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The REAL Signal Behind Bitcoin’s Weird Price Action! | Simply SatoSHE · Simply Bitcoin

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  This week a major institutional voice just let something slip
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  and it completely reframes why Bitcoins price action is felt so
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  weird. Because while everyone's been
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  staring at the chart, Bitcoin tagging 126 K, then grinding
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  down the 80 KS, something hasn't been adding up.
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  And trust me, I feel it. I've got a baby on the way, I've
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  got furniture bookmarked on my browser that I want to buy, and
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  Bitcoin is out here acting like it doesn't care about my nesting
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  timeline at all. But jokes aside, this doesn't
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  feel like a normal pullback. It doesn't feel random.
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  Buried in that institutional common is a clue about why
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  Bitcoin keeps stalling near 125 K.
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  Why rallies fade right when conviction peaks and why this
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  weeks price action might not mean what most people think it
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  does. I'm Sophie, welcome back to
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  Satoshi. Let's get into it.
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  First off let me address the $1,000,000 question or should I
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  say $88,000 question. Is bitcoins price being
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  manipulated? If you've been watching the
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  charts you know something feels off.
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  Watch this clip because what gets said towards the end
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  changes how you interpret every dip we've seen from 126,000 down
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  to the 80 KS. I think we need to get back to
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  what is the purpose, What is the purpose of Bitcoin?
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  Then we gave the staple coin. Bitcoin is an asset of fear.
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  When you're less fearful, like we had a trade agreement with
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  China, you saw a shift downward. There is conversations this week
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  that there may be some type of settlement in Ukraine.
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  Bitcoin fell a little bit. So you own Bitcoin because
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  you're frightened of your physical security, you own it
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  because you're frightened of your financial security.
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  The long term fundamental reason you own it because the
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  debasement of financial assets because of deficits.
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  And so to me, even the movement in the last week and we've had
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  about a 2025% drawdown. You see these shifts and it's
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  they're actually pretty non correlated shifts and that's and
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  so the. Role but then some people say is
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  that really insurance right if you had bought it at $125,000
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  but and it's now sitting at 90 some odd $1000 you're saying if.
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  You bought it for a trade, you know it's a very volatile asset.
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  You're going to have to be really good at market timing,
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  which most people aren't. If you're buy it as a hedge
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  against all your hope you know then it has a meaningful impact
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  on a portfolio. OK, Uncle Larry has definitely
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  been sleuthing on Bitcoin Twitter because he's starting to
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  sound like one of us, and I can't even believe I'm saying
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  that. What is he doing?
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  He's beginning to believe. But the signal is clear.
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  Rallies fizzle out at key levels, dips get bought up just
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  in time, and it's like the markets playing pinball and wear
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  the ball. And this isn't some shadowy
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  conspiracy. It's cold, hard market mechanics
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  at work and the key players, option dealers and big
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  institutions hedging billions in derivatives.
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  Take a look at this chart. It's the smoking gun.
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  This shows the open interest for Bitcoin options expired on
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  December 26th of this year. Blue bars are calls, yellows are
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  puts, and those red dots total intrinsic value.
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  We've got a staggering 268,267 contracts outstanding 194,801
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  calls versus just 73,466 puts, giving a put to call ratio of
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  0.38. That's bullish asymmetry, right?
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  The notional value over $23 billion that's more than 1% of
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  bitcoins entire market cap vanishing in a single day and
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  the Max Payne price, the level where these option holders lose
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  the most 96,000 dealers have every incentive to pin the price
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  around here and maximize their profits and minimize their
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  payouts. Now let's look at some of the
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  traders and bitcoiners on X who are calling this out at no limit
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  gains. Sums up the ruthless games being
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  played out with this tweet. Options don't just sit there,
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  big whales hedge them. And when there's heavy
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  positioning around certain strikes, price starts getting
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  pulled towards liquidity. And he's spot on.
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  This is why we've seen chop fake outs and those wicked stop
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  hunts. Price grinds up, gets rejected
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  near call wall dumps and buyers step in before it crashes too
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  far. And then there's at David Eng
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  MBA who's been threading the narrative like a pro.
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  In one post, he warns of of a $450 million gamma flush over
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  the next week, calling it a double barreled liquidity event
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  that will wipe out 67% of the entire derivatives board clean
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  by December 26th. Gamma, for those new to this, is
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  a super simple way to measure how much work options dealers
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  have to do to keep their bets safe as the price of Bitcoin
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  moves. Imagine you're selling lemonade,
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  but you promised some kids that if the price of lemons goes up a
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  lot, you'll give them free lemonade to make up for it.
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  Lemonade. I'll have some lemonade.
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  Certainly that'll be. $2.00 but I've only got 1/4.
