Will Uniswap sellers get more leverage?

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• UNI’s price action hit a roadblock at the $4.4 resistance, resulting in another price drop.
• Sellers looked to gain the advantage with an increase in short positions.

Despite the bullish market conditions, Uniswap [UNI] failed to break above the mix of a resistance level and bearish order block at the $4.4 price zone.

Read Uniswap’s [UNI] Price Prediction 2023-24

AMBCrypto’s previous outlook on UNI highlighted the selling pressure that the altcoin was under, with bulls needing to scale multiple price hurdles. While bulls were able to scale the $4.2 price hurdle, the bearish order block at $4.4 was a step too far.

This led to an 8% drop over five days, with UNI trading at $4 as of the time of writing.

Low demand limited bullish rally

Source: UNI/USDT on Trading View

The On Balance Volume (OBV) declined by over $5 million within the period under consideration. This loss of trading volume stalled the bullish rally, which allowed sellers back into the market at the resistance level.

With price trading at a mid-point between the $4.4 resistance and $3.8 support, a retest of the $3.8 support looked more likely in the short term.

This was further supported by the Relative Strength Index (RSI) dropping below the neutral 50 – a sign of weakening buying pressure and an increase in selling pressure.

Thus, both UNI’s price action and on-chart indicators revealed the short-term bearish bias in the market.

Another factor that could be affecting UNI is the recent imposition of an interface fee of 0.15% on Uniswap with traders favoring a sell-off rather than an accumulation, based on AMBCrypto‘s findings.

Traders chose to go short based on UNI’s spot market activity

Source: Coinglass

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Market speculators in the futures market were bearish in the short term. According to Coinglass, the exchange long/short ratio showed that shorts had a 51.38% share of the open contracts on UNI.

This hinted at a further price dip in the short term, with the $3.8 support becoming the best possible price level for another bullish rebound.