The CEL is Celsius Network's native token and has almost quadrupled since June 19. This indicates very active day traders.
CEL's price rose from $0.67 on June 19 to $1.59 on June 21. This corresponds to an increase of 180 percent. In comparison, the crypto market rose by 12.37 percent over the same period.
The rally began after PlanC, an independent market analyst, bid $20 million if anyone could prove that the Celsius Network was the victim of a coordinated third-party attack, causing the crypto lending company to suspend payouts last week.
The announcement caused an uproar on Twitter , with many accounts using the hashtag #CelShortSqueeze on their profiles. In doing so, they showed that they would target investors who had bet that CEL's price would fall.
The hashtag went viral on Twitter in the United States. Between June 12th and June 18th, the term "CEL short squeeze" achieved a perfect score of 100 in terms of searches according to Google Trends.
The hashtag and catchphrase suggest that day traders have been buying CEL tokens en masse, driving the price higher.
Thus, investors with short positions had to buy back the tokens at a higher rate to "cover" their positions. This caused them massive losses.
Therefore, the so-called "short squeeze" was successful and resulted in a strong CEL rally.
The event was reminiscent of the GameStock situation in January 2021, where some Reddit users benefited by destroying short positions held by Melvin Capital and other hedge funds. That also caused hedge funds to lose billions of dollars at the time .
Insolvency risk remains
Celsius Network, which managed over $20 billion in digital assets last year , is currently at risk of bankruptcy . The reason for this is the excessively high returns (up to 18 percent) on customers' crypto deposits, which the platform can no longer support.
As of May, Celsius had just $12 billion in assets under management. That is almost half as much as in early 2022, as the website says. The company then stopped disclosing its assets under management.
CEL is the native currency within the Celsius ecosystem for interest income and debt repayment. The cryptocurrency continues to face downward pressure as it is nearly 84 percent below its April 2021 peak of $8.
CEL/USD could now retest USD 1.95 as a resistance level as shown on the Fibonacci retracement chart below.
CEL/USD weekly chart. Source: TradingView
If CEL breaks out of this level, it could test $3.11 next. On the other hand, a decline could drop the pair to $0.34, declining current support.
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