Is The VIX Volatility Index Forecasting A Major Bitcoin Crash?
Bitcoin price is consolidating just below $20,000. As the last confrontation with $10,000 has shown, consolidation below resistance is typically a bullish event. However, with such strong resistance above, the uncertainty surrounding the pandemic, the coming vaccine, and the change of power happening in the United States, there’s a recipe for rejection as well. And […]
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Bitcoin derivatives exchange BitMEX has announced that from 5th January they will publish a 30 day bitcoin volatility index, measuring the cryptocurrency's volatility against the United States dollar, and that they will create a tradable financial instrument based on the index. Often known colloquially as a 'fear index', a volatility index provides a measure of how much the value of a currency or asset is fluctuating up and down during a given period of time. A similar index called the VIX is often used by stock market traders to gauge and hedge against risk, as well as for other trading....
As Coti ramps up efforts to bring a decentralized fear index to crypto, it has enlisted the help of Professor Dan Galai, one of the pioneering brains behind the Cboe Market Volatility Index (VIX), to help the organization develop a crypto-oriented version. VIX Co-Creator to Join Coti-Backed Volatility Project Since exchanges for cryptocurrencies first arose, the market and accompanying price action have proven to be among the most volatile around. Intraday swings of double-digit percentage rates are regular occurrences. While it might seem like outsized volatility given the market’s....
Bitcoin has now seen declining prices following the El Salvador Bitcoin law. The flash crash that had cleared at least $400 billion off the crypto total market cap has left lingering effects on the price of the digital asset. The price had plunged from $50,000 to $42,000 in less than an hour, leading to an 18% loss in about 30 minutes. While bitcoin has since recovered from its lows from the crash, the asset has not been able to recover to previous levels before the crash. Though the crash had affected most of the market, mid-cap coins have recovered the most from this. The Mid Caps Index....
Historical data of the Bitcoin volatility index hints that the price of the crypto may observe a big move in the near future. Bitcoin Volatility Index Has Recently Been Below A Value Of 25 As pointed out by an economist on Twitter, the volatility index has declined into a zone that has historically been followed by an explosive move in BTC. The “volatility index” in question is the BitMEX .BVOL index, and according to the exchange, the metric’s value “is the rolling 30 day annualized volatility of the daily 11:30 UTC to 12:00 UTC Time Weighted Average Price (TWAP)....
Derivatives exchange BitMEX will publish an index on 5th January that it hopes will become the bitcoin world's version of the VIX- the so-called 'fear index' that is used to gauge uncertainty in the wider financial markets. The 30-Day Bitcoin Historic Volatility Index, as BitMEX is calling it, works by taking the time-weighted average price from Bitfinex's USD/BTC rate. It then calculates bitcoin's annualised volatility over a rolling 30-day period using that data. The result is a measure of bitcoin's realised volatility for that period. True to form as a derivatives exchange, BitMEX has....