$3.4 Billion In Bitcoin Options Expires, Triggering Market Squeeze — Details
Bitcoin’s price action has been grossly dramatic throughout the year. After reaching its current all-time-high price of $126,000 in early October, the world’s leading cryptocurrency saw a rapid flip to the downside. Since reaching its October high, Bitcoin spiraled to as low as $80,500, a more than 15% negative deviation in reviewing year on year […]
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State-of-the-art binary options trading platform OptionsClick is offering one of the highest payout ratios to its clients. The broker, which is licensed and regulated by CySEC, is ensured to offer a fixed return on every winning trade. It typically returns 70-85% upon the predicted - or "in the money" - expiration of an option, while it also returns 0-15% on options that are expired "out of the money." "For example," OptionsClick explains, "an investment of $100 that expires "in the money" will return $170-185 to the investor - that is, the original sum plus $70-85. If the option expires....
The largest-ever Bitcoin options expiry of $6 billion nearly doubles the previous record. The biggest-ever Bitcoin options expiry is due on March 26. Over $6 billion worth of Bitcoin (BTC) options will expire across exchanges on Friday, with a majority of these options being on Deribit. This will be a record expiry in terms of the value and number of options — a total of 100,400 Bitcoin options will expire. The previous record was set in January when nearly $4 billion worth of options expired, representing 36% of the open interest at the time.The enormous upcoming expiry comes on the back....
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