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Bitcoin Leverage Ratio Sinks As Market De-Risks Amid Uncertainties

Keshav Verma
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On-chain data shows the Bitcoin leverage ratio has gone down recently as market de-risks amid macro uncertainties.

Bitcoin Leverage Ratio Sharply Falls Down Over The Past Week

According to the latest weekly report from Glassnode, the BTC futures open interest leverage ratio has decreased in the last week as investors de-risk their holdings.

The “futures open interest leverage ratio” is an indicator that’s defined as the ratio between the market open contract value and the total market cap of Bitcoin.

In simpler terms, what this metric tells us is the degree of leverage that an average user is currently making use of in the BTC market.

When the value of the ratio increases, it means users are increasing their leverage as they take on more risk. High values of the indicator may imply that the Bitcoin market is overleveraged at the moment. And thus, it may be more prone to a liquidation squeeze event.

On the other hand, low values of the metric mean investors are keeping their positions at low risk right now. The market is generally more stable during these periods as probability of deleveraging events decreases.

Related Reading | JPMorgan Puts Bitcoin At $150,000 In The Long-Term, But What About Its ‘Fair Value’?

Now, here is a chart that shows the trend in the Bitcoin futures open interest leverage ratio over the past year:

Bitcoin Leverage Ratio

Looks like the value of the indicator has declined recently | Source: The Glassnode Week Onchain - Week 7, 2022

As you can see in the above graph, the Bitcoin leverage ratio seems to have sharply fallen off over the last seven days.

However, unlike many other deleveraging events over the course of 2021, this recent decrease wasn’t marked by a liquidation squeeze.

Related Reading | Bitcoin Active Addresses Surpass 1.02M Three Days In A Row, What Happened Last Time

The main push behind this trend looks to have been investors opting to de-risk their holdings by closing out their futures positions.

The report notes that futures users may be showing this behavior in response to the many macro uncertainties currently looming over the Bitcoin market.

As the current values of the indicator are very close to a range that has usually meant a more stable market, the price of the crypto may not show much volatility in the coming days.

BTC Price

At the time of writing, Bitcoin’s price floats around $44.2k, up 2% in the last seven days. Over the past month, the crypto has gained 3% in value.

The below chart shows the trend in the price of BTC over the last five days.

Bitcoin Price Chart

BTC's price seems to have shown some sharp upwards momentum over the last twenty-four hours | Source: BTCUSD on TradingView
Featured image from Unsplash.com, charts from TradingView.com, Glassnode.com
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Keshav is currently a senior writer at NewsBTC and has been attached to the website since June 14, 2021.

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Keshav has been writing for many years, first as a hobbyist and later as a freelancer. He has experience working in a variety of niches, even fiction at one point, but the cryptocurrency industry has been the longest he has been attached to.

In terms of official educational qualifications, Keshav holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics from one of the premier institutes of India, the University of Delhi (DU). He started the degree with an aim of eventually making a career in Physics, but the onset of COVID led to a shift in plans. The virus meant that the college classes had to be delivered in the online-mode and with it came free time for him to explore other passions.

Initially only seeking to make some beer money, Keshav unexpectedly landed clients offering real projects, after which there was no looking back. Writing was something he had always enjoyed and to be able to do it for a living was like a dream come true.

Keshav completed his Physics degree in 2022 and has been focusing on his writing career since, but that doesn’t mean his passion for Physics has ended. He eventually plans to re-enter university to obtain a masters degree in the same field, but perhaps only to satiate his own interest rather than for using it as a means to find employment..

Keshav has found blockchain and its concepts fascinating ever since he started going down the rabbit-hole back in 2020. On-chain analysis in particular has been something he likes to research more about, which is why his NewsBTC pieces tend to involve it in some form.

Being of the science background, Keshav likes if concepts are clear and consistent, so he generally explains the indicators he talks about in a bit of detail so that the readers can perhaps come out having understood and learnt something new.

As for hobbies, Keshav is super into football, anime, and videogames. He enjoys football not only as a watcher, but also as a player. For games, Keshav generally tends towards enjoying singleplayer adventures, with EA FC (formerly FIFA) being the only online game he is active in. Though, perhaps due to being ultra-focused on the game, he is today a semi-pro on the EA FC scene, regularly participating in tournaments and sometimes even taking back prize money.

Because of his enthusiasm for anime and games, he also self-learned Japanese along the way to consume some of the untranslated gems out there. The skill didn’t merely remain as just a hobby, either, as he put it to productive use during his exploration for small-time gigs at the start of COVID, fulfilling a couple of Japanese-to-English translation jobs.

Keshav is also big into fitness, with agility and acceleration-related workouts making a big part of his program due to the relevance they have in football. On top of that, he also has a more traditional strength based program for the gym, which he does to maintain an overall fitness level of his body.

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