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Over $10.4B in BTC, ETH Options Expire as Bitcoin Hovers Near Max Pain

Over $10.4B in BTC, ETH Options Expire as Bitcoin Hovers Near Max Pain

Bullish skew in Bitcoin options

The Bitcoin options had a put/call ratio of 0.28, meaning calls outnumbered puts by a wide margin. That's a bullish skew — traders were betting on upside. The max pain price, where the most options expire worthless, sat at $64,000. Bitcoin's spot price of $63,800 was tantalizingly close, but not quite there. If the price had pushed above $64,000 by expiry, many call sellers would have been forced to deliver. It didn't.

Ethereum options show more caution

Ethereum's options told a different story. The put/call ratio was 0.63, still tilted toward calls but far more balanced. Max pain was $1,850, and ETH was trading around $1,890 — slightly above that level. That means more puts expired in the money than if the