{"id":42756,"date":"2025-08-18T15:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T15:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=42756"},"modified":"2025-08-18T15:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T15:47:12","slug":"insurance-against-price-slides-in-blackrocks-bitcoin-etf-now-costliest-since-april-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=42756","title":{"rendered":"Insurance Against Price Slides in BlackRock&#8217;s Bitcoin ETF Now Costliest Since April Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Protection against price drops in BlackRock&#8217;s spot bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF), is now at its priciest since the early April market slide.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the spread between implied volatilities (IV) for 25-delta puts and 25-delta calls for the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) rose to 4.4, the widest since April 10, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/marketchameleon.com\/Overview\/IBIT\/VolatilitySkew\/\">data source Market Chameleon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, put options, which insure the buyer against price drops in the underlying asset, traded at a premium of 4.4 IV relative to calls, or bullish bets. It&#8217;s a sign investors are increasingly seeking protection against price declines, reflecting growing concerns about IBIT&#8217;s near-term outlook.<\/p>\n<p>IBIT gapped lower at $65.72 on Monday, tracking overnight losses in the spot bitcoin market. At press time, the ETF shares were trading at $65.44, down 1.51% for the day, having reached a record high of $69.89 last week, according to data source TradingView.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protection against price drops in BlackRock&#8217;s spot bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF), is now at its priciest since the early April market slide. On Monday, the spread between implied volatilities (IV) for 25-delta puts and 25-delta calls for the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) rose to 4.4, the widest since April 10, according to data [&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-42756","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\/42756","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=42756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}