Whales, as large holders, have a great influence on prices. In general, when they make significant sales, they create downward pressure that pushes the price of BTC down.
This week in the cryptocurrency market has been characterized by a significant amount of liquidation that has driven prices to multi-week lows. As far as the large wallet sector is concerned, the so-called bitcoin whales. Trading decreased, albeit noticeably. Towards the end of the week, this trend became particularly pronounced.
The price of BTC is at the lowest point it has been in the last two weeks. ETH dropped to $2870 per coin.
First Half of the Week
Just because trading in the large portfolios has been down in recent days does not mean that there have not been significant cumulative moves. In fact, the trend for the month of July was notably bullish, with over $5.4 billion bought by the big whales.
Earlier in the week, large investors took advantage of the Trump-related backdrop to accumulate coins. This helped push the price of BTC to $70,000. However, for many portfolios, this is exactly the point of profit taking.
Macroeconomic data in the United States began to look challenging. Thus, despite good signals from the FOMC on the rectors, BTC could not hold. From Wednesday, the conditions for large investors changed.
Second Half of the Week
In anticipation of low new payrolls and rising unemployment in the U.S., liquidations began to become more aggressive and the price of bitcoin on the spot market showed the first signs of a steep decline. On Friday, with the confirmation of the above-mentioned data (114,000 jobs added in July and unemployment rate of 4.3%), the price of the currency plunged.
At first glance, investors do not seem very confident. However, some whales are taking advantage of the fact that bitcoin is falling to increase their holdings. On the other hand, according to specialized media, whales have the highest activity on exchanges in 9 years. Therefore, there is a suspicion that the fall will have a greater impact.
On the other hand, the current fall is leading to the fact that the accumulation is beginning to take shape in a different group of whales. According to other sources, the accumulation process is reaching 10-year highs. Predicting the price of BTC seems complicated with this volatile disposition of the whales.
Latest Whale Movements
Over the past few hours, bitcoin whale trading has decreased significantly, but there have also been some strong buying movements. According to the Telegram bot WhaleBot Alerts, about 4,000 BTC were sent from an unknown wallet to the OKEX exchange shortly before the writing of this article.
At the same time, there have been numerous transfers of between 200 and 400 BTC each to unknown wallets from various exchanges. Either way, the situation remains bearish for the BTC price, suggesting that the whales are not buying the discount en masse.
Spot Bitcoin ETFs
Institutional investors are a final element related to the bitcoin whales. These would have played a particularly strong role, especially in the bitcoin plunge traded since Friday. In short, the ETF’s behavior will be the best indicator for the BTC price.
Friday’s outflows were outsized in the red after a week of buying lows. On Friday alone, $237.4 million in shares of these funds were liquidated, according to the Farside Investors portal.
This liquidation was in line with the aforementioned macroeconomic data in the U.S., which caused the stock market of the world’s leading economy to plummet across the board.
By Leonardo Perez