Around 29,500 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, September 12, and they have a notional value of roughly $3.4 billion.<\/p>\n
This expiry event is pretty much identical to last week\u2019s<\/a>, so there is unlikely to be any impact on spot markets, which have reclaimed $4 trillion total capitalization again.<\/p>\n US inflation data<\/a> showed that the Consumer Price Index rose 2.9% in August from a year earlier, matching forecasts that prices and inflation would pick up slightly.<\/p>\n This week\u2019s batch of Bitcoin options contracts has a put\/call ratio of 1.3, meaning that there are more short contracts expiring than longs, as bearish speculation increases.<\/p>\n Open interest (OI), or the value or number of BTC options contracts yet to expire, is highest at $140,000, which has reached $2.7 billion at this strike price on Deribit. There is also around $1.8 billion OI at $120,000, but $95,000 is a popular strike price for short sellers with $1.9 billion in OI.<\/p>\n Additionally, total Bitcoin futures OI currently stands at $86.6 billion, which has climbed back toward all-time highs, according<\/a> to CoinGlass.<\/p>\n \u201cDespite the imminent Federal Reserve interest rate decision next week, implied volatility in the options market remains relatively stable, even showing a slight decline,\u201d observed crypto derivatives provider Greeks Live on Thursday.<\/p>\n \u201cThe options market is pricing in relatively low future volatility, with a consensus that a 25-basis-point rate cut has already been factored in.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite the imminent Federal Reserve interest rate decision next week, implied volatility in the options market remains relatively stable, even showing a slight decline. The options market is pricing in relatively low future volatility, with a consensus that a 25-basis-point rate\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/PqQJy3XmZV<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Greeks.live (@GreeksLive) September 11, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n In addition to today\u2019s batch of Bitcoin options, there are around 190,000 Ethereum contracts that are also expiring, with a notional value of $858 million, and a put\/call ratio of 1.0. This brings Friday\u2019s combined crypto options expiry notional value to around $4.25 billion.<\/p>\n Crypto market capitalization has ticked up this Monday morning in Asia, hitting $4.11 trillion, its highest level since August 23.<\/p>\n Bitcoin is back in the driving seat, spiking to a three-week high of $116,300 during the Friday morning Asian trading session before retreating to $115,500 at the time of writing.<\/p>\n Ethereum is up 3.2% on the day, hitting a two-week high of $4,530 on Friday morning. ETH has remained rangebound for the past month, holding steadily above $4,250 for most of the time.<\/p>\n Altcoin momentum<\/a> has continued today with solid gains for Solana, Dogecoin, Chainlink, and the rest generally in the green.<\/p>\n The post How Will Today\u2019s $3.4B Bitcoin Options Expiry Impact Markets?<\/a> appeared first on CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Around 29,500 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, September 12, and they have a notional value of roughly $3.4 billion. This expiry event is pretty much identical to last week\u2019s, so there is unlikely to be any impact on spot markets, which have reclaimed $4 trillion total capitalization again. US inflation data showed that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":95942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95941"}],"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=95941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/95942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Bitcoin Options Expiry<\/h2>\n
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