Tuesday 8:30am - CPI
Thursday 8:30am - PPI
Friday 8:30am - Empire State Manufacturing
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Authors have holdings in BTC, ETH, and Lyra and may change their holdings anytime.
The Labor Department said the economy added 275,000 jobs in February, well above the 198,000 that economists were expecting.
Chart: wsj.com
Unemployment ticked higher to 3.9% and wage growth slowed, despite a blockbuster hiring number.
The combined effects of slowing wage growth, higher than expected unemployment headline number but strong payrolls brings the economy closer to a “soft-landing”, a best-case scenario outcome.
Gold moved higher last week, making new ATHs, while interest rates held mostly steady week-on-week.
Chart: ustreasuryyieldcurve.com
Next week we have two big inflation numbers CPI on Tuesday and PPI on Thursday.
BTC: $68,678 (+9.7% / 7-day)
ETH :$3,873 (+11.1% / 7-day)
SOL :$143.41 (+9.5% / 7-day)
Bitcoin prices tested the all-time highs last week and now prices are currently finding a direction.
Chart: Finviz.com
From a short-term trading perspective, this puts us in the no-man’s land of trade ideas. I can see two really good arguments for prices going either up or down.
From a Delta bias perspective holding long delta bags (longterm positions) makes the most sense.
From a short-term perspective, sit and watch. Look at the delta-neutral strategies instead.
Chart: 90-DTE Basis (March 2023 - Present)
Looking at the current Bitcoin basis, we see substantial opportunity worth exploring.
Basis on option prices!
A very interesting element of the crypto landscape is the positive correlation between basis and spot prices. Traditionally, in equities, when markets crash, people buy treasuries and risk-free rates compress… but this effect is small and barely worthwhile.
In crypto, however, a +25% basis can completely flatten to zero on a market crash (think May 2021). This provides extra juice to long-dated options.
Call are extra expensive today due to the large annualized basis, while puts are extra cheap.
Then combine the current option RR-Skew and you get a substantial opportunity for delta-neutral risk-reversal trades.
Chart: 90-DTE Bitcoin ∆25 C-P / ATM IV (March 2023 - Present)
This opportunity can also extend to positive delta structures, such as “Collars”, enabling cheap bag-protection.
Ultimately, the market is in a real 2-way zone right now w.r.t. delta direction in the short-term and medium-term timeframes.
Everyone is positioned for the ATH breakout but the cost of the leveraged long trade is absolutely expensive.
Today, pricing for ∆short and ∆neutral structures are VERY enticing and there’s a lot of bulls right now that could EASILY get trapped here!
BTC +8.66% / ETH +12.46% / NDX -1.35%
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Crypto markets remain strong week. ETH ended the week +11.72% and oSQTH ended the week +23.11%.
oSQTH IV continues to climb, trading over +135 and closed near highs to end the week.
Crab saw declines ending the week -0.69% in USDC terms.
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