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Yerbolat's avatar

sir, can u put it simply for users that are not familiar with IV and options please

Jimmy Fingers's avatar

Past it into AI and ask for help, bud.

Yerbolat's avatar

where for market maker to go first, max pain reality for MM’s is imho to neutralise short traders

Neural Foundry's avatar

The observtion about vol-of-vol behavior reverting to pre-ETF patterns is fasinating. It really does suggest we might be witnessing an actual regime shift rather than just another dip. If implied volatility starts behaving more like 2021-2022 again, that could mean we're heading back to Bitcoin's wild macro-sensitive days.

derek's avatar

Excellent nuance and depth Jeff. Keep up your great work.

Ashish's avatar

Excellent article. I believe that one of reasons for the volatility to come back is because the OTC desks have been drained. They are the main drivers providing liquidity to kill the volatility. Check out this link, and I look forward to your thoughts:

https://cryptoquant.com/analytics/query/683567991c54fe5f2d3dd6a8

Jeff Park's avatar

Yes though Coinbase currently moving wallets so need to check again after CQ picks up new wallets

Ashish's avatar

I think the recent news about Coinbase moving wallets was exchange reserves, not OTC desks.

This is the link for exchange reserves:

https://cryptoquant.com/asset/btc/chart/exchange-flows/exchange-reserve

Jason Woolery's avatar

Excellent. Thank you.

Kenshi Ryo Kade's avatar

Nice read ! Thx

First Strike's avatar

Great article!

TR's avatar

Great article. Yes the pain is the the upside, only a few understand ..

Khoa Nguyen's avatar

The problem is much simpler. Bitcoin is no different than the high beta stocks. If there are more opportunities to make money somewhere else, Bitcoin continues to under perform.