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Story: Shiba Inu Drops Below $0.000005 as $176K in Longs Get Wiped

By Julie Binoche

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Momentum Fades After Overbought Rejection. The Relative Strength Index pulled back from overbought territory and is sitting near 53.

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Exchange Reserves Rise, Selling Risk Builds. On-chain data isn't helping the bull case right now.

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Shiba Inu can't hold a rally. The token slipped back under the $0.00000500 resistance mark after what looked, briefly, like a real breakout — and now sellers are back in charge.

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Last week's move had some traders feeling good. SHIB pushed higher, broke out of its range, and generated the kind of buzz the meme-coin crowd lives for.

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The Relative Strength Index pulled back from overbought territory and is sitting near 53. That's not a disaster reading, but it's not bullish either.

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Long liquidations hit approximately $176,000 in recent sessions. Short liquidations? Just under $13,000.

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Futures markets are showing caution too. Flows have turned negative over longer periods, which is a shift from where sentiment was sitting when the rally was building.

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More context: The Canadian Dollar Slides as Oil Drops Below Key Levels Again

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On-chain data isn't helping the bull case right now. Exchange reserves have ticked up slightly, meaning more SHIB is sitting on trading platforms and available to sell.

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The increase in overall on-chain inflows runs in the same direction. More tokens moving toward exchanges, not away from them.

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For bulls, the math is pretty straightforward. Reclaiming the 50-day moving average is the first real objective. Without that, the trend stays bearish by most standard readings.

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But getting back above $0.00000500 is the actual test. The token has failed there, and resistance that's been tested and held tends to get stickier, not weaker, on the next…

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Read also: Bitcoin Cash Stuck Below $200 as Sellers Dominate Every Rally Attempt

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The spot market staying positive is maybe the one thing keeping this from looking completely one-sided. There's still buying happening.

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Exchange reserves up, RSI fading, $176,000 in long liquidations cleared out — SHIB's first support sits at $0.00000465.

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