Traders are piling into Treasury options, betting that the yield on the 10-year Treasury will rise back to 4 per cent in the coming weeks - a level not reached since late November. The bullish bet comes as yields have actually edged higher recently, with the 10-year yield hitting a high near 4.20 per cent earlier this month before moving to 4.16 per cent on Monday as investors weigh in on the latest economic data and take notes from Federal Reserve officials...
Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX, said: "Counterfeit products always have a rising season... If you always say that counterfeit products don't have a rising season, it's because you don't have those rising counterfeit products." Hayes said that many traders still expect the counterfeit products market to develop as it has in previous years, believing that the same cryptocurrency and the same routine will be repeated. "You want it to be like the last counterfeit products market, because then yo...
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.
US stock index futures were mostly up on Sunday night after a period of volatility with the end of the government shutdown, a stalled rebound in the tech sector and fading expectations of a Federal Reserve rate cut ahead of key US labour market data. Dow Jones Worker...
LD Capital founder Jack Yi posted on social media, "After entering the crypto industry for ten years, the people who have really gained are those early holders or miners, as well as project parties and exchanges and arbitrage institutions. The worst is the coin surfer. I never do trading myself, but I have also lost a lot of money to traders around me, especially contract trading. Ordinary people don't have this ability at all. Even if you win a few times, losing once will be gone, and it will s...
According to Lookonchain monitoring, traders with a 100% win rate (0xc2a3) continue to increase their long positions in BTC, ETH and SOL. Their current positions include: 1.3.9 million ETH, worth $151 million; 2.1070 BTC, worth $118 million; 3.56.9 million SOL, worth $105 million. In addition, the trader has placed a limit order to add 40,000 long positions in SOL at $184, worth $7.36 million.
U.S. short-term interest rate futures fell after the Federal Reserve cut rates as traders bet on further rate cuts.
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...
Bond traders are bracing for further falls in US Treasury yields, even as the yield on the 30-year note fell to a six-month low on Tuesday. Data show that the cost of options bets to protect against sharp falls in yields is rising rapidly. With the US government shutdown set to become the second longest on record, coupled with renewed concerns about credit markets and rising trade tensions, traders are flooding into quality safe haven assets. The rally in the US Treasury market is driving the ov...
CryptoQuant founder and CEO Ki Young Ju wrote on the X platform that the current bitcoin futures traders are mainly retail investors. The average order size has dropped from $6,000 earlier this year to $2,000.