#USIranStandoff

Geopolitical tension doesn’t move markets by headlines alone.

It moves markets through risk repricing and liquidity shifts.

During US–Iran standoffs, markets typically show:

• Short-term volatility spikes

• Risk-off rotations into $BTC BTC and stablecoins

• Futures funding imbalances and crowded positioning

What matters most is not the news itself, but how traders react to it.

When fear rises:

• Leverage increases in the wrong direction

• Liquidation clusters form faster

• Price seeks liquidity, not logic

Historically, geopolitical stress creates temporary dislocations, not permanent trends.

The real edge comes from monitoring:

• Open interest changes

• Funding rate extremes

• Liquidity gaps around key levels

Markets don’t respond to tension —

they respond to positioning under tension.