{"id":43545,"date":"2026-05-15T05:09:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptd.in\/how-will-markets-react-when-2b-bitcoin-options-expire-today\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T05:09:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:09:51","slug":"how-will-markets-react-when-2b-bitcoin-options-expire-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptd.in\/sk\/how-will-markets-react-when-2b-bitcoin-options-expire-today\/","title":{"rendered":"How Will Markets React When $2B Bitcoin Options Expire Today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around 25,000 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, May 15, with a notional value of roughly $2 billion. This event is small, so it is unlikely to have any impact on spot markets.<\/p>\n<p>Crypto prices took a mid-week dip following the US inflation report, but have started to recover a little on Friday, with around $25 billion in total capitalization exiting since Monday.<\/p>\n<h2>Bitcoin Options Expiry<\/h2>\n<p>This week\u2019s batch of Bitcoin options contracts has a put\/call ratio of 0.55, meaning that there are almost twice as many sellers of longs as shorts. Max pain is around $80,000, according to Coinglass, which is a little lower than current spot prices, so some could be out of the money on expiry.<\/p>\n<p>Open interest (OI), or the value or number of Bitcoin options contracts yet to expire, remains highest at the $80,000 strike price on Deribit, with $1.68 billion, but bears still have $1.2 billion in OI at $60,000.\u00a0Total BTC options OI across all exchanges has been steadily climbing this month and is at $38 billion, according to Coinglass.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cCompared to last week, expiry size has grown materially while put\/call ratios moved even lower, showing traders continue rotating toward upside exposure,\u201d said Deribit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/16.0.1\/72x72\/1f6a8.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udea8\" class=\"wp-smiley\" \/> Options Expiry Alert.<br \/>\nAt 08:00 UTC tomorrow, over $2.63B in crypto options are set to expire on Deribit.<\/p>\n<p>bitcoin:native : $2.01B notional | Put\/Call: 0.55 | Max Pain: $80,000<br \/>\nethereum:native : $625M notional | Put\/Call: 0.39 | Max Pain: $2,300<\/p>\n<p>Compared to last week, expiry\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r0cJwp1eRy\">pic.twitter.com\/r0cJwp1eRy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Deribit (@DeribitOfficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeribitOfficial\/status\/2054945761008189947?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition to today\u2019s batch of Bitcoin options, around 274,500 Ethereum contracts are also expiring, with a notional value of $625 million, max pain at $2,300, and a put\/call ratio of 0.39. Total ETH options OI across all exchanges is around $7.3 billion.<\/p>\n<h2>Spot Market Outlook<\/h2>\n<p>Total capitalization is up 1.7% on the day at $2.77 trillion, and today could see some volatility as the US CLARITY Act advanced out of the Senate Banking Committee in a 15-9 bipartisan vote on Thursday.\u00a0The past six weeks have seen steady gains with markets increasing by 16%.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin recovered from its <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitcoins-drop-below-80k-was-not-random-here-are-the-3-hidden-triggers\/\">Thursday dip<\/a> below $80,000 but failed to break resistance at $82,000, falling back below $81,000 again during the Friday morning Asian trading session.<\/p>\n<p>There has been little recovery for Ether, which failed to break above $2,300 and has fallen back again to $2,265 at the time of writing.\u00a0The altcoins are faring a little better with positive moves for XRP, Hyperliquid, Zcash, and Canton.<\/p>\n<p>Pr\u00edspevok <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/how-will-markets-react-when-2b-bitcoin-options-expire-today\/\">How Will Markets React When $2B Bitcoin Options Expire Today?<\/a> sa objavil ako prv\u00fd na <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 25,000 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, May 15, with a notional value of roughly $2 billion. This event is small, so it is unlikely to have any impact on spot markets. Crypto prices took a mid-week dip following the US inflation report, but have started to recover a little on Friday, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feeds"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How Will Markets React When $2B Bitcoin Options Expire Today? - cryptd.in<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptd.in\/sk\/how-will-markets-react-when-2b-bitcoin-options-expire-today\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"sk_SK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How Will Markets React When $2B Bitcoin Options Expire Today? - cryptd.in\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Around 25,000 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, May 15, with a notional value of roughly $2 billion. 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