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Today on june 26 bitcoin options worth 1 billion will expire with analysts divided on the consequent market impact. The btc options market has heated up in the past year with expiration dates becoming one of the most anticipated events throughout the year. 2 minutes by shaurya malwa on june 26 2020 bitcoin.
Open interest due to how long bitcoin has traded sideways for has reached record highs recently. Massive bitcoin options expiration expected this friday come june 26 2020 60 of all current open interest across the entire cryptocurrency market is set to expire all at once. More from forbes china.
Now bitcoin traders and investors are braced for more than 100 000 bitcoin options totaling 930 million to expire on june 26 nearly 70 of bitcoin s entire open interest. This is considerably higher than previous records and upcoming expiration dates. With the asset price hovering just below 9 300 at the time of this writing this amount exceeds 1 billion in notional value.
It outlines that there are 114 700 btc options contracts set to expire tomorrow june 26th. The largest batch of bitcoin options is set to expire june 26 both options and futures which are called derivatives are reaching a new all time high on the chicago mercantile exchange cme the. Additionally if the bitcoin futures price falls below 5 000 with less than two months until expiration cme will add strikes at 50 point intervals.
Because these june options are within two months of expirations strike increments of 500 and 100 point intervals will have been added near the price of the underlying bitcoin futures. At press time there are 114 700 option contracts notional value of over 1 billion set to expire on june 26 across major exchanges deribit cme bakkt okex ledgerx according to data. The price levels traders buy at are called strikes and these strikes expire some months after the bet is placed.
A call option means you have the option to purchase an asset while a put option gives you the right to sell it.
Bitcoin options expiration time. In bitcoin as in other markets options are a financial derivative which give traders the option but not the obligation to purchase an asset at a pre specified price at a later date typically traders pay a premium for this privilege.
In bitcoin as in other markets options are a financial derivative which give traders the option but not the obligation to purchase an asset at a pre specified price at a later date typically traders pay a premium for this privilege.
