
{"id":35470,"date":"2025-01-13T18:58:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T18:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=35470"},"modified":"2025-01-13T18:58:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T18:58:51","slug":"ethereum-bulls-face-185m-in-liquidations-as-eth-price-slumps-to-2-month-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=35470","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum Bulls Face $185M in Liquidations as ETH Price Slumps to 2-Month Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the broader market\u2019s correction yet again today, ETH\u2019s price has taken a major hit and tumbled below $3,000 for the first time since early November.<\/p>\n<p>This has caused a lot of liquidations for over-leveraged bulls, with the number skyrocketing to nearly $200 million only for ETH-related positions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ETHUSD.png\"><\/a>ETHUSD. Source: TradingView<\/p>\n<p>As the graph above demonstrates, the second-largest cryptocurrency broke above $3,000 after the US elections in early November and didn\u2019t look back for the next two months.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the asset peaked at just over $4,100 on December 16, but that was as far as it could go. During the end-of-the-year crash, ETH slumped to $3,100 but managed to defend the $3,000 support.<\/p>\n<p>It bounced off and went on the offensive at the start of 2025. Its yearly peak came on January 7 when it jumped to $3,750. However, that\u2019s when the landscape took a turn for the worse, and ETH, alongside the rest of the market, started to plunge.<\/p>\n<p>The subsequent rejection drove Ethereum\u2019s price to $3,300, where it spent most of the next few days. However, another leg down initiated by the bears today pushed it south even further, and it slipped below $3,000 minutes ago for the first time since early November.<\/p>\n<p>ETH is down by precisely 20% since its January 7 high (or $750 in USD perspective). Today\u2019s drop was particularly painful for over-leveraged traders with long positions, as the total such liquidations has gone up to $185 million, according to CoinGlass.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, ETH\u2019s liquidations have surpassed even those for <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitcoin-btc-plunges-to-90600-amid-declining-whale-activity-whats-next\/\">BTC<\/a>, whose price <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/btc-plunges-below-91k-for-the-first-time-since-november-leaves-500m-in-liquidations\/\">tumbled<\/a> from $96,000 earlier this morning to under $90,000 briefly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-13-205537.png\"><\/a>Liquidation Heat Map. Source: CoinGlass<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/ethereum-bulls-face-185m-in-liquidations-as-eth-price-slumps-to-2-month-low\/\">Ethereum Bulls Face $185M in Liquidations as ETH Price Slumps to 2-Month Low<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the broader market\u2019s correction yet again today, ETH\u2019s price has taken a major hit and tumbled below $3,000 for the first time since early November. This has caused a lot of liquidations for over-leveraged bulls, with the number skyrocketing to nearly $200 million only for ETH-related positions. ETHUSD. Source: TradingView As the graph above [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":35471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}