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A 2-basis-point retreat in the 10-year Treasury yield eased pressure, while Friday's options expiry puts the $85,000 call strike in focus.
The Fed's Wednesday decision lands just two days before Friday's expiry of about 1.47 million IBIT options contracts, with 37% of open interest clustered in a $40-to-$45 strike band that maps to…
The options expiry split derivatives positioning: BTC options stayed call-heavy, while ETH traders turned more defensive as post-settlement volatility remained limited.
Most of the $6.4B in open interest was written against a sub-$70K backdrop before the 20% rally, so the post-expiry positioning distribution is what traders will read next.
The $69,000 max-pain level is a positioning reference, not a price floor, while Fed expectations add a second source of volatility around settlement.
The expiry's key question is whether dealer hedging pins Bitcoin near $75K-$80K or reinforces a break. The 0.83 put-to-call ratio is an inventory measure, not a standalone directional signal.
Call-heavy positioning points to a bullish bias, while clustered strikes make Friday's response a test of gamma hedging rather than a simple directional bet.
Deribit just settled $9.6B in monthly options, leaving Bitcoin's next downside magnet at the $60,000 strike, less than 5% below the weekend's open, with ETF flows sidelined until Monday.
The 149,000 BTC contracts and 435,000 ETH contracts clearing today carry a combined notional near $10.5B, with both assets showing call-heavy positioning that signals traders are paying up for…
The expiry removed too little open interest to move price on its own; the lift came from five straight ETF inflow sessions and 66,700 BTC of whale accumulation, though a $2.3B stablecoin drain keeps…
BTC saw the heavier expiry at $1.9B notional, but ETH's put-call ratio above 1 signals hedgers leaning defensive into the print.
A $1B liquidation flush has cleared leverage and the June 26 expiry removes a $10B+ positioning overhang, but the next 72 hours trade without ETF liquidity, so native flows alone decide whether $58K…
Weak quarterly expiry volumes and a put-call ratio below 1 on both legs leave the structural read unchanged: desks are hedging, not chasing, while persistent spot ETF and Strategy selling pressure…
The max-pain magnet at $72K didn't pull: ~80% of $10.6B in notional expired worthless, confirming spot flow, not the options book, is driving BTC price into the next leg.
Spot ETFs shed $469M in a single session while 80% of quarterly open interest sits out of the money, leaving the market pinned below the gamma flip at $68K–$70K.
A 162,000 BTC notional expiry lands Friday at 08:00 UTC, and the $72K max-pain level with a 0.81 put/call ratio is the magnet dealers will defend into settlement.
Roughly $10B in BTC options notional expires on Deribit Friday, with most of the pain concentrated on the bullish side as spot continues to bleed.
The popular theory that spot gravitates to the strike where options buyers lose the most is failing in real time, with BTC stuck near $61,700 against a $72,000 max pain target on Friday's record…
Wintermute's OTC desk sees BTC grinding toward its bear-market low while options markets price a tight 1.9% daily move, with three catalysts, PCE, Iran headlines, and a quarter-end options expiry,…
Spot BTC ETFs just printed a record $6B 30-day outflow, and a $10.6B options expiry on Friday puts the $60,000 floor in front of the entire market.
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