Crypto-Crash Aftershocks Hit Traders With 50% Premiums Vanishing

Bloomberg2021-06-04

Bitcoin derivatives market signals caution across the board Market excesses ease after last month’s $500 billion wipeout Speculative investors may have been pushing meme stocks “to the moon” earlier ...

网页链接

免责声明：本文观点仅代表作者个人观点，不构成本平台的投资建议，本平台不对文章信息准确性、完整性和及时性做出任何保证，亦不对因使用或信赖文章信息引发的任何损失承担责任。

精彩评论

9199ni
2021-06-04
9199ni
nice
小虎一飞冲天
2021-06-04
小虎一飞冲天
💰
Lucria
2021-06-04
Lucria
LmaoLike and comment thanks!
- TJW1991:
  reply my comment
- noodlesauce:
  reply mine too
- TJW1991回复noodlesauce:
  ok
Milankaka
2021-06-04
Milankaka
Oh
- WendyGoh:
  Ok
- TerranTan:
  Hi
- 7a3b0355:
  Like and comment my comment!
Pixiestars
2021-06-04
Pixiestars
Ok, bubble may burst soon. Can finally catch some then.
股你怕么
2021-06-04
股你怕么
Please like and comment
- Vyy:
  Comment reply Back Pls

发表看法

{"i18n":{"language":"zh_CN"},"isChannel":false,"data":{"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1194001604?lang=zh_CN&edition=full","thumbnail":"","is_english":true,"pubTime":"2021-06-04 10:27","share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","id":"1194001604","market":"us","top_or_hot":-1,"title":"Crypto-Crash Aftershocks Hit Traders With 50% Premiums Vanishing","media":"Bloomberg","content":"<div>\n<p>Bitcoin derivatives market signals caution across the board\nMarket excesses ease after last month’s $500 billion wipeout\n\nSpeculative investors may have been pushing meme stocks “to the moon” earlier ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-03/crypto-crash-aftershocks-hit-traders-with-50-premiums-vanishing?srnd=premium-asia\">网页链接</a>\n\n</div>\n","source":"lsy1584095487587","html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Crypto-Crash Aftershocks Hit Traders With 50% Premiums Vanishing</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nCrypto-Crash Aftershocks Hit Traders With 50% Premiums Vanishing\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-06-04 10:27 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-03/crypto-crash-aftershocks-hit-traders-with-50-premiums-vanishing?srnd=premium-asia><strong>Bloomberg</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Bitcoin derivatives market signals caution across the board\nMarket excesses ease after last month’s $500 billion wipeout\n\nSpeculative investors may have been pushing meme stocks “to the moon” earlier ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-03/crypto-crash-aftershocks-hit-traders-with-50-premiums-vanishing?srnd=premium-asia\">网页链接</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","isBrief":false,"type":0,"news_type":1,"symbol":null,"symbol_name":null,"start_time":0,"source_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-03/crypto-crash-aftershocks-hit-traders-with-50-premiums-vanishing?srnd=premium-asia","article_id":"1194001604","we_media_id":null,"thumbnails":[],"rights":null,"url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1194001604","pubTimestamp":1622773637,"columns":[],"sourceInfo":{"source_id":"lsy1584095487587","name":"Bloomberg"},"weMediaInfo":null,"summary":"Bitcoin derivatives market signals caution across the board\nMarket excesses ease after last month’s ","collect":0,"end_time":0,"defaultTopTitle":"bloomberg.com","property":[],"viewcount":null,"language":"en","relate_stocks":{},"translate_title":"密码危机余震打击交易员，50%的溢价消失","themeId":null,"isJumpTheme":false,"ttsUrl":null,"symbols_score_info":{},"content_text":"Bitcoin derivatives market signals caution across the board\nMarket excesses ease after last month’s $500 billion wipeout\n\nSpeculative investors may have been pushing meme stocks “to the moon” earlier this week, but their crypto counterparts have been coming back down to Earth en masse.\nHedging activity is on the rise and bullish bets are finding limited demand -- even with Bitcoin still almost 40% below its peak. These are rare times of restraint among day traders, who until last month’s $500 billion crash were famously in the throes of bullish mania.\nAnother way of looking at it: A slew of market excesses fueled by leverage are gettingsnuffed out.\n“Price and narrative are the fundamentals in cryptocurrency markets -- right now, both are shaken,” said Nico Cordeiro, chief investment officer at Strix Leviathan, a digital-asset investment firm.\nTake the gap between Bitcoin futures market and the spot price. At the height of the mania in April, the premium shot to 50% on an annualized basis -- meaning investors could lock in a massive profit with a simple convergence trade.\nIt’s now collapsed to just 9%, according to data providerSkew, which tracked rolling three-month contracts on crypto exchange Binance.\n\nVolume in derivatives typically exceeds spot activity on most days, on strong demand to speculate with easy-to-trade instruments that offer leverage -- often 100 times -- to boot. All that means bulls almost always outnumber bears.