Around 30,500 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, June 19, with a notional value of roughly $1.9 billion. This event is slightly smaller than last week\u2019s and still not enough to impact spot markets.<\/p>\n
Crypto markets gained slightly before retreating in the second half of the week, with total capitalization hovering around the $2.25 trillion level and $70 billion leaving the space since Monday.<\/p>\n
A signed peace deal between the US and Iran has not improved sentiment, while the new Federal Reserve Chair, Kevin Warsh, left rates unchanged<\/a> as expected on Wednesday, but hikes could be on the cards if inflation continues to climb.<\/p>\n This week\u2019s batch of Bitcoin options contracts has a put\/call ratio of 0.78, meaning that sellers of long (call) contracts slightly outweigh short (put) contract sellers. Max pain is around $65,000, which is around $2,000 higher than current spot prices, so many will be at a loss on expiry.<\/p>\n Open interest (OI), or the value or number of Bitcoin options contracts yet to expire, remains highest at the $80,000 strike price on Deribit, with $1.6 billion, but short sellers still have $1.3 billion in OI at $60,000. Total BTC options OI across all exchanges has been climbing over the past week, and is at $36 billion, according to Coinglass.<\/p>\n Derivatives provider Greeks Live said<\/a> this week that the $60,000 strike functions as a \u201ccritical threshold.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cA sustained breach below this level would shift dealer hedging flows from stabilizing to directionally reinforcing, increasing the probability of an accelerated move lower,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the $70,000 to $82,000 levels act as a \u201cpositive gamma range\u201d where activity is expected to provide a \u201cnatural dampening effect on volatility.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cA week of grinding calm has gutted the front of the BTC volume surface,\u201d commented derivatives analytics provider Laevitas.<\/p>\n 1\/ Midweek Crypto Derivatives Report A week of grinding calm has gutted the front of the bitcoin:native vol surface. Seven-day ATM IV has fallen from roughly 46 to 36 while the back barely moved near 43; the curve that was inverted a week ago \u2013 a classic fear-front -\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/IGSHaQFna1<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Laevitas (@laevitas1) June 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n In addition to today\u2019s tranche of Bitcoin options, around 137,600 Ethereum contracts are also expiring, with a notional value of $234 million, max pain at $1,725, and a put\/call ratio of 1.0. Total ETH options OI across all exchanges is around $6 billion.<\/p>\n This brings the total crypto options expiry notional value to around $2.1 billion, which is a relatively small expiry event.<\/p>\n Crypto markets are in the red this Friday morning in Asia, with total capitalization tanking 2.4%.\u00a0Bitcoin has fallen from its intraday high of $64,500 to around $62,800 at the time of writing, and another retest of the lows looks likely as momentum wanes.<\/p>\n Ethereum has lost 3% on the day and is about to fall below $1,700 again as it trades near its lowest levels for over a year.\u00a0Altcoins suffering heavier losses include Hyperliquid, Zcash, Sui, and Avalanche.<\/p>\n The post A $2.1B Crypto Expiring Event Is Happening Today \u2013 How Will Markets Move?<\/a> appeared first on CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Around 30,500 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, June 19, with a notional value of roughly $1.9 billion. This event is slightly smaller than last week\u2019s and still not enough to impact spot markets. Crypto markets gained slightly before retreating in the second half of the week, with total capitalization hovering around the $2.25 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Bitcoin Options Expiry<\/h2>\n
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