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This market commentary tracks Bitcoin options activity after the spot ETF approval and launch. Initial buying targeted January calls and February–March call spreads, but flows later shifted toward January puts and call unwinds across several expiries. The…

This podcast synopsis connects foreign-exchange moves with the outlook for crypto prices. One speaker argues that weakness in Asian currencies could increase pressure on the Federal Reserve to adopt a more dovish stance than interest-rate markets expect. The…

This market commentary describes a post-holiday surge in Bitcoin spot and call buying as price moved through a resistance area. It cites activity in near-dated calls, longer-dated calls, and call spreads, and notes that much of the buying arrived during US…

This guide explains how cross collateral lets traders use eligible currencies other than a derivative’s settlement currency to support positions and orders. It distinguishes settlement currencies, collateral currencies, and offset currencies; the latter can…

Deribit describes a platform outage on August 27, 2020, and the steps taken to restore trading. A hardware failure affected the master node that connected the platform’s gateways. Remote access could not restart it, and engineers at the data center were…

This weekly report surveys BTC and ETH derivatives after an ETF-related false alarm. It tracks futures implied yields, perpetual swap funding, option implied volatility, and 25-delta risk reversals. BTC yields briefly rose on ETF speculation before…

This weekly report reviews low implied volatility in BTC and ETH options during summer and discusses trading around a pending spot ETF decision and a Federal Reserve meeting. It describes muted block activity, declining volatility as short-term realized…

This market commentary reads BTC options positioning through changes in near-dated and longer-dated calls. It describes mixed fast-money and fund activity: October calls were added, while risk reversals spanning October strikes were initiated as hedges.…

This weekly commentary interprets BTC and ETH options activity alongside spot price moves. For BTC, the author notes the 60,000 level, a shift in put protection toward the 50,000 strike, and renewed call spread buying. ETH’s move above 2,000 coincides with…

This two-part flow commentary follows Bitcoin and Ether options during a late-September 2022 selloff in US risk assets and a subsequent rebound. It reports demand for BTC puts around nearby strikes, rising put skew, and implied volatility moving above…

The article frames Bitcoin’s outlook around four influences: spot ETF expectations, leveraged futures and options demand, fiat entering through stablecoins, and activity reflected in network fees. It argues that delayed ETF decisions and traders reducing…

This options-flow note describes continued medium-dated volatility buying through call spreads in Bitcoin, with similar trades appearing in Ether. The reported structures buy lower-strike calls and sell higher-strike calls, with delta neutrality maintained…

The article reviews a late-September 2023 crypto options market shaped by fading realized volatility, weak spot momentum, and upcoming macro and ETF catalysts. It connects lower front-end implied volatility with steeper BTC and ETH term structures, while…

This market commentary tracks signs that near-term crypto selling pressure may be easing. It considers Bitcoin’s resilience, falling realized volatility in BTC and ETH, a decline in short-dated implied volatility, and flattening option skew curves. The…

This analysis investigates a sharp weekend crypto sell-off by comparing price moves with large on-chain transfers, cross-asset correlation, network activity, and derivatives volume. Bitcoin fell rapidly and Ether fell further, while prices recovered soon…

This trade note describes a bear call spread for a trader who expects Bitcoin to stay below a chosen level. The structure sells a call and buys another call at a higher strike with the same expiry. The example uses August 16, 2024 calls at $55,000 and…

This note interprets a burst of ETH call buying around the January 17 expiry. It highlights purchases of calls at three nearby strikes, with a reported $150 million notional and $6 million in total premium if the trades came from one buyer. Open interest…

This explainer describes Bitcoin’s halving schedule, in which the block subsidy is reduced by half every 210,000 blocks, roughly every four years. It connects the schedule to the gradual reduction in newly issued BTC and explains the 21 million supply cap as…

This market commentary examines BTC and ETH price action, realized and implied volatility, term structures, skew, option flows, and dealer gamma positioning. It interprets the steepening volatility curves as a preference for longer-dated vega exposure over…

This weekly report compares BTC and ETH market signals using perpetual swap funding, futures implied yields, options volatility, and put-call skew. It describes a brief rise in ETH funding after Ether reclaimed $3,000, alongside futures pricing that…

This weekly market commentary describes how options positioning and volatility changed as Ether approached $2,000 ahead of the planned Merge. It links reduced uncertainty after the Goerli Merge to volatility selling across the curve, while noting that some…

This weekly market report interprets BTC and ETH derivatives indicators alongside recent spot-price moves. It discusses perpetual swap funding, futures-implied yields, at-the-money implied volatility, term structures, and 25-delta risk reversals. The…

This weekly report reviews Bitcoin and Ether derivatives during a period of geopolitical stress and subsequent spot-price recovery. It tracks perpetual swap funding, futures-implied yields, and options measures. Funding briefly turned negative in both…

This weekly market note describes crypto options positioning after global tensions eased and risk assets rallied. It reports that Bitcoin rebounded from the lows, prompting traders to unwind protective puts below $60,000 in April and May expiries. Call…