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Bitcoin Futures' Open Interest Drops More Than Half in 2 Months
The Arcane Research report says this downward trading indicates institutional investors are being “cautious” at the moment.
Por Lyllah Ledesma
The total open interest in the bitcoin futures market is sitting at $11.3 billion, down 59% from its April 13 peak of $27.3 billion according to Arcane Research.
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The report said the downward trading indicates that institutional investors are being “cautious” at the moment. It also notes that three-month futures in bitcoin are in backwardation, meaning they are traded at a discount to current spot prices. That is generally perceived to be a bearish signal.
Open interest on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) as a share of total bitcoin futures was climbing at the end of May, but is now trading downward. The CME's open interest is currently sitting at 12.2% of the bitcoin futures market, according to the report. That puts it in fourth place, behind retail platforms Binance (22.5% of total open interest), OKEx (14%) and Bybit (12.9%).
“I think it’s safe to say that institutional interest has waned,” said Nathan Cox, chief investment officer at Two Prime. Cox said that institutions remain “hungry” for crypto as a whole, but their ability to step in is limited by the recent volatility in the market.
Meanwhile, some note the decline in futures activity indicates that other market participants are also stepping back.
“What this shows is a lot of retail traders got burned when the market started to come lower,” said Patrick Heusser, head of trading at Crypto Finance AG.
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Nonetheless, Two Prime’s Cox remains optimistic that larger investors will buy the dip.
“As things stabilize I would expect to see large institutions announce positions, likely being accumulated into this pullback,” he said.
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