Dogecoin (DOGE) soared on Oct. 28 amid massive capital rotations out of its meridian meme money rival's marketplace, Shiba Inu (SHIB).

Notably, DOGE's toll rallied by a petty over 44% to accomplish its intraday high of $0.3449. Its gains appeared in contrast to SHIB's losses in the same menses. On the other hand, the so-called "Dogecoin killer" dropped almost 28% to log an intraday low at around $0.000057; in the aforementioned hour, DOGE printed its daily top.

SHIB/USD vs. DOGE/USD daily cost chart noting changed correlation. Source: TradingView

The sudden price rally besides pushed DOGE's market place capitalization to over $40 billion, a mettle that Shiba Inu accomplished hours earlier, with the two cryptocurrencies now neck-and-neck and currently contesting for the ninth identify by market cap.

Traders started flocking into Dogecoin markets hours subsequently Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, posted a new tweet about the meme cryptocurrency.

Musk's earlier supportive tweets prompted DOGE to climb by more than 1,500% in the first five months of 2022.

Long DOGE, brusk SHIB

Shiba Inu rallied exponentially heading into Q4, rising by around 1,200% in October on hopes that it would gain a listing on Robinhood, a United States-based zero-fee trading app, and its foray into the emerging decentralized finance and nonfungible token sectors with new product launches.

Nonetheless, SHIB'south supersonic bull run has too made it overvalued, based on some primal metrics, notably the Relative Strength Alphabetize. Thus, information technology appears that spot and derivative traders have decided to secure and/or rotate their profits.

Su Zhu, co-founder, CEO and chief information officeholder of fund management firm Three Arrows Capital letter, noted earlier on Thursday that traders rotated their easy-to-curt Shiba Inu perpetual swap profits — as SHIB topped out at $0.00008854 — into the Dogecoin perpetual market.

The former Deutsche Bank trader suggested that DOGE tin can rally toward $0.88 side by side should traders rotate profits from SHIB to Dogecoin.

Effectually $twenty.8 meg DOGE rekt

Dogecoin's price moves also defenseless derivatives traders off-guard every bit they lost about $xx.8 million in total liquidations beyond the previous 24 hours. Around $18.17 million worth of those liquidations emerged out of leveraged long bets after DOGE's price dropped to its weekly low of $0.2179 on Wednesday.

In dissimilarity, the ongoing 12-hour timeframe saw bears taking more losses than bulls, with $8.ix one thousand thousand worth of bearish Dogecoin bets getting liquidated against $5.22 million worth of bullish bets concerning the same token.

DOGE total liquidations across all exchanges. Source: Bybt

On the whole, nevertheless, Dogecoin traders were the bulk short in the previous 24 hours, with FTX and OKEx users turning out to be exceptionally bullish, with 58% and 77% of their net positions skewed long, respectively.

A sudden surly reversal in the Shiba Inu market besides led to SHIB liquidations worth $31.41 meg, the third-highest among all cryptocurrencies in the previous 24 hours.

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PostyXBT, an independent market annotator, warned about excessive leverages in both SHIB and DOGE markets.

"Play spot and not leverage," he said, adding, "The volatility could quite hands wipe out before a large move in intended direction."

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