Bitcoin bulls aim to push BTC price to $18,000 and options data outlines clear reasons why. Bitcoin (BTC) price jumped to $17,500 on Jan. 11, driving it to its highest level in three weeks. The price move gave bulls control of the $275 million BTC weekly options expiry on Jan. 13 because bears had placed…
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Derivatives played a major role in the last bull market and it’s highly likely that they will be integral in the market’s evolution in 2023. Futures and options let traders put down only a tiny portion of a trade’s value and bet that prices will go up or down to a certain point within a…
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Microsoft, the software and computing behemoth, is seeking to adapt part of its software service stack to the metaverse. Ihsan Anabtawi, CMO of Microsoft UAE, declared that the company was working to make its cloud division compatible with metaverse experiences, and to allow companies to use the data obtained as resources for their specific applications.…
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Professional investors are warming to Ethereum again as ETH-based funds see a third consecutive week of inflows. Ether (ETH) prices may have dipped again on Wednesday, but there are signs that professional investors are warming to the asset as the highly anticipated Merge draws closer. In its digital asset fund flows weekly report, fund manager…
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Retail and institutional investors love derivatives instruments. Here‘s how they could impact crypto markets in 2022. We‘ve all heard stories of billion-dollar future contracts liquidations being the cause of 25% intraday price crashes in Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) but the truth is, the industry has been plagued by 100x leverage instruments since BitMEX launched…
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One of the biggest asset managers in Brazil, Kinea, disclosed it made an exploratory investment in Ethereum. The announcement was made by Marco Aurélio Freire, manager of funds for Kinea, who stated the company had invested a small amount of its holdings in ethereum starting two months ago. Kinea, the investment arm of Banco Itau,…
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According to JPMorgan this week’s rally has been driven by institutional investors hedging against inflation with Bitcoin. Bitcoin (BTC) has led a 35% rally this week by soaring far above the $50,000 resistance level and restoring a $1 trillion market capitalization to the asset. According to a note shared by JPMorgan with clients on Thursday,…
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Bitcoin traders say $43,600 needs to be regained to restore the bullish uptrend, but BTC futures and options data are showing signs of distress. “Don’t fight the trend” is an old saying in the markets, and there are other variants of the phrase like “never catch a falling knife.” The bottom line is that traders…
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A Bitcoin ETF approval will open the door for more conservative investors, and this could have an irreversible impact on the price of BTC. Some financial experts believe that the price of cryptocurrencies is solely driven by investors’ speculation, and in the past few years, detractors have suggested that fixed income instruments like Treasury bills…
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Since making its first investment in October, Polychain Capital is now the 10th-largest holder of YFI. Institutional money appears to be flowing into the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector, with Yearn Finance (YFI) among the top beneficiaries. According to crypto market data aggregator IntoTheBlock, on-chain transactions of $100,000 or higher have increased by 282% over the…
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