Bitcoin Options Volume on CME Jumps 300% as Traders Take Bullish Bets

A number of options traders are betting that bitcoin prices will tap $80,000 by May 2021. Meanwhile, over 100,000 bitcoin options worth more than $6 billion are set to expire on Friday, smashing the previous record expiry seen in January. $6 Billion in Bitcoin Options Set to Drop, April Bets Target $80,000 per Bitcoin Today on March 26, 2021, the crypto ecosystem is about to witness one of the largest options expiries to-date as more than 100k bitcoin options will expire. Today’s $6 billion worth of expiries exceeds the last record back in January when $4 billion worth of bitcoin....

The Long Condor options strategy allows traders to place bullish bets without taking on liquidation risks. Long-dated Bitcoin options and bulls still make waves with their ultra bullish bets, but even they must admit that the possibility of (BTC) trading above $60,000 in the next couple of months is dim. Many traders have added leveraged-long positions via futures contracts to chase after the elusive all-time high, but this seems like an unrealistic outcome. According to Willy Woo, a popular on-chain analyst, exchange outflows and accumulation from BTC miners and whales suggest that....

Data show pro traders are still bullish even as Bitcoin price dips below $30,000 and Friday’s $4 billion BTC options expiry approaches. In the last 24-hours Bitcoin (BTC) price dropped 10% today to test the $30,000 support. This drop below what traders have described as a ‘key’ support occurred just two days ahead of this month’s futures and options expiry. Despite the record-high $4 billion options expiry being just two days away, both bull and bear sides traded similar sizes today.Unlike futures contracts, options are divided into two segments. Call (buy) options allow the buyer to....

With the help of the Bored Ape Yacht Club’s Otherside land sale, non-fungible token (NFT) sales have increased a great deal this week. NFT sales increased 74.77% during the last seven days, capturing $1.71 billion in sales volume among 266,918 traders. 7-Day NFT Sales Volume Jumps 74% to $1.71 Billion, Otherdeed NFT Collection Captures $787 Million in Global Sales NFTs have done well this week as far as sales are concerned, and across 1,075,588 transactions during the last seven days, $1.71 billion in sales volume has been recorded. The sales volume is 74.77% higher than....

Ethereum options traders are placing big bets on an ETH rally in June as EIP-1559 approaches. The price of Ether (ETH) is continuing to rally, reaching $2,000 on Friday on the back of strong technical momentum following a high-profile announcement from Visa.As Cointelegraph previously reported on Sunday, Visa will allow its partners to use USD Coin (USDC) on the Ethereum blockchain network to settle transactions.ETH futures total open interest. Source: Bybt.comSince then, the interest in Ethereum across both futures and options markets is seeing an uptick, with the former approaching $7....