Following Crash, Bitcoin Open Interest Declines To Sept 2021 Levels
Following the crash to $35k, the Bitcoin open interest has declined to September 2021 levels. This may suggest that the market volatility will be lesser in the near future. Bitcoin Open Interest Drops To Similar Levels As In September 2021 As pointed out by an analyst in a CryptoQuant post, the BTC open interest has decreased to similar levels as last September following the crash. The “open interest” is an indicator that measures the total amount of Bitcoin futures contracts currently open in the derivatives market. The metric accounts for both long and short positions. When....
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The Bitcoin crash of last week was a brutal one for the market. It saw the digital asset lose its footing from where it had been trending just below $30,000 to crash to the mid $17,000s before a recovery had begun. With the new week, the market had started to emerge into the green. But as bitcoin struggles to hold above $20,000, the question remains what had triggered such a crash. A Short Squeeze The bitcoin open interest in perps had been up over the last couple of weeks. This has continued to be the case through the market crash and the subsequent recovery. However, the open interest....
Institutional investors had FOMO’d into bitcoin with the release of the first Bitcoin ETF. This enthusiasm quickly died down the week following the approval as trade volumes plummeted. The record opening was quickly replaced by lackluster momentum that saw institutional investors pull out of the market, likely owing to the asset touching a new all-time high and traders taking gains. institutional Bitcoin open interest had skyrocketed with the price, signaling the entrance of big money into the market. The run-up had lasted until the very end of October. Open Interest saw its peak on....
Bitcoin NUPL indicator has sharply dropped in value recently, a trend that may signal the start of the early bear market period. After The Crash, Bitcoin NUPL Value Has Declined To 32.5% According to the latest weekly report from Glassnode, the BTC NUPL’s recent trend may suggest that the early bear market is now beginning. The “Net Unrealized Profit and Loss” (or NUPL in short) is an on-chain indicator that measures the difference between the relative unrealized profit and the relative unrealized loss. NUPL = (Market Cap – Realized Cap) / Market Cap In simpler....
Bitcoin has recorded significant losses in just the first week of December. The digital asset has taken some of the largest hits for the year in just last week alone following liquidations over the weekend. This has expectedly had a huge impact on the amount of open interest in bitcoin. Following the dump, BTC denominated open interest took a nosedive. The dip in open interest was significant enough to near-record levels for 2021. With bitcoin losing more than $10,000 in value, open interest had declined rapidly. This is worrying given that open interest had dropped not too long ago and....
Ethereum has seen more interest in recent days. Most of it has come from the price decline of the digital asset which has allowed investors to get in at a much lower price. This interest can be easily seen in the rise of the Ethereum-denominated open interest. In the last week, this has risen dramatically. […]