Gate Strategy Robot Weekly Report: Range Recovery and Risk Preference Divergence Under High-Leverage Deleveraging

This week’s market is in the stage of “high-level deleveraging + risk appetite divergence”: after an initial rally, the crypto market has accumulated a considerable amount of leveraged positions. When prices fall back, concentrated liquidations are triggered, significantly amplifying short-term volatility. After BTC drops below 92,000 and ETH falls below 3,200, the market is more likely to enter a “range correction” rather than an immediate recovery to a bullish trend. Meanwhile, gold and silver hit new highs, indicating a certain demand for safe-haven assets in traditional markets, with funds flowing between different asset classes. Overall, this week’s strategy is better suited to “controlling drawdowns and utilizing range fluctuations,” with a focus on macro data and central bank decisions that may lead to sentiment re-pricing.

Last week (01/12–01/18) market performance

The core feature of last week’s market was “a surge followed by cooling down.” Prices repeatedly oscillated at high levels, requiring stronger sustained buying to push higher; when buying momentum was insufficient, high leverage positions in derivatives were more prone to trigger forced liquidations during pullbacks, thus magnifying downward speed and amplitude. The result was: the upward phase was less smooth than earlier, but the pullback phase was often faster and steeper. Under this structure, strategy returns mainly come from repeated trading within the range, rather than betting on a unidirectional trend.

1｜Market environment overview

BTC is more likely to show a “decline—rebound—retest” range-bound structure in the short term, as the market needs time to digest leverage and sentiment.

ETH is more sensitive to market sentiment; the speed of short-term rebounds and retracements may accelerate.

High-volatility assets like SOL tend to have larger amplitude during deleveraging phases, suitable for participation after position control, but not for continuous adding during pullbacks.

In derivatives, volatility this week is more driven by “position structure”: when key price levels are broken, it will trigger a round of forced liquidations and passive position reductions, amplifying short-term volatility. Therefore, strategy setups should prioritize maximum drawdown limits and stop-loss mechanisms to avoid being passively subjected to consecutive drawdowns in extreme volatility.

2｜Gate Ultra AI strategy operation features

3｜This week’s hot new coin radar

4｜Suggested fund allocation and risk control

5｜Important events this week (UTC+8)

Risk Reminder

Cryptocurrency prices are highly volatile. This content is for market information and strategy observation only and does not constitute any investment advice.