$15.9B in Bitcoin options expiring on Deribit today with max pain at $75k and mildly bullish put/call ratio of 0.69.
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Approximately $15.9 billion in Bitcoin options contracts are expiring today on Deribit, representing around 184,000 BTC in notional value, with Bitcoin trading near $84,000 at the time of the expiry. The max pain price—the strike at which the largest amount of options would expire worthless—sits at $75,000, while the put/call ratio of 0.69 suggests a mildly bullish lean among options traders positioning for the settlement.
Bitcoin's recent performance shows a 10% weekly gain, though the asset remains 25% below its price from a year prior and 33% below its all-time high above $126,000. The pullback in Bitcoin has coincided with this large options expiry, even as competing assets like XRP and Solana have continued climbing.
The outcome of today's expiry will depend partly on whether price action gravitates toward the max pain level or moves materially away from it during settlement, though the specific catalysts that might drive Bitcoin price movement in either direction remain unclear from current conditions.