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$FTT’s Performance 24 hours Following CZ’s revelation

Summary:

  • Yesterday, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao revealed that the exchange intends to liquidate its FTT holdings.
  • Putting the solvency of FTX in doubt, sellers have rampaged the FTT market in the last 24 hours.
  • Daily trading volume was at a six-month high without a corresponding price growth.

Following Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao’s confirmation that the cryptocurrency exchange would liquidate its FTT holdings, investors have since begun distributing their FTT investments.

Trading at $22.47 at the time of press, data from CoinMarketCap revealed that FTT’s price declined by 1.35% in the last 24 hours. However, trading volume was up by over 200% within the same window period. The surge in trading volume without a corresponding price growth creates a price/divergence indicative of increased selling in the past 24 hours.

Per data from on-chain analytics platform Santiment, FTT’s trading volume as of this writing was $745.37 million, the highest daily trading volume the altcoin has recorded in the last six months. 

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Source: Santiment

According to data from Coinglass, 86,085 traders have been liquidated in the general cryptocurrency market, with $145.52 million removed in the last 24 hours.

The amount of FTT liquidations within the same period totaled $3.29 million. This represented 2.26% of the total liquidations in the market.

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Source: Coinglass

If you hold FTT…

In addition to a surge in trading volume, the last 24 hours have been marked by a significant rally in the amount of FTT located within exchanged. Per data from Santiment, this has grown by 32% in the past three days. A surge in an asset’s supply on exchanges means that there is an uptick in short-term selling pressure. Hence, a further drawdown in FTT’s price should be expected.

As expected, FTT’s supply outside of exchanges also dropped by 7% within the same period. This showed that less FTT accumulation had taken place in the last three days.

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Source: Santiment

Further, social discussions around FTT in the past 24 hours have been at its highest in the past six months, data from Santiment revealed. On Santiment’s list of top trending words in the last 24 hours, FTX, FTT, and SBF occupy the first three spots.

Due to the correlation that exists between a crypto asset’s social activity and its price, a surge in such an asset’s social activity without a corresponding growth in its price suggests negative euphoric sentiments that precipitate a price decline.

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Source: Santiment

A look at the asset’s performance on a daily chart showed that buying pressure declined significantly in the last 24 hours. Key indicators such as the Relative Strength Index (RSI) and Money Flow Index (MFI) were positioned in downtrends. 

At press time, the RSI was 39, while the MFI was 35.

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FTT/USDT Chart by Trading View