{"id":19490,"date":"2025-03-28T04:16:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T04:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=19490"},"modified":"2025-03-28T04:16:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T04:16:31","slug":"bitcoin-options-worth-over-12-billion-set-to-expire-on-friday-market-volatility-looming-large","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=19490","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Options Worth Over $12 Billion Set To Expire On Friday: Market Volatility Looming Large?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The cryptocurrency market could experience a major upheaval as investors brace for the expiry of over $12 billion worth of Bitcoin options on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened: <\/strong>According to leading cryptocurrency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deribit.com\/statistics\/BTC\/metrics\/options\">derivatives exchange<\/a> Deribit, Bitcoin options contracts, with about $12.14 billion in notional value, are set to expire at 4:00 a.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>This expiry accounted for 43% of the total Open Interest for BTC options, valued at around $27.98 billion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Options are derivatives that give the contract buyer the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell the underlying asset at a predetermined price and date. A call option gives the purchaser the right to buy an asset, while a put option allows them to sell assets at an agreed-upon price.<\/p>\n<p>As of this writing, the put\/call ratio was 0.49, indicating a bullish sentiment as more traders were betting on price &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/25\/03\/44529016\/bitcoin-options-worth-over-12-billion-set-to-expire-on-fridayheres-why-you-should-watch-out-for-volatility\" alt=\"Bitcoin\" options worth over billion set to expire on friday: market volatility looming large>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cryptocurrency market could experience a major upheaval as investors brace for the expiry of over $12 billion worth of Bitcoin options on Friday. What happened: According to leading cryptocurrency derivatives exchange Deribit, Bitcoin options contracts, with about $12.14 billion in notional value, are set to expire at 4:00 a.m. ET. This expiry accounted for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-19490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}