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Bitcoin Leverage Rises as Price Stays Below $80,000

Bitcoin traders
BTCUSD
are currently taking long positions in futures at more than a three-to-one ratio, according to Coinglass data. This imbalance signals bullish confidence near $77,500, but it also increases the risk of forced selling if a sharp correction occurs.

This lopsided positioning has caused the open interest in perpetual BTC to drop by about 6% to 744,300 BTC over the past 24 hours. Traders are starting to reduce leverage, but the long bias still dominates across major exchanges.

Long Bias Meets a Sideways Spot Price

Bitcoin failed to break above $80,000 earlier this week and has since moved down to $77,500, according to Yahoo Finance. This slowing movement has not yet shaken the confidence of market participants who favor the long side. The long/short ratio on Coinglass remains at more than 3 longs for every 1 short.

History shows that extreme imbalances often act as triggers for opposite moves. Overcrowded one-way trading becomes easy “fuel” for short-term reversals.

Coinglass recorded long position liquidations of $22.44 million on April 25, while short positions liquidated totaled $11.60 million. This nearly two-to-one liquidation ratio indicates that the bulls are actually bearing more pressure, even though positions at the account level are still very heavily skewed toward longs.

Bitcoin’s Liquidation Map Shows Concentrated Risk Points

Coinglass’s map shows a dense cluster of long positions with leverage set below the current spot price. Arrangements like this typically worsen downside moves through successive waves of liquidations.

Each long liquidation adds selling pressure to the market, potentially pushing the price toward the next cluster.

In early April, there was a long position worth US$71 juta at risk below $77,300. Meanwhile, above $78,000, short-squeeze conditions had triggered a rally that wiped out millions of bearish positions. Repeated increases in leverage and open interest repeatedly preceded sharp corrections in this cycle.

Whether the spot price can hold at $77,000 will likely determine if the next move is merely a normal cooling-off or instead becomes a sharper liquidation wave. For now, this imbalance makes the market structure fragile, even though it still looks bullish on the surface.