What Is the Long-Short Ratio? Why Doesn’t a Majority of Traders Being Long Mean the Market Will Definitely Rise?
In crypto trading, many people see the long-short ratio rise and assume bullish sentiment is strengthening, then choose to chase long positions. But market sentiment and actual price movements do not always align. The long-short ratio can help us understand traders’ positioning bias, but it cannot directly determine how the market will move next.
First, what is the long-short ratio?
The long-short ratio measures the relative proportion of longs to shorts in a given market. However,

EastChainSuperBrother 12 minutes ago

Guys, lately my feed has been full of hype about AI trading crypto—claims that AI can help you find 100x coins and has a 90% win rate.
Honestly, I’m not convinced.
So I’m going to test it myself. I’ll teach AI my trading approach from the past few years, one point at a time, and see whether it can make accurate calls after learning it—and what its win rate is.
I’ve put together a small team: three Claudes to keep an eye on each other and point out each other’s flaws; a Grok to play devil’s advocate; and a WorkBuddy to keep the books, watch the market, and run errands. I’ve set the AIs up in a

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MrFlower_XingChen2 hours ago

#WCTCS9
ZECUSDT LONG: A Trade That Demonstrates the Impact of Market Direction, Entry Precision and Leverage
Every futures trade has two sides: the opportunity presented by the market and the responsibility of managing the risk. A strong result is worth sharing, but understanding the price movement behind that result is what makes a trading experience genuinely valuable.
For my WCTC Season 9 Trading Results Showcase, I want to highlight one of the ZECUSDT long positions I previously shared. This trade stands out because the market moved meaningfully in my favor, producing a reported position

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SergioTesla an hour ago

$BTC
I analyzed all potential swing lows that had a similar reaction off the lows as yesterday.
I found 37 such reactions. 21 of those reactions still took out the low within 10 days.
But the most interesting thing: 16 of those lows failed within the first 2 days.
That means that for this kind of reaction, if a low is to fail, it usually happens fast. Within 1 or 2 days.
If we don't see such a big reversal, then price usually keeps trending higher.
Failed lows in red (taken out within 10 days), lows that held in white:

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moonking an hour ago

Robots on peaqOS now unlock doors and switch lights via Samsung SmartThings
One call away from a smart home network with 430M+ users
Single-use keys, 15 minute expiry, tied to the machine ID on @peaq
Machines with their own key to the building, the $PEAQ use cases keep growing

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murtaza846 2 hours ago

buy good coins, do nothing, hold spot, touch grass, make money season (loading)

WaveTheoryLearningKing 9 minutes ago

After #英伟达#'s 229.98 was breached, the pullback began. Figure 2 shares the monitoring points for the pullback to expand. $NVDA ‌

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智赢舵手 5 minutes ago

You really can never guess what $ONE can do. Three months ago, $ONE rose from $0005 to $0.005 within a few weeks, so the drop to $0.001 is for a stronger rally. Not investment advice, but the next rally will be incredible 💯 If you're trading, like this post 👍 💯ONEPriceAnalysis

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Salahuddin2004 31 minutes agoBearish

ETH PERPETUAL TRADE
SELL SETUP
Short from $2420
Currently $2420
Targeting $2340 or Down
(Trading plan IF ETH
go up to $2480 will add more shorts)
Not a Financial advice
#eth

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furan86999an hour ago

Congress changes hands; crypto traders shouldn’t rush to conclusions
In the same election, Bitcoin fell and then rose. Trading based only on news headlines can easily leave you getting hit from both sides.
After Democrats won a majority of seats in both chambers of the U.S. Congress, the market briefly worried that crypto regulations would tighten. But the market didn’t keep falling on November 4: BTC first dropped below $76k, then recovered its losses and later that day climbed back above $80k.
Two details need to be distinguished. First, the new Congress won’t take office until January 2027,

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Cryptobullmaker 28 minutes ago

$Star most perfect falling wedge breakout retest like $Clanker
Will go only from here
Fully bottomed

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Marcinthematrix 12 minutes ago

Jupiter now offers perpetuals on TSMC, Tencent, Samsung, SK Hynix and BYD, priced by Chainlink feeds covering more than $40 trillion of Asian stock markets.
Jupiter is among the first perps venues live on the new data.
@JupiterExchange

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GateUser-48643a13 an hour ago

AI coins just outran Bitcoin on the bounce, and most holders are reading it as strength.
Run one division before you believe that.
Take your coin's 24h move and divide it by Bitcoin's 24h move.
That number is your multiplier. It tells you how much Bitcoin you are really holding underneath the AI story.
Today's snapshot, with BTC up about 3.5%:
$PEARL up ~15%
Multiplier: about 4.3x
$RENDER up ~6.5%
Multiplier: about 1.9x
$TAO up ~4%
Multiplier: about 1.1x
I could not find a single project catalyst behind this move. The whole sector traded as a leveraged bet on Bitcoin.
Here is the part nobody p

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BlockchainTuoge2 hours ago

$ETH Still wondering whether to buy? The direction is already clear: a drop back to the former resistance level at 2388 is the dividing line. If buyers hold it, the price could head for 2547; if they don’t, don’t try to catch a falling knife. Among similar public blockchains, its chart structure is the cleanest this time around. While others are still building a bottom, it has already broken out of its descending channel. During the sideways stretch before the halving $BTC , capital tended to flow into assets with this kind of clear-cut rhythm. Decide for yourself whether to get in—don’t wait

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ZhouDongye an hour ago

Meta’s massive acquisition of AI coding team Conductor hit the Achilles’ heel of every independent AI developer tool.
On the surface, Zuckerberg is continuing to build out Llama’s application ecosystem.
But in essence, this is a top-tier tech giant making a calculated move to capture the next-generation “developer gateway.”
Conductor’s core offering is agentic code generation and cross-system collaboration, while what Meta lacks most is precisely a well-defined productivity workflow.
In the past, large language models competed on context length and benchmark scores. Now the battle has shifted

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Marcinthematrix an hour ago

Grant Thornton Switzerland attested the Cardano Foundation's 2025 financial statements on Cardano, with the sign-off recorded on the public ledger.
Its global network has $8.5B in yearly revenue and ~80,000 people.
@Cardano

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CryptoSpecto42 minutes ago

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