Cardano (ADA) Among Only Coins Seeing Loss-Taking: What It Means

Cardano (ADA) is among the few cryptocurrencies that are still observing loss-taking being the dominant behavior among investors. Bitcoin & Ethereum See Profit-Taking, While Cardano Is Seeing Capitulation According to data from the on-chain analytics firm Santiment, Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) have both been seeing the investors majorly selling at profits, while Cardano has seen the loss-taking outweigh the profit-taking. The indicator of interest here is the “Ratio of Daily On-Chain Transaction Volume in Profit to Loss,” which, as its name already suggests, tells us about how the loss-taking volume of any asset compares against its profit-taking volume. This metric works by going through the transaction history of each coin currently being moved on the blockchain to see what price it moved at before this. If the previous transfer price for any coin was less than the spot value it is being sold at now, then its sale is contributing towards the profit-taking volume. Related Reading: Polygon (MATIC) Whale Makes Large Deposit To Binance, Bearish Sign? Similarly, the coins of the opposite type (that is, those with last price higher than the latest transfer price) add to the loss-taking volume. The indicator takes the total volume of each type and outputs their ratio. Now, here is a chart that shows the trend in this ratio for a few different top cryptocurrencies over the last few months: The value of the metric seems to have been greater than one for most of these assets recently | Source: Santiment on X As displayed in the above graph, all of these assets, except for Cardano, have their Ratio of Daily On-Chain Transaction Volume in Profit to Loss sitting at positive values right now. Such values of the metric imply the profit-taking volume is currently greater than the loss-taking volume for these assets. Ethereum, in particular, seems to have been observing the most aggressive profit-taking spree recently, as the cryptocurrency has been seeing about 2.3 green transactions for every underwater movement. Bitcoin is seeing the second-highest ratio, with 1.8 profit-taking transactions taking place for every loss-taking transfer. It’s much more balanced for the altcoins, however, as XRP (XRP) and Litecoin (LTC) have only been witnessing minimally higher dominance of profit selling…….