\nNow, crypto conviction is falling. Support from Bitcoin’s star promoter Elon Musk has wavered and there are new regulatory hurdles in China and the U.S. For the past two weeks, prices have wobbled around $40,000, unable to move much in either direction.\nRetail demand for long positions across the curve is vanishing. The futures-spot spread is narrowing on BitMEX and other crypto platforms to bring it closer to the level on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, an institutionally oriented platform.\nIt all signals harder times for quants like BKCoin Capital who havenotchedoutsize gains with simple arbitrage strategies that involve going short futures and long the spot.\n“In mature, liquid markets, institutional and sophisticated investors search for various arb opportunities,” said Kelly Pettersen, head of business development at Skew, nowacquiredby Coinbase Global Inc. “Applying this same strategy in crypto, over time, means the market and the trade will continue to get more popular, and the spread will narrow.”The basis on Bitcoin futures is narrowing in a sign of tempered optimism\nSource: Skew\nDemand to go long is also falling in a typically lucrative trade known as perpetual futures.\nThe uniquely crypto derivative has no expiry date and is kept in line with the spot price thanks to incentives created by a funding rate. When sentiment was rosy, the charge got as high as 0.3% on the BitMEX platform -- meaning bulls were willing to payup tohold onto a Bitcoin bet for just hours.\nBut over the past two weeks, the rate has been sitting at zero or innegative territory.\nHedging Demand\nWhile traders in the stock market primarily use options for hedging, investors in crypto assets have long preferred to buy them as a way to bet on further gains. For that reason, outstanding calls have always exceeded puts in crypto markets, Skew figures show.\nOpen-interest data show that’s still true. Yet over the past month the cost of one-month puts on Bitcoin has risen above the price of comparable calls -- a sign of rising demand to hedge.\nThat suggests crypto options are looking more like equities where defensive contracts have long commanded a premium over bullish counterparts.\nThe upshot? Caution is building across a Bitcoin ecosystem acutely prone to speculative extremes.","kind":"news","is_publish_news":false,"is_publish_highlight":true,"is_publish_live":false,"is_publish_wemedia":null,"editions":null,"column":"","sentiment":"0","news_tag":"","news_rank":0,"symbols":[],"gpt_button":1},"commentList":[{"id":116818756,"gmtCreate":1622787323175,"gmtModify":1634097994836,"author":{"id":"3583228238671976","authorId":"3583228238671976","name":"9199ni","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8890ad4144b00eff4f6d77481bf1f859","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3583228238671976","authorIdStr":"3583228238671976"},"htmlText":"nice","listText":"nice","text":"nice","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/116818756","repostId":1194001604,"repostType":4,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":116373396,"gmtCreate":1622777349615,"gmtModify":1634098100514,"author":{"id":"3582098623642517","authorId":"3582098623642517","name":"小虎一飞冲天","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1a55a61195830e019abf5d3cc69681b9","vip":1,"crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3582098623642517","authorIdStr":"3582098623642517"},"htmlText":"💰","listText":"💰","text":"💰","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/116373396","repostId":1194001604,"repostType":4,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":116379755,"gmtCreate":1622777343177,"gmtModify":1634098100759,"author":{"id":"3582023952208003","authorId":"3582023952208003","name":"Lucria","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5d807a1638b2770b0e293aafc3d195cf","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3582023952208003","authorIdStr":"3582023952208003"},"htmlText":"LmaoLike and comment thanks!","listText":"LmaoLike and comment thanks!","text":"LmaoLike and comment thanks!","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":3,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/116379755","repostId":1194001604,"repostType":4,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":4574632,"gmtCreate":1622779134850,"gmtModify":1635337575256,"authorId":3578904826776116,"author":{"id":3578904826776116,"idStr":"3578904826776116","authorId":3578904826776116,"name":"TJW1991","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c1d13fbb3feb6459408472fb351d6fe0","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":116379755,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"reply my comment","text":"reply my comment","html":"reply my comment"},{"id":4576266,"gmtCreate":1622787307154,"gmtModify":1635337408467,"authorId":3581496243824466,"author":{"id":3581496243824466,"idStr":"3581496243824466","authorId":3581496243824466,"name":"noodlesauce","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/786aecbfe5fbee60a364a5af7796abb0","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":116379755,"type":1,"supId":4574632,"prevId":0,"content":"reply