lackluster in the face of ongoing macro turmoil.

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After last week's Federal Reserve comments removed any hope of a policy pivot, stocks had little impetus for optimism as quantitative