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SUI is trading around $0.673 as of this print, down roughly 1% on the day after tagging an intraday high near $0.68 earlier in the session. Yahoo Finance's daily bars show the same story — Thursday's session opened at $0.6896, spiked to $0.6916, and slid all the way to $0.6690 before closing at $0.6714, and today's candle has picked up right where that weakness left off.
On the surface, funding rates look almost boring — barely positive, hovering near neutral. But dig one layer deeper and the derivatives board tells a very different story: open interest has climbed more than 15% in the past week. That's fresh leverage entering the market, not exiting it, and it's stacking up on the long side into a tape that's actively selling. That combination — crowded longs, aggressive sell-side taker flow, and a key intraday floor that just gave way — is the entire story of today's Daily Pulse.
Zooming into today's session specifically, SUI opened near $0.685 and immediately gave that back. From there it chopped sideways in a tight band between roughly $0.67 and $0.68 for most of the day — the kind of range-bound grind that signals a market waiting for a catalyst rather than committing to a direction.

Then, right into this print, a sharp red candle broke below the $0.67 shelf that had held all session. That's the freshest and most important development on the chart right now — a short-term floor that traders had been leaning on for hours just gave way on rising volume, which is exactly the kind of break that tends to trigger stop-loss cascades in a market this leveraged.
Widen out to the four-hour timeframe and the picture doesn't improve. SUI has been carving a clean descending channel since it topped out near $0.78 in late July — lower highs, lower lows, textbook downtrend structure.

Right now price is hugging the bottom rail of that channel, not the middle or the top. Every attempt to rally back toward the midpoint of the range over the past week has been met with sellers stepping in early — a classic sign of a market where supply is still in control. Until that channel actually breaks to the upside, the medium-term trend remains down, and today's candles are just the latest leg lower within it.
On the daily, the bigger story is a market that topped near $1.42 back in May and has been grinding lower ever since, with a brief squeeze attempt in July that also failed to hold. SUI is now sandwiched between resistance from that descending channel overhead and a support shelf near $0.65 underneath — the same shelf that held back in June.

Today's price sits basically right on top of that support-and-channel confluence. That makes this a genuine decision zone rather than background noise — the kind of level where the next few sessions likely determine whether SUI grinds sideways-to-down toward $0.65, or finds enough buyers to attempt another squeeze back toward the mid-channel.
The daily RSI sits at 37. That's neutral territory — it's not screaming oversold the way it was back in late January or early June, both of which marked actual SUI bottoms. What matters more here is the shape: RSI peaked in the mid-fifties in July and has been rolling over ever since, matching the price action step for step.

Translation: sellers still have room to push before this gets stretched enough to attract dip-buyers on momentum alone.
The MACD backs up what RSI is hinting at. The MACD line has crossed below its signal line, and the histogram has flipped negative — both classic markers that momentum has shifted back to the sell side.

This exact cross-under pattern showed up right before the slide into February and again before the drop in late June. That's not a guarantee of a repeat, but it's the same fingerprint twice in a row, and that's worth respecting rather than dismissing.
Here's where it gets tactical. Spot is trading around $0.67, with a heavy bid wall stacked at $0.66 acting as the market's near-term floor, and a large ask wall at $0.72 capping the upside.

| Level | Price | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Ask wall (resistance) | $0.72 | Sell liquidity |
| Liquidation cluster (heaviest) | $0.6805 | Long liquidations |
| Liquidation cluster | $0.6917 | Long liquidations |
| Liquidation cluster | $0.6738 | Long liquidations |
| Spot price | $0.67 | Current |
| Liquidation pocket | $0.6693 | Below spot |
| Bid wall (support) | $0.66 | Buy liquidity |
| June structural shelf | $0.6514 | Major support |
Between spot and the $0.66 bid wall sits a cluster of recent liquidations, with $0.6805 the heaviest of the bunch — a level the market has already fought over once today. Below spot, another liquidation pocket sits near $0.6693. If that goes, the next real structural floor isn't until the June shelf at $0.6514, which lines up almost exactly with the daily support zone discussed above.
This is the tension that makes today's setup interesting rather than obvious. Funding is barely positive — near neutral — but open interest has climbed over 15% in the past week, meaning fresh leverage is entering, not exiting.
| Metric | Reading | Interpretation |
|---|---|---|
| Retail long/short ratio (Binance) | 2.01 net long | Retail crowded long |
| Top trader long/short ratio (Binance) | 2.27 net long | Smart money aligned long — no fade edge |
| Funding rate | +9% APR | Longs paying — crowded-long, squeeze-down fuel |
| Taker flow | Sell-dominant | Aggressive selling into a long-skewed book |
| Coinbase premium vs. Binance | -0.045% | US spot side is selling, not buying |
| Open interest (7-day change) | +15%+ | Fresh leverage stacking up |
Both retail and top-trader accounts on Binance are net long, roughly two-to-one, so there's no easy contrarian fade sitting in positioning alone. But taker flow tells a different story entirely — sell orders are outpacing buys, which is aggressive selling pressure hitting a book that's already tilted long.
Crowded longs, plus aggressive sell-side taker flow, plus soft US spot demand — that combination typically favors a shakeout rather than a squeeze. It's the setup where over-leveraged longs get flushed before any real bounce can stick.
Zooming out, SUI's broader 2026 arc has been one of steady distribution: a top near $1.42 in May, a failed squeeze in July, and now a slow grind back toward the June support shelf. Broader market context from Bybit shows SUI's 24-hour range today between $0.669 and $0.681, confirming the market is still oscillating inside a tight band even as the intraday floor cracks. Other trackers, including Paribu's historical price feed, show SUI changing hands in a similar $0.69-ish zone just days earlier, underscoring how quickly this pair has slipped toward the lower end of its recent range.
| Parameter | Level | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Entry (short bias) | $0.6805 | Into the heaviest liquidation cluster, on confirmation of rejection |
| Stop loss | $0.72 | Above the daily ask wall — the level that kills the trade |
| Target | $0.6514 | June structural shelf / daily support confluence |
| Risk/Reward | ~1:2.5 | Based on entry-to-stop vs. entry-to-target distance |
SUI's 67-cent floor just cracked into the close, and the market metrics underneath the price — surging open interest, sell-dominant taker flow, and a discounted Coinbase premium — all point toward more leverage unwinding rather than an imminent squeeze. That doesn't mean a bounce can't happen; crowded long positioning on Binance means a short, sharp move could still occur if shorts get squeezed. But the weight of evidence across the 15-minute, 4-hour, and daily timeframes, backed by both RSI and MACD, currently favors the downside case toward the $0.65 June shelf.
This analysis is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Crypto markets are highly volatile — always manage risk according to your own plan, and treat leverage-based setups with extra caution, especially near liquidation-dense zones like the ones mapped above.
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