{"id":229565,"date":"2026-09-19T14:19:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T14:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=229565"},"modified":"2026-09-19T14:19:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T14:19:54","slug":"bitcoin-traders-pile-into-calls-as-100b-derivatives-bet-builds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=229565","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Traders Pile Into Calls as $100B Derivatives Bet Builds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin derivatives traders are carrying more than $56 billion in futures exposure and roughly $42 billion in options open interest, while bitcoin sits near $81,273. The stranger part is where the options money is leaning. Market data shows that calls control 60.74% of open interest, the biggest contracts cluster around September strikes from $70,000 to [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin derivatives traders are carrying more than $56 billion in futures exposure and roughly $42 billion in options open interest, while bitcoin sits near $81,273. The stranger part is where the options money is leaning. Market data shows that calls control 60.74% of open interest, the biggest contracts cluster around September strikes from $70,000 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":229566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229565"}],"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=229565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/229566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}