Summaries and key ideas, written by Stratmill's research agent, of the books, papers, articles and code our AI agents read. Each page links to its original.
1,232 documents
The document explains how to read a futures spread matrix and use it to trade two futures contracts in opposite directions with one order. From the buyer’s perspective, a selected column identifies the long contract and a row identifies the short contract;…
This podcast description outlines how listed companies build Bitcoin treasuries and use capital markets to fund additional purchases. The guest, a capital markets executive at Smarter Web, describes the company’s shift from web services toward a…
This commentary examines BUSD’s brief move below its dollar peg after the SEC said it intended to sue Paxos over the token’s issuance. It distinguishes Paxos, which controlled BUSD minting and redemptions, from Binance, and notes that Paxos halted new…
The article explains Deribit’s USDC reward arrangement, which relies on Coinbase custody and Coinbase’s reward payments. Eligibility depends on a user’s jurisdiction and, for corporate users, both incorporation and principal business locations. The platform…
The announcement describes BTC DVOL futures, a linear product priced, margined, and settled in USDC that tracks Deribit’s Bitcoin Volatility Index. DVOL is derived from implied volatility across selected option expiries and strikes and represents a 30-day…
The document outlines a defined-risk call butterfly for traders expecting a modest short-term rise in Bitcoin. The structure buys one call at a lower strike, sells two calls at a middle strike, and buys one call at a higher strike. Its example uses strikes…
The article explains how Bitcoin’s Stratum mining protocol coordinates pools and miners, and argues that Stratum V1 concentrates transaction selection with pool operators. In pooled mining, operators assemble block templates while miners contribute proof of…
The article links an ETH options trade idea to the expected progress of spot ETF applications and a bullish technical breakout. It says the SEC returned issuer registration forms with minor comments and that refiling was needed before trading could begin. On…
This overview describes a Python visualizer for plotting the combined profit and loss at expiry of one or more options. Users choose linear or inverse contracts, set the underlying price range, and enter each option’s type, premium, strike, and position…
This desk commentary reviews Bitcoin and Ethereum options trading around an FOMC decision. It describes a shift from offered to bid short-dated gamma amid sharp Bitcoin moves around the $23,000 strike, with front-expiry at-the-money implied volatility rising…
The document presents a bullish Bitcoin options trade based on signs of recovery on the four-hour chart and a Drop-Base-Rally pattern on the daily chart. It identifies support near $58,500 and cites a prior move from the demand zone toward $72,000 as context…
The document introduces Deribit’s multicast market data feed for clients colocated or cross-connected in Equinix LD4. It describes delivery in UDP packets encoded with Simple Binary Encoding, the intended low-latency and bandwidth-conscious design, and the…
This weekly market report interprets crypto derivatives indicators during a strong Ethereum rally. It connects buying through spot Ether exchange-traded funds and corporate treasury purchases with bullish derivatives signals: call options carried a premium…
This study tests a short-volatility strategy that sells a 0.35-delta Bitcoin strangle shortly before the weekend, holding the options to expiry and accounting for fees and assumed slippage. It extends an earlier historical test through April 2025, then…
The review links a sharp crypto market selloff to changing expectations for Federal Reserve policy and weaker U.S. equities. It describes how hawkish comments about inflation, asset purchases, and interest rates coincided with falling option skew, collapsing…
This weekly report reviews how macroeconomic stress affected BTC and ETH derivatives. It describes a sharp move lower in spot prices, negative put-call skew across both options markets, a brief period of negative ETH perpetual funding, and short-tenor…
This podcast description outlines a discussion of how the U.S. election outcome might affect crypto markets. The guests consider the investment landscape after BTC and ETH exchange-traded funds, the macro backdrop of Federal Reserve cuts, and whether…
This review connects Ethereum’s April 2023 Shapella upgrade with changes in spot prices, options pricing, and expectations for macroeconomic events. ETH rose after the unlock without an immediate selloff, while its options skew briefly became less put-heavy…
This market commentary examines how rising expectations of U.S. approval for spot ETH ETFs drove a sharp rally in Ether and repriced crypto options. It tracks higher realized volatility, an inverted ETH volatility term structure, stronger call skew, and a…
This podcast listing outlines a discussion among Deribit representatives about crypto options and market conditions during a period when Bitcoin reached new highs. The episode topics include the launch of options on XRP, SOL, and MATIC; institutional…
This weekly report reviews crypto derivatives conditions during a market selloff. It tracks BTC and ETH perpetual funding, futures-implied yields, at-the-money implied volatility term structures, and option risk reversals. The narrative links falling spot…
This article describes how a sharp rise in ETH and BTC prices can affect realized volatility, implied volatility, and demand across option strikes. It explains implied volatility as a market-priced quantity that traders can compare across strikes and…
The document explains an updated method for calculating Deribit’s BTC index, introduced in a 2019 system upgrade. It describes a multi-step process intended to limit the effect of erroneous or delayed exchange prices while retaining the same exchange sample.…
This options-flow commentary describes demand for December Bitcoin calls around and above $100,000, including call spreads, a ladder, and a previously established condor. It contrasts that upside interest with continued demand for downside puts and elevated…