mine too","text":"reply mine too","html":"reply mine too"},{"id":4580129,"gmtCreate":1622812944351,"gmtModify":1635337101953,"authorId":3578904826776116,"author":{"id":3578904826776116,"idStr":"3578904826776116","authorId":3578904826776116,"name":"TJW1991","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c1d13fbb3feb6459408472fb351d6fe0","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":3581496243824466,"repliedAuthor":{"id":3581496243824466,"idStr":"3581496243824466","authorId":3581496243824466,"name":"noodlesauce","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/786aecbfe5fbee60a364a5af7796abb0","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"objectId":116379755,"type":1,"supId":4574632,"prevId":4576266,"content":"ok","text":"ok","html":"ok"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":116342382,"gmtCreate":1622777055246,"gmtModify":1634098104458,"author":{"id":"3579096500575753","authorId":"3579096500575753","name":"Milankaka","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/288ce834db4366c3536976047323d1ce","vip":1,"crmLevel":7,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3579096500575753","authorIdStr":"3579096500575753"},"htmlText":"Oh&nbsp;","listText":"Oh&nbsp;","text":"Oh","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":3,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/116342382","repostId":1194001604,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1194001604","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1622773637,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1194001604?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-06-04 10:27","market":"hk","language":"en","title":"Crypto-Crash Aftershocks Hit Traders With 50% Premiums Vanishing","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1194001604","media":"Bloomberg","summary":"Bitcoin derivatives market signals caution across the board\nMarket excesses ease after last month’s ","content":"<ul>\n <li>Bitcoin derivatives market signals caution across the board</li>\n <li>Market excesses ease after last month’s $500 billion wipeout</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Speculative investors may have been pushing meme stocks “to the moon” earlier this week, but their crypto counterparts have been coming back down to Earth en masse.</p>\n<p>Hedging activity is on the rise and bullish bets are finding limited demand -- even with Bitcoin still almost 40% below its peak. These are rare times of restraint among day traders, who until last month’s $500 billion crash were famously in the throes of bullish mania.</p>\n<p>Another way of looking at it: A slew of market excesses fueled by leverage are gettingsnuffed out.</p>\n<p>“Price and narrative are the fundamentals in cryptocurrency markets -- right now, both are shaken,” said Nico Cordeiro, chief investment officer at Strix Leviathan, a digital-asset investment firm.</p>\n<p>Take the gap between Bitcoin futures market and the spot price. At the height of the mania in April, the premium shot to 50% on an annualized basis -- meaning investors could lock in a massive profit with a simple convergence trade.</p>\n<p>It’s now collapsed to just 9%, according to data providerSkew, which tracked rolling three-month contracts on crypto exchange Binance.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/28ab06d1be9e363226d42fe6f379300f\" tg-width=\"620\" tg-height=\"348\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Volume in derivatives typically exceeds spot activity on most days, on strong demand to speculate with easy-to-trade instruments that offer leverage -- often 100 times -- to boot. All that means bulls almost always outnumber bears.</p>\n<p>Now, crypto conviction is falling. Support from Bitcoin’s star promoter Elon Musk has wavered and there are new regulatory hurdles in <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CAAS\">China</a> and the U.S. For the past two weeks, prices have wobbled around $40,000, unable to move much in either direction.</p>\n<p>Retail demand for long positions across the curve is vanishing. The futures-spot spread is narrowing on BitMEX and other crypto platforms to bring it closer to the level on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, an institutionally oriented platform.</p>\n<p>It all signals harder times for quants like BKCoin Capital who havenotchedoutsize gains with simple arbitrage strategies that involve going short futures and long the spot.</p>\n<p>“In mature, liquid markets, institutional and sophisticated investors search for various arb opportunities,” said <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/KELYA\">Kelly</a> Pettersen, head of business development at Skew, nowacquiredby Coinbase Global Inc. “Applying this same strategy in crypto, over time, means the market and the trade will continue to get more popular, and the spread will narrow.”