【Chain Article】Recent actions by traders have revealed an interesting signal: they have refocused their attention on Bitcoin's round number of $100,000.
From the options market data, it's quite interesting. According to Deribit's statistics, Bitcoin options contracts expiring on January 30 with a strike price of $100,000 have reached peak open interest. This scale is more than twice the notional value of the second most popular contract (a put option with an $80,000 strike price, expiring on the same date). The numbers don't sound particularly large, but here's the key point—the direction is very unified.
Jake Ostrovskis, head of OTC trading at Wintermute, noticed that this one-directional bet was formed on the basis of large positions from last week. His judgment is that although put premium still exists in the current curve, it has declined significantly. In other words, the market has finally stopped assuming the most pessimistic scenario.