$VVV This move is kind of interesting.
The price pushed up by 1.9%, while volume directly surged to more than 2x. In the 5m close, it strongly broke through the upper edge of nearly 20 K-lines. But take a closer look at OI—on the 15m timeframe it’s actually negative, -0.03%.
So what does that indicate? This push upward doesn’t really look like fresh longs actively opening positions. It’s more like shorts are being forced into covering. Active buy/sell is 1.42, and active traded volume is 17.5% lower—buyers are indeed leading, but open interest didn’t keep up.
Instead, if you look at the 1h chart, OI turns slightly positive again, +0.28%, with nominal change of 1.28M. So my understanding is: in the short cycle, this is old positions being covered, while in the medium cycle, capital is slowly stepping in.
The OI abnormal percentile is 93.1%, ranking
#11 across the whole pool; nominal change ranks #22. This is already an extreme zone. And it isn’t an isolated outlier of a single timeframe—multiple consecutive cycles are continuing, with volume higher than normal, and the price just happens to be pressing right up against the boundary of the recent range.
In other words, short covering can push the price up, but after it’s done, if there’s no new wave of fresh longs to take over, it’s just a pulse. Right now OI isn’t surging with heavy volume, so I lean toward observing first to see whether the upper end of this range can hold. If it holds, there’s still room. If it can’t, then once the covering is finished, it will likely disperse.
No rush to chase—let it move on its own.