Leading cryptocurrencies continued their range-bound price action Monday following a brief spike.
What Happened: Bitcoin broke through $70,000 temporarily during the day, before retracing to the $68,000-$69,000 zone. The world's second-largest cryptocurrency has traded sideways since hitting its all-time high in March.
Similarly, Ethereum met a wave of selling pressure at $3,840, causing it to dip back to $3,700.
In the past 24 hours, 59,744 traders were liquidated, with the total liquidations coming in at $127.79 million. Nearly 60% were long liquidations.
Due to Bitcoin's upward moves, speculative traders got excited. Open Interest in Bitcoin futures rose 2.48% to $35.13 billion in the last 24 hours.
The surge was due to traders opening bullish long positions for Bitcoin, as the Longs/Shorts Ratio increased to 1.06 as of this writing.
The Cryptocurrency Fear & Greed Index flashed "Greed" as of this writing, signaling upside potential in the days to come.
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