Liquidate longs, then squeeze shorts? $ZEC After wiping out 88% of longs, is 980 a windfall or a trap?

Where shorts are crowded, they often become the market makers’ fattest ATM.

I’ll be blunt: the main players’ intentions are clear—liquidate longs first, then set the stage for a short squeeze. Liquidations totaled 32.88 million in 24 hours, with long positions accounting for 28.95 million—88% of the losses came from longs. Net outflows over 15 days reached 260 million, and the fund flow score hit -100. This isn’t a shakeout; it’s a one-sided beating. The whale data is even more telling: 646 short sellers raked in 30.48 million, while 157 long sellers lost 8.67 million. Shorts have already taken their profits.

My personal view: With 2.2 billion in short positions crowded together and shorts piled high above on the liquidation map, the odds of market makers reversing course and pushing prices up to liquidate shorts are much better than those of continuing to drive prices down and liquidate the remaining longs. But jumping straight into longs is still like catching a falling knife—CPI came in above expectations, the Fed struck a hawkish tone, and BTC has already fallen below 73k. Macro liquidity is tightening, leaving ZEC no ground for an independent V-shaped reversal.

Trading advice: Aggressive traders can short now; conservative traders should wait for a rebound to the 1010–1020 zone and short if it meets resistance. Stop-loss at 1055, target 950.

Is 980 a graveyard for bulls or a trap for bears? @老张说趋势 I’ll keep following this.
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