Market Insight — Structure, Liquidity & Risk Positioning (Crypto Futures)

Current market behavior is showing a classic liquidity-driven structure rather than a clean trend continuation. On higher timeframes, price is rotating inside a defined range, with repeated sweeps above equal highs and below equal lows — a strong indication that smart money is engineering liquidity before expansion. Retail breakout entries are getting trapped, which confirms a stop-hunt environment.

Order flow suggests absorption near range extremes and inefficient price delivery in the mid-range. That typically precedes a displacement move once imbalance aligns with HTF bias. Until a confirmed range break with acceptance (not just wick), probability favors mean reversion trades instead of breakout chasing.

Derivatives metrics (funding skew + OI behavior pattern) in this type of structure usually reward patience: wait for liquidity grab → displacement candle → fair value gap retrace → continuation entry. Risk should be defined outside the liquidity sweep, not inside noise.