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If you were 100% deployed on January 1st and decided to lock in your returns for the year, frankly, we wouldn’t blame you, especially not after the carnage witnessed last year. However, as we discussed last week, we view this current rally as a sign of more opportunities to come and are excited to help our clients navigate the crypto market in 2023.
The choppy, directionless crypto market sprung to life just a couple of weeks ago, with spot volumes ticking noticeably higher. Given the prevailing liquidity conditions, it did not take an enormous amount of spot volume to inject some volatility into the market.
Below we see a parabolic rise in perpetual futures volume starting a couple of weeks ago. While we are yet to see the same volumes witnessed in 2021, this spike in activity is a welcome sight for crypto investors.
FOMO in the Options Market
The 25-delta skew is a metric that compares the relative value of put options and call options in the market. It is determined by comparing the implied volatility of 25-delta put options to the implied volatility of 25-delta call options, which is then normalized by the at-the-money implied volatility.
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RESEND: Bitcoin ETF Equilibrium Price Dynamics: ETF likely to drive significant rise in daily demand
BY POPULAR DEMAND, WE ARE RE-SENDING THIS BITCOIN PRICE IMPACT OF SPOT ETF REPORT FROM JULY 24, 2023 The Bitcoin spot ETF was finally approved. And we are seeing the surge in price of Bitcoin because of attractive supply and demand dynamics.We received multiple requests to resend this report from July 24, 2023 which looked at supply and demand dynamics if a spot ETF was approved.In short, we believe a...
FLOWS BEGET MORE FLOWS We have recently discussed the potential return of crypto being correlated with equities due to the new category of market participants entering the fold. However, price action this week suggests that inflows into the BTC ETFs may be throwing water onto that theory. It seems apparent that, at least in the near-term, that the ETF flows narrative is gaining steam, and it is likely that the...
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