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

🇺🇸ETF FLOWS: ETH and SOL spot ETFs saw net inflows on Feb. 17, while BTC spot ETFs saw net outflows. $BTC - $104.87M $ETH ~ $48.63M $SOL ~ $2.19M $XRP : 0