Around 29,000 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, Nov. 22, and they have a notional value of around $2.84 billion. Today’s options expiry is slightly smaller in magnitude than last week’s, but spot crypto markets are on fire, with peak prices being hit by several assets. A huge $9 billion expiry event will occur...Read More
Around 18,800 Bitcoin options contracts will be expiring on Friday, Oct. 11, with a notional value of around $1.1 billion. Today’s options expiry is very similar to last week’s as implied volatility declines, and expiry events are now smaller. Therefore, it is unlikely to impact spot markets, which have been retreating this week. Bitcoin Options...Read More
Approximately 17,400 Bitcoin options contracts are due for expiry on Friday, Oct. 4. These contracts have a notional value of around $1 billion. Today’s options expiry is much smaller than last week’s mammoth end-of-the-month and end-of-the-quarter event, so it is unlikely to impact spot markets, which have been retreating this week. Bitcoin Options Expiry This...Read More
Around 89,000 Bitcoin options contracts are due for expiry on Friday, Sept. 27. These BTC derivatives have a notional value of around $5.8 billion. Today’s options expiry is a whopper due to the end of the month and the end of the third quarter, so it could impact spot markets, which have been on the...Read More
Around 18,400 Bitcoin options contracts are due for expiry on Friday, August 23. They have a notional value of around $1.1 billion. Today’s options expiry event is a little smaller than last week’s, so its impact on spot markets is likely to be limited. The much larger month-end expiry event next week has a notional...Read More
On Friday, August 16, around 24,300 Bitcoin options contracts will expire, with a notional value of around $1.4 billion. Today’s options expiry event is smaller than last week’s, so its impact on spot markets is likely to be limited. The much larger month-end expiry event currently has a notional value of $3.2 billion. Bitcoin Options...Read More
Friday, August 9, will see around 32,000 Bitcoin options contracts expire with a notional value of around $1.9 billion. Today’s options expiry event is slightly smaller than last week’s, so its impact on spot markets is likely to be limited. Crypto Options Expiry This week’s big batch of Bitcoin options has a put/call ratio of...Read More
Friday, August 2, will see around 37,000 Bitcoin options contracts expire with a notional value of around $2.4 billion. The options expiry event is smaller than last week’s end-of-the-month event but a little larger than the average expiry. Bitcoin Options Expiry Today’s tranche of expiring BTC derivatives has a put/call ratio of 0.58, which means there...Read More
Friday, July 12, will see around 23,700 Bitcoin options contracts with a notional value of around $1.49 billion. The options expiry event is of similar magnitude to last week’s which did not have much impact on spot markets. They have been down-trending due to BTC selling pressure from miners, the German government, and Mt. Gox...Read More
Around 18,000 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on July 5 with a notional value of around $1 billion. However, this week’s expiry event is much smaller than the big end-of-quarter contract expiry last Friday. Bitcoin Options Expiry Today’s batch of BTC derivatives has a put/call ratio of 0.65, meaning that almost twice as many long...Read More
This Friday, around 107,000 Bitcoin options contracts will expire, with a notional value of $6.6 billion. Moreover, it is an end-of-month expiry event, which is much larger than usual end-of-week expiries so there may be a little market volatility. Bitcoin Options Expiry Today’s huge tranche of BTC derivatives has a put/call ratio of 0.5, meaning...Read More
The options trading market for cryptocurrencies has witnessed a significant surge, illustrated by the impressive achievement of $15 billion in Bitcoin (BTC) options on Deribit last week. Deribit has firmly established its dominance in the BTC options arena, commanding an impressive 87% market share. This surge, which signifies a significant increase since late September, indicates...Read More
TL;DR Deribit plans to launch linear options for XRP, SOL, and MATIC in January, targeting European markets and doubling down on derivatives trading. Despite its price fluctuations, XRP remains a popular choice for payments, with institutions like HSBC allowing its use. Following its legal victories against the US SEC, XRP might be on the verge...Read More
Crypto exchange Deribit is planning to move its main headquarters to Dubai as soon as the third quarter of this year. The Bloomberg report suggests that the new office will be staffed by a team of 10 people comprising both domestic hires alongside the exchange’s core employees. Roles in management, compliance, and support will be...Read More
BlockchainCom, also a creditor of the crypto-focused hedge fund, reportedly admitted to cooperating with law enforcement agencies for investigations into Three Arrows Capital. Along with Deribit, both companies said they requested the recent liquidation of 3AC. CryptoPotato reported earlier this week the news that a court in the British Virgin Islands ordered Three Arrows Capital...Read More
