Omkar Godbole

Omkar Godbole is a Co-Managing Editor and analyst on CoinDesk's Markets team. He has been covering crypto options and futures, as well as macro and cross-asset activity, since 2019, leveraging his prior experience in directional and non-directional derivative strategies at brokerage firms. His extensive background also encompasses the FX markets, having served as a fundamental analyst at currency and commodities desks for Mumbai-based brokerages and FXStreet. Omkar holds small amounts of bitcoin, ether, BitTorrent, tron and dot.

Omkar holds a Master's degree in Finance and a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation.

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India's ICICI Bank Stops Customers From Making Overseas Crypto Investments

ICICI Bank is telling customers not to use foreign remittances to invest in cryptocurrencies.

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Fed's Bullard Says Time Is Right to Scale Back Stimulus; Bitcoin Unmoved

The Fed's taper talk presents downside risk to liquidity-addicted financial markets.

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Bitcoin's Range Play Likely to End With Bullish Breakout: Analyst

"Intermediate-term momentum has been improving based on the MACD histogram," one analyst said.

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Bitcoin Listless as New 'Bearish Crossover' Looms

Bitcoin's long-term moving averages are about to produce yet another bearish crossover.

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Synthetix Rallies as DeFi Protocol Announces Layer 2 Launch

"SNX's upside is in part supported by the latest update from the team in relation to the planned collaboration with Optimism," one analyst said.

Synthetix is used to create synthetic versions of stocks like Apple, Google and Coinbase.

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Traders Make Money Selling 'Strangles' as Bitcoin Goes Quiet

A strangle is essentially a bet that bitcoin’s price won’t break out anytime soon.

Bitcoin options traders are betting the market waters will stay calm.

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Reflation-Trade Rethink Keeps Bitcoin Under Pressure

Reflation bets are those that benefit from a pickup in economic growth and inflation.

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Bitcoin Price Consolidation May Be Nearing the End, Indicator Suggests

The cryptocurrency saw big moves in December and April after the Bollinger bandwidth fell to 0.15.

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Leveraged Funds on CME Trim Bets Against Bitcoin

"This probably has more to do with leveraged funds hedging their long positions in GBTC shares using the CME futures,” one trader said.

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Axie Profiting From Booming NFT Economy as Bitcoin Struggles

The boom in the play-to-earn economy comes amid falling yields in the bitcoin and DeFi markets.

The popularity of Axie Infinity's marketplace is helping the price of the project's governance token, AXS.

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