The Bitcoin market landscape continues to evolve rapidly, with new developments emerging overnight that are reshaping short-term sentiment and long-term investor positioning across spot and derivatives markets. Price action remains steady, while on-chain and institutional signals are shifting.

In an X post, a crypto analyst, Luca, has offered insights on Bitcoin’s recent market movement. Over the past 24 hours, several notable developments in the BTC space have occurred. While BTC price action has been moving lower, funding rates have also declined, a combination that suggests long positions are being flushed out of the market.

However, Luca explains that the Open Interest (OI) has actually increased, pointing to something entirely different and signaling that bears are actively doubling down, not bulls getting liquidated. He believes that the recent drop isn’t driven by longs getting flushed, but by aggressive short positioning, as traders are trying to front-run a potential breakdown.

Historically, this kind of setup often fuels the next major move up, as excessive short exposure creates the perfect conditions for a short squeeze. A full-time crypto trader and investor, Daan Crypto Trades, has also mentioned that the Bitcoin price action, funding rate, and open interest have barely changed this month. Meanwhile, BTC has remained flat in October, despite reaching its first new all-time highs, and then BTC pulled back up to 20% lower.

Daan further highlighted that the neutrality of the funding rate has largely traded at its levels from the past two to three months, particularly dropping back to the level last seen in July, which is the only major change in the movement. This shows that leverage has been reduced, especially compared to when BTC was trading at similar prices in August and September.

The Bitcoin funding flip is officially in, and it might be the signal the market has been waiting for. A popular crypto news source, CryptosRus, has revealed that a negative funding rate has just wiped the market clean. While leverage was flushed out, shorts got paid, and open interest cooled off. This is exactly the kind of deep reset the market needed, and now the sign of recovery is back in the green.

However, every time these funding rates flip from negative to positive after a deep reset, BTC starts building momentum again. BTC saw this same move in June and September, which is currently happening again. CryptosRus further noted that since October 22, the funding has been steadily climbing back above zero, but the BTC price has been consolidating. Such a combination feels like the calm before the next big move.

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