<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c474b9cca82618726d3e08afbb6f5881\" tg-width=\"800\" tg-height=\"446\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">The basis on Bitcoin futures is narrowing in a sign of tempered optimism</p>\n<p>Source: Skew</p>\n<p>Demand to go long is also falling in a typically lucrative trade known as perpetual futures.</p>\n<p>The uniquely crypto derivative has no expiry date and is kept in line with the spot price thanks to incentives created by a funding rate. When sentiment was rosy, the charge got as high as 0.3% on the BitMEX platform -- meaning bulls were willing to payup tohold onto a Bitcoin bet for just hours.</p>\n<p>But over the past two weeks, the rate has been sitting at zero or innegative territory.</p>\n<p>Hedging Demand</p>\n<p>While traders in the stock market primarily use options for hedging, investors in crypto assets have long preferred to buy them as a way to bet on further gains. For that reason, outstanding calls have always exceeded puts in crypto markets, Skew figures show.</p>\n<p>Open-interest data show that’s still true. Yet over the past month the cost of <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a>-month puts on Bitcoin has risen above the price of comparable calls -- a sign of rising demand to hedge.</p>\n<p>That suggests crypto options are looking more like equities where defensive contracts have long commanded a premium over bullish counterparts.</p>\n<p>The upshot? Caution is building across a Bitcoin ecosystem acutely prone to speculative extremes.</p>","source":"lsy1584095487587","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Crypto-Crash Aftershocks Hit Traders With 50% Premiums Vanishing</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nCrypto-Crash Aftershocks Hit Traders With 50% Premiums Vanishing\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-06-04 10:27 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-03/crypto-crash-aftershocks-hit-traders-with-50-premiums-vanishing?srnd=premium-asia><strong>Bloomberg</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Bitcoin derivatives market signals caution across the board\nMarket excesses ease after last month’s $500 billion wipeout\n\nSpeculative investors may have been pushing meme stocks “to the moon” earlier ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-03/crypto-crash-aftershocks-hit-traders-with-50-premiums-vanishing?srnd=premium-asia\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-03/crypto-crash-aftershocks-hit-traders-with-50-premiums-vanishing?srnd=premium-asia","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1194001604","content_text":"Bitcoin derivatives market signals caution across the board\nMarket excesses ease after last month’s $500 billion wipeout\n\nSpeculative investors may have been pushing meme stocks “to the moon” earlier this week, but their crypto counterparts have been coming back down to Earth en masse.\nHedging activity is on the rise and bullish bets are finding limited demand -- even with Bitcoin still almost 40% below its peak. These are rare times of restraint among day traders, who until last month’s $500 billion crash were famously in the throes of bullish mania.\nAnother way of looking at it: A slew of market excesses fueled by leverage are gettingsnuffed out.\n“Price and narrative are the fundamentals in cryptocurrency markets -- right now, both are shaken,” said Nico Cordeiro, chief investment officer at Strix Leviathan, a digital-asset investment firm.\nTake the gap between Bitcoin futures market and the spot price. At the height of the mania in April, the premium shot to 50% on an annualized basis -- meaning investors could lock in a massive profit with a simple convergence trade.\nIt’s now collapsed to just 9%, according to data providerSkew, which tracked rolling three-month contracts on crypto exchange Binance.\n\nVolume in derivatives typically exceeds spot activity on most days, on strong demand to speculate with easy-to-trade instruments that offer leverage -- often 100 times -- to boot. All that means bulls almost always outnumber bears.\nNow, crypto conviction is falling. Support from Bitcoin’s star promoter Elon Musk has wavered and there are new regulatory hurdles in China and the U.S. For the past two weeks, prices have wobbled around $40,000, unable to move much in either direction.\nRetail demand for long positions across the curve is vanishing. The futures-spot spread is narrowing on BitMEX and other crypto platforms to bring it closer to the level on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, an institutionally oriented platform.\nIt all signals harder times for quants like BKCoin Capital who havenotchedoutsize gains with simple arbitrage strategies that involve going short futures and long the spot.