According to @QCompounding, Seth Klarman’s maxim that when sellers must unload at ridiculous prices it can be a good time to buy highlights the opportunity created by forced selling, source: Compounding Quality on X, Dec 2, 2025. In crypto, forced selling typically clusters around derivatives liquidations and margin-driven exits, identifiable via sudden spikes in forced liquidations and sharp open-interest drawdowns, source: CME Group education on margin and liquidation; Kaiko Research derivatives market updates 2023–2024. Traders monitor funding-rate resets and futures basis compression in BTC and ETH during liquidation cascades as positioning stress signals for potential mean-reversion setups, source: Binance Research reports on funding and basis dynamics 2023–2024. Dislocations such as large discounts to NAV in crypto trusts or closed-end funds (for example, GBTC’s discount before ETF conversion) reflect structural selling pressure and can create arbitrageable windows until mechanisms normalize, source: Grayscale GBTC 2023 shareholder communications; CFA Institute coverage of closed-end fund discounts. Spot BTC ETF primary market redemptions and outsized outflows can transmit sell pressure to underlying BTC via AP hedging and basket exchanges, making flow shock days key watchpoints, source: iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) prospectus and capital markets materials. Court-supervised disposals in crypto bankruptcies can create concentrated supply events; tracking court dockets and estate wallets helps quantify overhang and absorption timing, source: U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware filings in major crypto cases 2022–2024; Arkham Intelligence on-chain monitoring.