$LAB ‌ As the cold wind passes through, the 4-hour chart of LAB shows a strange long lower shadow. It drops straight from 0.96 to 0.60, then quickly recovers above 0.64. This is not a collapse; it's a shakeout-style manipulation.

Careful look at the chip distribution: the whale's nominal long-short ratio is 990%, smart money is 908%, and long positions are almost ten times the short positions. But interestingly, the average opening price of profitable whales is at 0.502, while the cost basis of losing whales is at 0.630—just around the current price. These large losing traders weren't shaken out; instead, they added positions at the tail.
On the 30-minute chart, 104 traders are buying on dips, while 119 are panicking and selling. A classic point of extreme long-short divergence.
The script for the market maker is simple: they want to scare out the uncertain longs at 0.63-0.64 completely. The next move is likely—first fake a break below 0.63, triggering technical stop-loss orders, then rebound past 0.66, trapping those chasing shorts. Only through repeated pinning and grinding can they lighten the positions enough before a high-level distribution.
The real main upward wave has never lacked deep dips. When panic spreads in the group and smart money quietly absorbs chips at the needle's tip, what you should do is not tremble at that bearish candle. The bigger the storm, the more expensive the fish.
Is this dip a golden pit or a guillotine? The script is already written—where do you plan to sit?