\n“In mature, liquid markets, institutional and sophisticated investors search for various arb opportunities,” said Kelly Pettersen, head of business development at Skew, nowacquiredby Coinbase Global Inc. “Applying this same strategy in crypto, over time, means the market and the trade will continue to get more popular, and the spread will narrow.”The basis on Bitcoin futures is narrowing in a sign of tempered optimism\nSource: Skew\nDemand to go long is also falling in a typically lucrative trade known as perpetual futures.\nThe uniquely crypto derivative has no expiry date and is kept in line with the spot price thanks to incentives created by a funding rate. When sentiment was rosy, the charge got as high as 0.3% on the BitMEX platform -- meaning bulls were willing to payup tohold onto a Bitcoin bet for just hours.\nBut over the past two weeks, the rate has been sitting at zero or innegative territory.\nHedging Demand\nWhile traders in the stock market primarily use options for hedging, investors in crypto assets have long preferred to buy them as a way to bet on further gains. For that reason, outstanding calls have always exceeded puts in crypto markets, Skew figures show.\nOpen-interest data show that’s still true. Yet over the past month the cost of one-month puts on Bitcoin has risen above the price of comparable calls -- a sign of rising demand to hedge.\nThat suggests crypto options are looking more like equities where defensive contracts have long commanded a premium over bullish counterparts.\nThe upshot? Caution is building across a Bitcoin ecosystem acutely prone to speculative extremes.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":4574204,"gmtCreate":1622777071132,"gmtModify":1635337616995,"authorId":3581650882917100,"author":{"id":3581650882917100,"idStr":"3581650882917100","authorId":3581650882917100,"name":"WendyGoh","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/aeb2b50cab4602df1e5f3c2c1880a1f6","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":116342382,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Ok","text":"Ok","html":"Ok"},{"id":4574313,"gmtCreate":1622777473535,"gmtModify":1635337607081,"authorId":3583394309139708,"author":{"id":3583394309139708,"idStr":"3583394309139708","authorId":3583394309139708,"name":"TerranTan","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":116342382,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Hi","text":"Hi","html":"Hi"},{"id":4575429,"gmtCreate":1622782189407,"gmtModify":1635337489840,"authorId":3583411958858523,"author":{"id":3583411958858523,"idStr":"3583411958858523","authorId":3583411958858523,"name":"7a3b0355","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":116342382,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Like and comment my comment!","text":"Like and comment my comment!","html":"Like and comment my comment!"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":116351575,"gmtCreate":1622776320597,"gmtModify":1634098112641,"author":{"id":"3581832720375359","authorId":"3581832720375359","name":"Pixiestars","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3581832720375359","authorIdStr":"3581832720375359"},"htmlText":"Ok, bubble may burst soon. Can finally catch some then.","listText":"Ok, bubble may burst soon. Can finally catch some then.","text":"Ok, bubble may burst soon. Can finally catch some then.","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/116351575","repostId":1194001604,"repostType":4,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":116351335,"gmtCreate":1622776279927,"gmtModify":1634098113107,"author":{"id":"3576816969360521","authorId":"3576816969360521","name":"股你怕么","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ea4af6f5bc52855706c4d530b3901e85","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3576816969360521","authorIdStr":"3576816969360521"},"htmlText":"Please like and comment","listText":"Please like and comment","text":"Please like and comment","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":4,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/116351335","repostId":1194001604,"repostType":4,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":4574011,"gmtCreate":1622776326159,"gmtModify":1635337635165,"authorId":3572917065505731,"author":{"id":3572917065505731,"idStr":"3572917065505731","authorId":3572917065505731,"name":"Vyy","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/adb01ad8c723a7e324a9c137f73fba4b","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":116351335,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Comment reply Back Pls ","text":"Comment reply Back Pls ","html":"Comment reply Back Pls "}],"langContent":"EN"}],"isCommentEnd":false,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":66,"commentSize":23,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":false,"deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.29.3","shortVersion":"4.29.3","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"laohu8","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/1194001604"}