A lot happened over the past week, as Bitcoin experienced one of its most volatile periods in terms of price and futures trading. While there weren’t any major dips or rallies, the constant change of sentiment may have tested the trader’s resolve and a particular incident reminded the crowd about Bitcoin’s reactive nature. 22nd-29th January:...Read More
Crypto derivatives exchange Deribit just added Bitcoin options with a $300K strike price and December 2021 expiry. And here we go. We thought those 36k options for $BTC were crazy. Oh man build it and they will come right? 👏 https://t.co/zSOofJpQJL — NekoZ (@CryptoNekoZ) January 8, 2021 This move is hugely bullish for Bitcoin, as...Read More
The crypto-derivatives market was largely successful in 2020. While Bitcoin Futures have been in the limelight a lot due to the CME’s growth, Bitcoin Options stole the show with its consistent run throughout the course of 2020. However, its magnification goes beyond the regular interest of traders, with other factors playing a vital role in...Read More
Bitcoin, at the time of writing, was trading well above $19,000 on the charts. However, while that is a bullish observation, a closer look at Bitcoin’s fundamentals would reveal a contradiction of sorts. Curiously, the active supply of Bitcoin has hit both an ATH and an ATL. This contradictory position is possible entirely due to...Read More
The memory of November 2020 will remain in the minds of Bitcoin investors and the collective crypto-industry for a long time. A rally ignited in mid-October finally realized its full potential in the penultimate month of the year, with many of the market’s premier crypto-assets climbing to new highs. While most digital asset sectors pictured...Read More
Bitcoin’s price may be suffering from weekend slumps yet again and it has dropped over 11 percent from the $19,200 level. The market capitalization is down from $581 Billion to $512 Billion and on-chain analysts are comparing the price action in the past week to Gold’s fractal of the 70s. Mark Twain’s comment “history never...Read More
Most crypto-statisticians believe that Bitcoin has begun decoupling from the U.S. stock market index, the S&P 500. In fact, Willy Woo had predicted that Bitcoin would break ties with the traditional market due to a boost in new entrants. Given the impact the correlation between stocks and Bitcoin has had on the crypto-market, the decoupling...Read More
This week saw increased volatility in the crypto market, not only due to the expiry of Bitcoin contracts but also because of the expiry of Ethereum contracts. Nearly 460,000 ETH options are set to expire on Friday that made up for almost $450 million in open interest. This will be the largest expiration date for...Read More
Ethereum Options volume, at the time of writing, had dropped to $4.9M on Deribit, a level last seen back in June 2020. Interestingly, such a drop to uncertain levels has put derivatives traders in previously unchartered territory. In fact, Options volume over the past week matches the level of BTC Options volume from January 2019,...Read More
The start and conclusion of August echoed a similar note for Ethereum; both witnessed the beginning of a bullish rally. In between, the markets were extremely choppy but according to Deribit’s August Institutional Newsletter, the altcoin registered another positive month in terms of derivatives activity. According to the newsletter shared with AMBCrypto, Ethereum’s turnover growth...Read More
The expiry of contracts worth $80M on 28 August 2020 was accompanied by a 3.29% change in Ethereum’s price on spot exchanges. Usually, major expiry events such as this affect the price of Ethereum since they bring about change in liquidity, Open Interest, and Put/Call ratios. However, off-late, the relationship between the expiry of contracts...Read More
Data from the crypto analytical firm Skew.com shows that bitcoin options are maturing much faster than the futures markets launched in December 2017. Skew’s data shows that the open interest in bitcoin options has risen significantly in the last few months. Bitcoin options “are starting to play catch up with the more mature futures market,”...Read More
The recent volatility in the global markets and the cryptocurrency markets has raised most trading volumes. Bitcoin options, for instance, reached a new all-time high yesterday. The futures market also saw a massive jump in the volume, as Binance Futures breaks its all-time high record. Bitcoin Options Volume Soars The past several days have been...Read More
The Bitcoin (BTC) market will have another source of risk – trading in options. The intention of derivative instruments is to hedge the risk for owners, or potential buyers. But trading option positions holds an additional risk of its own. Bitcoin Options Exposure Expected to Grow Next Year Options exposure is growing, as the markets...Read More
Binance enters into the cryptocurrency derivatives market with the acquisition of an exchange based in Seychelles, JEX, which will rebrand to Binance JEX offering options, futures, and perpetual contracts. The crypto industry is growing constantly with new deals and investments dominating the scene over the years. Binance, the world’s largest exchange by trading volume, has...Read More
