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Holiday Brief: Liquidations and Outflows Pressure Bitcoin Despite Long Positions Holding

Crypto is leaning toward caution amid liquidations and institutional outflows, while the increase in speculative positions in Ethereum and Solana is not enough to confirm a price reversal. Bitcoin is trading at 75975.64, down -0.16%, but the limited decline is not enough to conclude that selling pressure is easing. BlackRock’s Bitcoin fund recorded outflows of 1.44 billion dollars, alongside a decline in crypto market capitalization amid widespread liquidations. The decrease of -21397 in net speculative positions in Bitcoin nano perpetual contracts adds another sign of reduced exposure, even though positions remain positive. For you, the combination of these signals favors caution about treating price consolidation as the start of a recovery; weekly positioning and outflows do not prove that the current wave of selling is over. Ethereum is down -0.21% and Solana -0.98%, despite an increase in net speculative positions in nano perpetual contracts for both. The weekly increase was +2380 for Ether and +886 for Solana, revealing a bullish bias in those contracts, but it does not prove spot buying in the current market. The positioning data is from the 2026-11-03 report, so it does not capture developments over the holiday. Watch whether prices respond to this positioning; continued price weakness would make the increase in positions a potential source of support that needs confirmation, and rules it out as standalone evidence of a broad recovery.