Exercise — Open Interest
Practice: Open Interest cases
Identify when a trend is being fueled by fragile leverage.
Indicator exercise
Sideways price, leverage quietly building
Bitcoin had spent weeks failing to extend higher. The important clue was not a headline; it was the combination of muted price action and positioning that had not fully reset.
0/2 completedDecision window: Aug 16, 2023Curated fallback
OI pressure replayFuture hidden
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Snapshot read
FragileMarket phase
Range compression before a leverage flush
Price context
Price was drifting inside a tired range after the June rally.
Primary signal
Open Interest stayed elevated while price stopped making clean progress.
Supporting clues
Funding was not enough to justify chasing
Liquidation risk was concentrated below the range
The setup depended on positioning, not news
Decision quiz
What is the best CounterFlow read when OI stays elevated while price fails to advance?
Choose an answer to reveal the future candles and the CounterFlow read.
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