🐋 Whale Opens Massive Shorts — How Low Can BTC & Alts Go This Cycle?

[Arman Shaban]

Whales are flipping to an aggressive short bias — large sellers are stacking up positions across BTC and top alts. The question now: where’s the trap zone, and when’s the rebound snap?

Key Things I’m Watching:

Liquidity clusters below — nodes around $110K–$105K and $98K–$92K are prime zones likely to absorb moves.

Open interest & funding rates — if OI stays high while funding flips negative, that signals capitulation from crowd.

Support confluence zones — BTC + ETH demand zones overlapping with derivatives pain points will be magnets for reversals.

Possible Scenarios:

Short squeeze opportunity — a whale bait downward to get stops, then rally hard.

Bleed down deeper — if support fails, price could test structural floors around $85K or lower.

Sideways pain — consolidation between $95K–$105K while the big guys reposition.

I lean toward some short squeeze chop first — cleaning up weak hands — before a serious directional move.