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Crypto Options Analytics, Sept 4th, 2023: BTC, ETH, and oSQTH Analysis

Written by Greg Magadini | Sep 5, 2023

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Disclaimer: Nothing here is trading advice or solicitation. This is for educational purposes only.

Authors have holdings in BTC, ETH and Lyra and may change their holdings anytime.

Math-minded people here, pardon any typos.

 
 

BTC: $25,775 (-1.5% / 7-day)

ETH :$1,629 (-1.8% / 7-day)

 

PROPRIETARY “GVOL-DIRECTION” FLOWS - @Gravity5ucks

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.

(BTC Weekly Volumes - Contracts)
(ETH Weekly Volumes - Contracts)

The gamma week incentivized participants to take multiple positions, often ahead of price action.

(BTC Options Scanner - Top Trades)

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:

(BTC Heatmaps Blocks)

In vega terms instead, the fullest trade of the week was the sale of a DEC $28k straddle:

(BTC Heatmaps Vega)

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. 

(BTC Heatmaps Onscreen)

The Squeethcosystem Report (8/27/23 - 9/3/23)

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%.

Crypto Volatility

oSQTH IV found a low this week trading in the 40s and quickly bouncing back to the mid 50s.

 

Trading Volume

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 Strategy

Crab saw slight declines during the week ending at -0.11% in USDC terms.

 

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