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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Bull Breather? Bitcoin Market Turns Indecisive at Two-Month High

Bitcoin's bulls are showing signs of exhaustion, having engineered a speedy rally to $8,900.

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Startup Crypto Exchange Blade to Launch Zero-Fee Trading in February

Crypto perpetuals exchange Blade will be introducing zero-fee trading next month in a bid to gain market share from rivals.

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Bitcoin Eyes $9K After Biggest Single-Day Rise in a Month

Tuesday's sharp rise looks to have put bitcoin on path toward the 200-day average at $9,100.

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CME's Bitcoin Options See First-Day Volume of $2.3M

Options on bitcoin futures from Chicago Mercantile Exchange got off to a good start on Monday, seeing trading volume reach 55 contracts in the opening session.

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Resurgent Bitcoin Will Likely Shrug Off Long-Term Bear Cross

A bitcoin chart indicator is about to turn bearish for the first time since June 2018, but should have little effect on prices.

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Bitcoin Makes Biggest Weekly Price Gain Since October

Bitcoin's six-month downtrend looks to have ended with last week's double-digit price gain.

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This Metric Suggests Bitcoin Has Bottomed Out

Bitcoin likely carved out a major price bottom in December, according to a non-price metric, which has proved as a reliable price indicator in the past.

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Bitcoin Retraces 45 Percent of Recent Price Gains as Bulls Lose Momentum

Bitcoin has erased 45 percent of recent gains in what appears to be a low-volume pullback.

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Bitcoin's Bull Bias Intact Despite 6 Percent Price Pullback

Bitcoin's bullish case remains intact with prices holding well above key support near $7,570.

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10M Bitcoins Haven't Moved in More Than a Year, Highest Since 2017

“HODLing” has returned to a major milestone: The total amount of bitcoins that haven’t changed hands in more than a year has crossed the 10 million mark.

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