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The document surveys ways to trade rising markets, including covered calls, bull call spreads, bullish flag patterns, pivot points, and momentum confirmation with RSI and MACD. It also mentions a strap option as a strategy with a bullish tilt and some…
Open interest is the count of outstanding, unsettled derivatives contracts. The article explains how it changes: opening a new contract adds to the total, closing one reduces it, and transferring a position leaves it unchanged. It presents open interest as a…
This guide defines an option strike as the fixed price at which the holder may buy or sell the underlying asset, and moneyness as the relationship between that strike and the current market price. It describes calls and puts as in, at, or out of the money…
The document outlines how speculation and bullish or bearish sentiment can affect cryptocurrency derivatives activity. It identifies options, futures, and perpetual contracts as instruments traders use to gain exposure without owning the underlying asset,…
This dated market commentary reviews BTC and ETH futures yields, perpetual swap funding, and options volatility. It reports falling annualized futures yields as BTC again failed to clear range highs, with ETH’s previously inverted yield curve having…
The article attributes Ethereum’s reported price momentum to several factors: inflows into exchange-traded funds, technical indicators, staking and exchange supply, Ethereum’s role in DeFi and Web3, and wider market conditions. It identifies MACD, RSI, and…
The document explains how Bitcoin and Ether options expiries can reflect trader positioning and coincide with changes in crypto market activity. It describes options as contracts granting the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell at a preset price,…
The document explains how Bitcoin and Ethereum options expiries may influence prices and volatility. It introduces max pain as the strike level where the greatest number of options expire worthless, and describes how traders may watch it alongside the…
The document describes an institutional arrangement in which a digital asset manager can trade around the clock on a platform while a separate custodian holds its assets in segregated custody and cold storage. A mirroring and off-exchange settlement setup is…
The document summarizes four crypto trading products offered to eligible OKX Singapore users who complete a suitability quiz. It distinguishes spot margin, which borrows funds to enlarge a spot position, from perpetual swaps, which provide long or short…
This weekly market note describes how a prolonged period of sideways spot trading coincided with changes in crypto derivatives. It reports that futures yields fell to their lowest levels of the year so far and that BTC funding remained below its mid-January…
The document introduces cryptocurrency options expiry and explains how traders use options to hedge exposure or speculate. It highlights several concepts for monitoring around expiry: max pain estimates, put-to-call ratios, implied volatility, risk…
The document surveys ways to take bearish positions in Bitcoin and Ethereum: borrowing and selling the assets, using margin, selling futures, buying put options, and placing event-based bets in prediction markets. It explains that leverage magnifies both…
This weekly commentary reviews Bitcoin and Ether derivatives conditions after the Federal Reserve cut rates on September 18, 2024. It reports that spot prices and derivatives sentiment improved, while futures implied yields shifted from an inverted term…
This dated market note interprets options and perpetual swap indicators for Bitcoin and Ether. It reports that, despite slower spot price movement, options risk reversals had shifted toward out-of-the-money calls, with positive call skew across tenors. It…
This weekly market note interprets crypto derivatives positioning through futures-implied yields, perpetual swap funding, options implied volatility, and 25-delta risk reversals. It reports an inverted futures yield term structure with a sharp rise at the…
The document frames Ethereum’s rally as a mix of speculative futures positioning, institutional activity, stablecoin liquidity, regulatory expectations, seasonal patterns, options hedging, and geopolitical events. It warns that leveraged futures can amplify…
The document describes spot Ethereum exchange-traded funds as a regulated route to ETH price exposure without directly holding tokens or managing a crypto wallet. It reviews the reported U.S. approval in July 2024, notes that these products exclude staking,…
This guide surveys several inputs for interpreting Bitcoin market conditions. It describes the short-term holder cost basis as the average acquisition price of recent holders and suggests that deviation bands around it may act as dynamic support or…
The announcement describes a regulated retail crypto derivatives pilot in the United Arab Emirates under the Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority framework. It says eligible customers can trade futures, perpetual contracts, and options, with leverage up to…
The document explains that leveraged crypto exchange-traded funds seek amplified daily returns on assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum by using derivatives, including futures, swaps, and options. Their leverage resets each day, so multi-day results can…
The document introduces common cryptocurrency transaction types and explains how exposure differs across them. Spot trading involves buying or selling the underlying asset without borrowing. Margin trading uses borrowed funds to increase position size,…
The document surveys Ethereum derivatives activity and wider factors that may influence ETH markets. It cites a snapshot of options expiries, ETH contract counts, a put-call ratio of 0.52, and a stated maximum-pain level of $2,200. It interprets the ratio…
The document introduces Bitcoin options as contracts conferring the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell BTC at a specified strike by or on expiry. It surveys several topics traders may monitor: max pain levels, put-to-call ratios, volatility around…