Investors adopt risk-off approach as Bitcoin futures OI plummets to YTD low

Definition The total amount of funds (USD Value) allocated in open futures contracts. While crypto backed-margin is the percentage of futures contracts’ open interest that is margined in the nat...

Risk-Off Is Back: Crypto, Equities Slide on Persistent Inflation

The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge showed higher prices have been more persistent than originally thought, sending stocks and cryptocurrencies into the red Friday.  The core personal...

Investors hold Bitcoin, Ethereum over stablecoins in risk-off environment

Glassnode data analyzed by CryptoSlate suggests that investors are confident holding Bitcoin and Ethereum, over stablecoins, during the current risk-off environment As previously mentioned, billions i...

Bitcoin: All-time low, 29% in crypto-margin futures open interest, suggests risk-off environment

Futures open interest is the total amount of funds (USD Value) allocated in open futures contracts. At the time of writing, futures open interest is around 415k BTC, equivalent to $8.5bn. However, the...

Only 150K Bitcoin remain in Future OI as switch to risk-off fast approaches

Bitcoin (BTC)  began the year risk-off — as seen in the Futures Open Interest (OI) Crypto-Margined metric displayed below. Bitcoin: Percent Futures Open Interest crypto-Margined metric – Source: Glass...

Bitcoin deep dive: 15M BTC in self-custody as Binance withdrawals peak, derivatives switch to ‘risk-off’

Risk is off the table Risk, leverage, and speculation could be considered the keywords for 2021 as excess cash from covid stimulus entered the stock market and crypto ecosystem. Many traditional finan...

Coinbase Stock Hits All-time Low as Markets Scream ‘Risk-off’

Coinbase stock took a beating Monday, setting a new low-price point after dropping 8% on the day toward the end of the trading session in New York as investors dial down crypto-related risk in the wak...

Risk-Off Sentiment Returns With Focus on Inflation: Markets Wrap

(Bloomberg) — Risk-off sentiment returned to markets on Thursday as concern about inflation and the risk of global recession overshadowed the Bank of England’s move to restore calm. Most Read fr...

Bitcoin Price Analysis: Risk-Off Posture Resumes

Bitcoin Resumes Risk-Off Posture:  Sally Ho’s Technical Analysis – 29 August 2022     Bitcoin (BTC/USD) resumed its risk-off posture early in the Asian session as the pair weakened to the 19899 area f...

Bitcoin likely to transition to a risk-off asset in H2 2022, says Bloomberg analyst

Bitcoin is likely to transition from a risk-on to a risk-off asset in the second half of 2022, as the macroeconomic environment is rapidly shifting towards a recession, said Mike McGlone, senior commo...

Bitcoin Whales And Investors Heavily ‘Buying The Dip’ At $19k Even As Miners Adopt Risk-Off Approach ⋆ ZyCrypto

Advertisement &nbsp &nbsp Despite Bitcoin reeling from a massive deleveraging event and pulling back sharply to levels last seen in 2020, investors have found a small window o...

Rupee Tumbles to New Record, Stocks Slide on Global Risk-Off

(Bloomberg) — The Indian rupee declined to a new record low and stocks slid as global risk-off sentiment spurred by expectations of aggressive Federal Reserve tightening weighed on emerging-mark...

Bitcoin’s rocky road to becoming a risk-off asset: Analysts investigate

Thursday was a bloodbath for traditional and cryptocurrency markets. On the worst day of trading since 2020, Bitcoin (BTC) dropped over 7%, while the Nasdaq slipped over 5%.  Many hoped for capitulati...

Is Bitcoin a Risk-On or a Risk-Off Asset? Maybe It’s Neither

As such, it is probably more accurate to refer to bitcoin as an aspirational store of value. Yes, a borderless, permissionless, uncensorable, sound monetary system-of-value transfer with a predictable...

CoinShare CSO Believes the Geopolitical Tensions Could Help Bitcoin Become Risk-Off Asset

The significant crypto enthusiast and investor Meltem Demirors recently shared her opinions on the future of Bitcoin.  She believes that the current geopolitical tensions are bringing a change fo...

Russia Leads To Risk-Off, Proactive Policies Announced From Dual Sessions

China Last Night KraneShares Key News Asian equities were firmly in the risk-off camp due to the Ukraine/Russia situation, rising oil prices, and potential Fed rate hikes. China and Hong Kong were not...

CoinShares’ Meltem Demirors on How Bitcoin Can Become a Risk-Off Asset

In the past couple of weeks, geopolitical tension in Europe escalated so much that it transitioned to an invasion of a sovereign country and a flat-out war that’s currently taking place on its territo...

Geopolitical Tensions Could Transform Bitcoin Into a Risk-Off Asset, Says CoinShares CSO Meltem Demirors

A veteran crypto investor says that current geopolitical events could help Bitcoin (BTC) transition into a store-of-value asset. In a new interview with Bloomberg Technology, CoinShares chief strategy...

Dogecoin: In light of this, should investors be in a risk-off mode

Dogecoin price has been on a sad slump for the second half of 2021 and most of 2022. The reason for this could be that Shiba Inu, the Dogecoin-killer, drew attention away from it during the peak mania...

Ukraine/Russia Tension Leads To Risk-Off Night In Asia

China Last Night KraneShares Key News It might be Valentine’s Day, but we got no love overnight as Asian equities were risk-off on Ukraine/Russia fears though Australia and the Philippines were outlie...

Opinion: AT&T and 4 more unloved dividend stocks to buy in a ‘risk-off’ era

With stocks off to one of their worst starts to the year since the 2008-2009 financial crisis, it’s no longer crazy to talk about a sustained period of market volatility or a prolonged “risk off” envi...

Oil Sellers Driven by Bearish EIA Report, Risk-Off Sentiment

U.S. West Texas Intermediate and international benchmark Brent crude oil futures edged lower for a second straight session on Friday but held on to enough of its earlier advances to post a gain for th...

Bitcoin’s transition to a risk-off asset will propel it to $100K in 2022, says Bloomberg analyst

Bloomberg analyst Mike McGlone is convinced Bitcoin is on track to reach $100K in 2022, as it completes its transition from a risk-on to risk-off asset.  While the Fed is planning to raise interest ra...