AVAX · 1H · DOWNTREND
The NYSE deal spiked price into 9.01 — the top of the zone I was watching — and it has since faded hard back to 8.64. The rejection is structurally clean: price touched the upper end of the 8.81–9.01 resistance zone and failed to hold above it, daily trend is still down, and the two-step setup I published yesterday is effectively live. The question now is whether price gives me a re-test of that zone to get a clean entry, or whether it just continues lower from here. From 8.64 mid-range between 8.50 support and 8.81 resistance, I have no clean entry — I'm not shorting into the middle of this range and I'm not chasing. I'm waiting for price to rally back into the zone so the rejection can confirm on a close.
Extreme negative funding (-0.0519% per 8h) keeps me alert to a squeeze, but the structural rejection from 9.01 is real and the daily trend is down. I'm sizing down because of the crowded short positioning, not abandoning the thesis.
SHORT SCENARIO
Confirmation
8.81
On a rally to the 8.81–9.01 zone, a 1H close back below 8.65 confirms the rejection and re-enters the downtrend.
Invalidation
9.15
Above the swept cluster at 9.01; a close there means the news catalyst produced a genuine structural reclaim, not a stop-hunt fade.
Target 1
7.94
Dense liquidation cluster below, nearest structural magnet.
Target 2
7.46
Next dense cluster below, extended objective if 7.94 breaks.
Risk/Reward
(8.65 − 7.94) / (9.15 − 8.65) = 0.71 / 0.50 = 1.4:1
Confidence
MEDIUM — structure is clean and the rejection from resistance is real, but extreme short funding means squeeze risk is elevated; sizing down accordingly
Resistance: 8.81 (dense liquidation cluster, lower end of the rally zone) / 9.01 (swept cluster, top of the news spike) / 9.15 (invalidation — structural reclaim above the swept cluster)
Support: 8.50 (dense liquidation cluster, nearest floor) / 7.94 (dense cluster, Target 1) / 7.46 (dense cluster, Target 2)
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