$BTC Liquidated Short: $74.4K at 78,173.80

Shorts were forced out as price pushed up through their stops.

This is buy pressure created by liquidations, not organic breakout strength.

After a short squeeze, price often travels higher into the next liquidity shelf where fresh shorts stack in again.

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🧠 What This Means

When shorts get wiped:

1. Price spikes up on forced buys

2. Late longs FOMO in

3. Fresh shorts wait higher at resistance

4. Market makers push into that zone → the Short Pot

You don’t short the squeeze.

You short where the next stops are.

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🎯 BTC Short Pot Zones

These are the high-probability rejection areas if momentum stalls:

78,900 – 79,400 → first liquidity shelf above the squeeze

79,800 – 80,300 → psychological 80K magnet + stop cluster

81,200 – 82,000 → larger swing high liquidity

Expect wicks, traps, and fast reversals if price tags these zones without strong continuation.

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⚠️ Trader Trap

Most traders will: ❌ Short too early after the spike

❌ Long the breakout into resistance

❌ Get trapped in volatility

Pros will: ✅ Wait for price to tap the short pot

✅ Enter where stops are tight above

✅ Target the unwind back into imbalance

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📌 Playbook

Short squeeze → relief push → short liquidity → rejection.

Right now, BTC is between squeeze and liquidity hunt.

Be patient. Let price come to the zone.