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Monero price drops from $560 — Can XMR defend $490-$500?

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Monero price [$XMR] is back near a key level, and it looks like a few hands are trembling.

Things are about to get interesting.

Monero price goes back to $500

The past few weeks have been quite entertaining for the privacy coin, but we’re watching things slow down right now. At the time of writing, $XMR was near the $500 mark, after it pulled back from the latest high of $560.

On the daily chart, it seems like buyers are no longer pushing price higher with the same vigour as before. RSI fell to a near-neutral 53 after spending time at much stronger levels. MACD is also weaker, and the histogram fell further into red areas.

Source: TradingView

Sellers are clearly starting to have more say.

In addition, Aggregated Open Interest was at about $151 million at press time. This is also a concerning drop from the higher numbers earlier this week; traders are closing positions and not buying.

Source: Coinalyze

Funding is still positive, though, so more traders leaning long than short.

And that, brings us to the liquidation heatmap.

A key level to decide what comes next

There’s a clear pocket of liquidity at $490-$500, just below where $XMR was trading. If Monero price drops to that band, leveraged long positions could start getting wiped out. This would basically add more pressure to sell.

Source: Coinglass

Does that mean $XMR is headed for a big crash? Not quite. But with the Monero price already at a slower pace and OI falling, traders would be right to be wary.

If buyers defend the zone, $XMR could steady itself. If they don’t, the move lower could get steep quite quickly.


Final Summary

  • Monero price is back near $500; pace has slowed, and open interest has fallen too.
  • $490-$500 is an important level that could decide whether $XMR stabilises or sees a bigger drop.