USA Week Ahead: ET Timezone
Wednesday 10:00am - ISM
Wednesday 2pm - Beige Book
Thursday - Fed Presidents Speak
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BTC: $25,775 (-1.5% / 7-day)
ETH :$1,629 (-1.8% / 7-day)
The bitcoin market continues to have the favor of traders, with another good week of volumes.
Ethereum post-merge 2022 is steadily declining and is now stable at about half of Bitcoin.
The gamma week incentivized participants to take multiple positions, often ahead of price action.
The first relevant trade was the buy of a put spread financed by calls at zero cost:
https://twitter.com/Gravity5ucks/status/1696802635217530925?s=20
Later in the week with the spot at around 28k and with exceptional timing the purchase of risk-reversal (puts bought) -$30k+$26k went quickly in profit:
In vega terms instead, the fullest trade of the week was the sale of a DEC $28k straddle:
With the loss of $27k support, on-screen the flow was focused on selling calls in the $28k-$30k strike range on September.
As well as long puts positions $23k October-November-December.
Crypto markets remained active this week with very little to show for it. ETH ended the week -1.21%, oSQTH ended the week -1.99%.
oSQTH IV found a low this week trading in the 40s and quickly bouncing back to the mid 50s.
The 7-day total volume for oSQTH via Uniswap oSQTH/ETH pool was $323.28k
August 31st saw the most volume, with a daily total of $149.70k traded.
Crab saw slight declines during the week ending at -0.11% in USDC terms.
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