Gate News message: The Bitcoin price has recently been continuously ranging between $65,000 and $75,000, with the market lacking a clear direction. In addition to geopolitical conflicts and the macro interest-rate environment, it is believed that institutional investors’ options strategies are an important factor limiting a breakout.
Since mid-February 2026, Bitcoin has repeatedly tested the $70,000 level but failed to break through. On the one hand, safe-haven demand driven by the Middle East situation provides bottom support to the price, making it difficult to fall below $65,000; on the other hand, rising U.S. Treasury yields weaken the appeal of risk assets and curb upside room.
The deeper cause comes from the derivatives market. Tesseract’s CEO, James Harris, noted that institutional funds have continued to sell out-of-the-money call options with higher strike prices throughout the first quarter, extracting additional returns by collecting premiums. This “covered call option” strategy is built on spot holdings, enabling investors to earn steady returns even in a sideways market.
This operation shifts a large amount of risk to market makers. Since market makers hold positive gamma positions, they need to buy when prices fall and sell when prices rise to maintain risk neutrality. This hedging behavior, in an invisible way, creates a “sell high and buy low” mechanism, thereby compressing the price volatility range and keeping Bitcoin in a long-term ranging structure.
Market data also corroborates this phenomenon. Bitcoin’s 30-day implied volatility index (BVIV) has recently fallen to about 56%, contrasting with rising volatility in stocks and commodities, indicating that market volatility is being artificially suppressed.
At present, Bitcoin’s trend is not only influenced by the macro environment, but is also deeply tied to the structure of derivatives. When yield strategies dominate capital flows, the price may continue to hold a range. Whether it can break through the key range in the future will depend on changes in capital allocation and whether volatility is released again. (CoinDesk)
Artículos relacionados
MicroStrategy compra 34,164 BTC en una semana, gastando 2,540 millones de dólares: la tercera mayor compra de la historia, con un total de tenencias de 815,000 supera a BlackRock
Tether mantiene una participación del 8.2% en la empresa de finanzas de minería de Bitcoin Antalpha tras su OPI de $49.3M
Los ETP cripto registran entradas semanales récord de $1.4B a medida que el rally de Bitcoin extiende el optimismo
Empery Digital Reduce Sus Tenencias de Bitcoin en 20 BTC; La Posición Total Baja a 2,914
La producción de minería de bitcoin de Ionic Digital cae un 14,9% en marzo; las tenencias suben hasta 2.815 BTC
Los ETF de Bitcoin atraen casi 1.000 millones de dólares en una sola semana, estableciendo el mayor récord de entradas de capital en una sola semana desde enero