Bitcoin Options Open Interest tops $14B as ProShares ETF Goes Live

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Investor interest in the bitcoin options market increased, with the cryptocurrency nearing record highs in the lead approximately Tuesday’s launch of the first-ever U.S.-based bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund (ETF).

Bybt data shows the cumulative dollar value of bitcoin options contracts open on major exchanges rose to $14 billion on Tuesday, hitting the highest point since April. The tally was a hair far from the peak of $14.68 billion reached on March 24.

Open interest, or the number of contracts traded but not squared off with an offsetting position, rose to a six-month high of 229,220 BTC.

Bitcoin reached a record UTC close above $64,000 on Tuesday as the ProShares’ ETF made an excellent launching on the New York Stock Exchange, signing up a trading volume of $1 billion.

Hopes the U.S. would approve a futures-based ETF strengthened late last month after Securities Exchange and Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler reiterated support for the structured product. Since then, bitcoin has actually rallied over 40%, and options open interest has actually increased by 50%.

The pickup in options activity in the days leading up to the SEC’s decision on ETF proposal signifies increased participation by sophisticated investors and market maturity.

“An extremely rare occurrence for Bitcoin is the Event-driven trade, observed as Futures ETF deadlines approached and then approved. Options are a perfect tool to employ in these scenarios,” Deribit Insights tweeted. Deribit is the world’s largest crypto options exchange, accounting for more than 80% of open interest and trading volume in bitcoin and ether options markets.

Options are acquired agreements that provide the buyer the right, however not the commitment to purchase or offer the hidden property at a fixed cost on or prior to a particular date. A call option gives the right to buy and the put option gives the right to sell. A call buyer is implicitly bullish on the market, while a put buyer is bearish.

Seasoned traders typically utilize both calls and options when the result of a binary occasion doubts, however a huge relocation in either instructions is anticipated. However, flows have been predominantly bullish ahead of the ProShares’ ETF listing, with traders piling into out-of-the-money or higher strike call options, as blockchain data analytics firm Glassnode mentioned in its weekly report published Monday.

“The favoured options contracts appear to be call options with strike prices above $100,000, with a typical open interest of $250 million to $350 million for call options expiring at the end of the year. The open interest in call options dwarfs that in put options, aligning with the overall bullish market sentiment,” Glassnode said.

Over-the-counter tech platform Paradigm recently registered constant purchasing of topside calls and call spread methods at strikes in between $70,000 to $120,000. Trades facilitated by Paradigm are automatically executed, margined and cleared at Deribit.

The ProShares Bitcoin Strategy Fund saw a trading volume of $1 billion on Tuesday, ending up being the second-most greatly traded brand-new ETF on record, according to Bloomberg information.

“Volumes were pretty much right on the screws where the “ETF Nerds” had been predicting – about $1 billion,” David Nadig, chief investment officer and director of research of ETF Trends, said in a Twitter response. “The nature of that volume seems to be [coming from] the small lot, implying retail investors, speculators and high-frequency traders rather than large institutional allocations.”

According to Bloomberg analysts, Valkyrie’s futures-based bitcoin ETF may commence trading later this week.

The launch of futures-based ETFs might have a favorable effect on the derivatives market. “CME options are currently a very small part of the whole crypto options market. Perhaps we could see some growth and development in CME options as a result,” QCP Capital stated in its Telegram channel recently.

On Tuesday, the CME accounted for 2.7% of the global bitcoin options open interest of 229,220 BTC.

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