Peak fear? Bitcoin futures leverage gets reset by this week's wild price swings
Bitcoin futures leverage is dropping steeply, indicating that traders are fearful or uncertain about the BTC price trend. The leverage used in the Bitcoin (BTC) futures market has fallen significantly in the past several days. This indicates that traders are generally uncertain about where BTC is heading in the near term.Estimated leverage on Binance. Source: CryptoQuantWhat is leverage and why is this metric crucial for Bitcoin market sentiment?In the Bitcoin futures market, traders can borrow up to 125 times of their initial capital to trade Bitcoin.This allows traders to enter into....
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The funding rate of Bitcoin dropped to a level unseen since September 2020, signaling fear in the market. The funding rate of Bitcoin (BTC) has dropped to levels not seen since September 2020 as the price of Bitcoin plummeted below $52,000 on April 18. Quant trader and analyst Lex Moskovski says it shows fear has returned to the market.According to the data from Glassnode, the average Bitcoin futures funding rate across all exchange dropped to as low as around -0.03% on SundayWhat is funding rate and why does it dropping matter?Bitcoin futures exchanges use a mechanism called "funding" to....
Nearly $1 billion worth of Bitcoin futures contracts have been wiped out once again. Nearly $1 billion worth of Bitcoin (BTC) futures contracts were liquidated on Jan. 13, a day after the big shakeout. The continuous loop of liquidations is causing extreme volatility and large price swings in the cryptocurrency market.Total Bitcoin liquidations. Source: Bybt.comWhat are futures liquidations, and why are so many Bitcoin positions being liquidated?In the Bitcoin futures market, traders borrow additional capital to bet against or for Bitcoin. The technical term for this is leverage, and when....
Markets were on a rollercoaster last week, with wild swings of hundreds of points on major indices. The Wall Street Journal even fired up a liveblog to provide minute-by-minute commentary on the unfolding turmoil. Amazingly, I'm not talking about the bitcoin markets. Instead, US equity markets ended their most volatile trading week in years, with the benchmark Dow Jones Industrial Average down as much as 207 points on Friday and Brent crude oil falling below the $80 a barrel mark. Bitcoin trading was languid by comparison. The price according to the CoinDesk BPI began the week at $375.80....
Data shows the Bitcoin fear and greed index has now reached the highest level since the peak in November as the price of the crypto rallies up. Bitcoin Fear And Greed Index Now Points At “Greed” As per the latest weekly report from Arcane Research, the BTC fear and greed index has surged to values of greed sentiment this week. The “fear and greed index” is an indicator that tells us about the current general market sentiment among Bitcoin investors. The metric uses a numeric scale that travels from one to hundred for representing this sentiment. All values above....