HBAR · 1H · SIDEWAYS

Both my prior reads on HBAR have fully resolved — the long from the 0.0640 base ran all the way to Target 2 at 0.0864, and the subsequent two-sided map from September 8 also printed targets in both directions. The chart has since put in a massive spike to the 0.129–0.130 area on the Nvidia/Hedera news, then crashed back hard. Price is now trading at 0.1060, caught between the residual supply from that spike and the EMA cluster sitting just above — the 9, 20, and 50 EMAs are all compressed in the 0.1044–0.1051 zone and price is threading right through them. The daily trend is up, but on this 1H chart I'm looking at a post-spike structure that has been chopping sideways since the September 29 flush, and there's no clean directional edge here yet.

The dashed line is the current price marker, not a level. The range I'm watching is roughly 0.1030 on the low end — where the EMA 200 is sitting and where price has been finding a floor — and 0.1112–0.1120 on the high end, which is where the spike found sellers and where there's a dense liquidation cluster above. Funding is slightly long-biased at 0.0100% per 8h, nothing extreme, so no squeeze signal in either direction. Open interest of 155M units at current price is a meaningful pool, and those liquidation clusters at 0.1078 and 0.1112 above are magnets if price gets any momentum — but first it needs to close above the EMA cluster convincingly.

Neither side gives me a clean entry right now. A long from the middle of this chop risks getting faded at the EMA cluster overhead; a short counter to a daily uptrend needs a broken structure I don't have.