1. Core Trading Signal (Gate.io Global Perspective)

- SOL Long-Short Divergence:

- Retail Investors (Number of Accounts/Users): 66.46% long positions, Long-Short user ratio 1.98, retail investors are aggressively bullish.

- Large Investors (Number of Accounts/Position Size): 62.68% short positions, Long-Short account ratio 0.59; 54.21% short positions in holdings, large investors are clearly leaning bearish.

- Total Large Orders on the Network: 24-hour long vs short transactions are roughly equal (1.18 billion vs 1.21 billion), but within 1 hour, longs (572K) significantly outnumber shorts (281K), a typical operation to squeeze and trap short sellers.

- BTC/ETH Overall Long-Short:

- BTC overall long-short ratio 61.03% vs 38.97%, but Gate.io perpetual contracts are nearly balanced (50.64% vs 49.36%), indicating large traders on Gate are hedging.

- ETH overall long-short ratio 61.97% vs 38.03%, but the short position ratio in Gate.io perpetual contracts is 62.60%, showing large traders are focusing on short positions on Gate.

- Liquidations and Capital Flows: #Gate广场发帖领五万美金红包 #当前行情抄底还是观望？

- 1-hour short liquidations total 4.1565 million, far exceeding long liquidations at 1.0725 million, providing direct evidence of main forces squeezing and trapping shorts.

- SOL net capital inflow of 35.3975 million, total network contract funds net inflow of 601 million, indicating a large amount of funds actively opening long positions while forcing short liquidations. $SOL