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  Then I guess you're going thirsty loser.
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  Protect yourself. Every time lemon prices jump a
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  little you have to quickly run out and buy more lemons to
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  protect yourself. The faster and more you have to
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  run around buying lemons for every tiny price change, the
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  higher your gamma. Right now it's creating a cage
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  around 85 to 90 K and we've seen that because the price of
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  Bitcoin literally hasn't moved between 85 and 90K.
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  Seriously, 88 K is like the of my existence.
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  Dealers sell into rallies above 89 K and buy dips below 87 K,
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  keeping us totally dropped. So what's the big deal on
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  December 26 this date? I keep mentioning the big deal
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  is that $415 million aggregate pin releases and the structural
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  price suppression is gone, opening up the path to a much
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  higher range of Bitcoin price. Let's say bitcoins fair value
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  price using the power law is about 118,000.
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  We now have a 30,000 plus discount per coin.
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  That spring is coiled and when almost 50% of the gamma
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  vanishes, the gravity of 85 K loses its pull and the call wall
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  at 90K crumbles. Dealer stop hedging against us
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  I think that there is just like this existential crisis in the
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  market that's happened amongst some of the Bitcoin buyers where
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  and then that's that's like we're at the worst of that.
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  Like that's shifting out. I think the retail investors who
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  are like here for like very quick number go up.
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  Like that investor profile has shifted a lot and and now we
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  have a lot more people that are just coming in to Bitcoin
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  because they think over the next three to four years, they can,
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  you know, triple or quadruple their money.
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  You know, there's a lot more investors like that that are
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  entering the market. I think that we had a lot of
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  leverage flushed out and even before this decline leverage I
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  think was like relatively low to prior cycles.
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  We put out this banking report through epoch and the, and I put
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  a chart in there just kind of like comparing proportions of
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  leverage to market capitalizations of assets in the
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  system. And like, if you look at what
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  happened in, like broader crypto during the prior cycles for
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  leverage expansion and like where we're at with Bitcoin
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  today, it's significantly lower, like less than, I think it was
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  close to like, you know, 40% of that amount.
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  And I was kind of expecting more of that to come in.
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  But I think with this crash, like even more of that got
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  flushed out. Yeah.
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  And we're like below general like leverage of like, you know,
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  broader securities markets. So I think a lot more of that
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  could start stepping back in, particularly when banks start
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  lending a lot more, which I expect to happen over the next
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  year. So it's like leverage can be
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  expanding. A lot more of that could be
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  retail driven. I think that.
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  You know what? Yeah.
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  Well, like a lot of those factors combined, the it's, it's
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  just, it's, it's healthy is kind of how I'm looking at this.
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  There's a lot of just like very healthy characteristics that
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  have come in. And the funniest part is like,
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  nobody knows why we're having this crash.
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  It's like the funniest part of this.
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  So it's like you literally can't even come up with a good reason
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  for why it's happening. So buy the shit out of it.
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  Like, what are you doing? You know it's that easy.
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  So think about it. These legacy finance dinosaurs,
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  banks and institutions, they're harvesting premiums by selling
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  calls and puts, essentially betting on boredom.
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  They're the ones that are creating this push and grind,
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  trapping Bitcoin like a rat in a cage with all of their reindeer
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  games. OK, maybe that was too many
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  animal metaphors, but you get the point.
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  And here's the irony. They're playing checkers while
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  Bitcoin is playing 40 chess. Once these options expire, their
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  suppression tools evaporate. Building a new gamma wall cost
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  time and hundreds of millions that they won't rebuild
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  overnight, especially not over the holidays.
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  We hit 125. Everyone was super excited.
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  That dopamine firing and then we had to pull back.
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  Why did we have to pull back? I knew we were going to pull
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  back because there was a CME. There was a CME gap that would
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  have been created if we hadn't pulled back.
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  Trad FI drives Bitcoin now, right?
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  And you when When a Triadfly drives an asset, you're going to
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  have to follow the rules that Triadfly sets.
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  So what does Bitcoin look like after the December 26 release
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  valve? We've seen this before.
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  Post expiry volatility explodes and Bitcoin snaps back to its
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  trend. Sources like Bloomberg and
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  Crypto Slater already warning of rising volatility ahead of this
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  $23 billion unwind calls clustered at 100,000 and
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  120,000. That's bullish positioning
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  screaming for upside. And if we flip the gamma level
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  at 88,500, dealers switch from selling to buying, fueling a
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  squeeze the vacuum to $118,000 bitcoins.
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  Mathematical fair value pulls us higher.
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  And with ETF flows ramping up and no more dealer counter flow,
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  we're talking aggressive moves into January.
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