Bitcoin and Ethereum had a rough week, but derivatives data reveals a silver ...
BTC, ETH and altcoin prices were crushed this week, but the futures funding rate shows retail traders are not ready to become permabears. This week the crypto market endured a sharp drop in valuation after Coinbase, the leading U.S. exchange, reported a $430 million quarterly net loss and South Korea announced plans to introduce a 20% tax on crypto gains.During its worst moment, the total market crypto market cap faced a 39% drop from $1.81 trillion to $1.10 trillion in seven days, which is an impressive correction even for a volatile asset class. A similar size decrease in valuation was....
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Here’s what we are looking to trade for the first part of today’s session in the bitcoin price. It’s been a rough weekend for the bitcoin price. At the end of last week, we noted that there was a potentially large moving coming up, based on the consolidatory action we had seen throughout the latter half of the week. We hoped (from a long term holding perspective) that it would be to the upside – towards the 500 flat level that has proved so elusive over the last couple of months. We did get the movement we expected, though unfortunately the move came to the downside. There’s a silver....
The cryptocurrency derivatives market will continue to flourish in 2021 despite the regulatory crackdown on the sub-ecosystem. The cryptocurrency market has successfully rebounded from the two-month slump it had gone into from late May to the end of July. Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) have been leading the charge, posting impressive gains over the last two weeks. The market is seeing price levels that it had reached back in May of this year.Along with the price gains, the cryptocurrency derivatives market that includes financial instruments like futures, options and even micro futures....
Ethereum's EIP-1559 upgrade is fast approaching, but derivatives data shows traders are less than optimistic about ETH's short-term prospects. Derivatives data shows that Ether (ETH) traders are feeling less bullish when compared to Bitcoin (BTC). Even though the altcoin captured a nearly 200% gain in the first half of 2021 versus Bitcoin's modest 22% price increase, traders seem to be more affected by Ether's recent underperformance.Institutional flow also backs the decreased optimism seen in Ether derivatives, as ETH investment vehicles suffered record outflows this past week while....
Bitcoin is well above its former record, thanks in part to the digital gold narrative taking hold in 2020 with institutional investors. But as those who get into cryptocurrencies consider diversifying beyond BTC, one entrepreneur and crypto trader says that Ethereum is the digital version of silver, not Litecoin as it has long been called. […]