In response to information supplied by CoinGlass, Binance customers are overwhelmingly lengthy XRP.
A powerful 67.6% of accounts are on the lengthy facet of the commerce. The lengthy/ratio at present stands at 2.09.
Notably, the identical additionally applies to the change’s prime merchants who’re within the prime 20% of Binance’s customers by margin steadiness.
This isn’t the case for Bitcoin: the biggest cryptocurrency is at present being shorted by practically 55% of Binance accounts.
Total, nevertheless, a slight majority of merchants (51.32%) are nonetheless betting in opposition to the Ripple-affiliated token, so the bullishness is proscribed to Binance and a number of other different buying and selling platforms corresponding to BitMEX.
XRP’s open curiosity, which represents the overall variety of open derivatives contracts, at present stands at $3.15 billion after declining by greater than 4% over the previous 24 hours.
Practically $4 million value of XRP has been liquidated over the previous 24 hours. Lengthy positions make up the lion’s share of liquidations (61.5%).
At press time, XRP is up by 1.18% on the Binance change, altering palms at $2.15. Earlier right this moment, the cryptocurrency reached an intraday excessive of $2.16.
The token has now recovered by roughly 25% after plunging to a multi-month low of $1.6 on Apr. 7 amid a broader market sell-off pushed by macroeconomic uncertainty.
