Traders on Friday upped their bets that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates for the third time in a row at its December meeting after Williams said the central bank could cut rates in the "near term", according to foreign media reports. Short-term interest rate futures are now pricing in a 57% chance of a rate cut in December, up from below 50% previously.
CPI is the only sign of the vacuum since the US government shutdown and before the Fed's decision, but it is not inflation that is really driving the market. Traders are waiting for the data to come out and then executing the script that has been written...
Central bank purchases strengthen bullish sentiment, and the international spot gold market is unlikely to end peacefully! Is the rise in the dollar actually a last resort for traders? OPEC + retains its hands after intervention, and this level of oil prices becomes the key...
Amid several market catalysts looming, options markets are flashing panic signals: traders are hedging against the risk of a tech crash. Click to view...
Options traders are using currencies such as the Aussie dollar and the euro to express their bearish views on the US dollar in the wake of recent poor US economic data. The Aussie has gained support on the back of the Reserve Bank of Australia's "cautious and gradual" easing stance and on the back of improved risk sentiment. The attractiveness of the euro has risen...
Trump forces Powell, changes the attitude of the European Union, traders are watching the situation change window. Click to view...
Interest rate futures currently show that traders now expect the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates three times this year, starting in June alone.
Traders are now pricing in the possibility that the Federal Reserve's rate cut will begin in June rather than May.
A cryptocurrency trader was trading in Uniswap V3's USDC-USDT liquidity pool on Wednesday when a suspected "sandwich attack" caused his $732,000 USDC to be exchanged for only $18,600 USDT, losing more than $700,000. According to on-chain data analytics, the event may have been initiated by a MEV (Maximum Extractable Value) bot. The bot emptied the liquidity pool by preemptively trading, causing a price imbalance and paying the block builder to prioritize processing...
This week saw a significant increase in volatility in the Ethereum (ETH) market, with implied volatility (IV) climbing rapidly, catching cryptocurrency options traders off guard. Changes in market structure have prompted traders to adjust their positions in response to potential downside risks. Cryptocurrency derivatives trader Gordon Grant has emphasized that the implied volatility of one-week options has exceeded 80%, and the market expects daily price fluctuations of nearly 4% in March.