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BofA sums it up: "Our view is that concerns of a crypto winter are unfounded and that those confused about why digital assets are not outperforming traditional assets should remember that digital assets are faced with many of the same headwinds as traditional assets: higher than-expected inflation, higher rates and increased recession risk".
...and yes, BTC is NASDAQ and NASDAQ is BTC.
People have been talking about the institutional bid in BTC for years, but it simply isn't showing up. MSTR and El Salvadors prop bets are obviously not enough. Given the latest volatility explosion in cryptos, we find it unlikely the institutional buyers will start showing up. They are busy trying to manage equity volatility...and are not looking for even more volatility.
Correlation of weekly returns
Looks like a sentiment undershoot...
Or at least very close to one....Chart shows the average percentile of 16 different sentiment indicators
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If the BTC vs NASDAQ correlation perfection is to continue, BTC looks to be the catch up trade here...
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Implied volatility of 3-month atms
Large-cap, high implied volatility stocks that do not have earnings events. GS derivs strategy: "Overwrite with June 10% out-of-the-money call"
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We often come back to the fact most people tend to buy protection too late, ending up buying rich options in terms of volatility (and often direction). Yesterday, in our thematic crypto email, we reminded our readers: "Chasing crypto vols here is a very late trade..." Fast forward to today and ETH tails have reset big. Tables show May 27 ETH downside puts yesterday compared to today. It is expensive to panic...
BofA sums it up: "Our view is that concerns of a crypto winter are unfounded and that those confused about why digital assets are not outperforming traditional assets should remember that digital assets are faced with many of the same headwinds as traditional assets: higher than-expected inflation, higher rates and increased recession risk".
...and yes, BTC is NASDAQ and NASDAQ is BTC.
Correlation of weekly returns
Looks like a sentiment undershoot...
Or at least very close to one....Chart shows the average percentile of 16 different sentiment indicators
MiamiCoin crypto lost 88 percent of its value in less than a year.
The ‘CityCoin’ promoted by Mayor Francis Suarez is currently worth $0.0044
If the BTC vs NASDAQ correlation perfection is to continue, BTC looks to be the catch up trade here...
Amidst the recent crypto bear market, Sanford Bernstein believes there’s further downside ahead. "Crypto assets are likely to continue trading in correlation with tech-equity markets until we reach some point of equilibrium on rates and inflation. The bottom is hard to predict but there is more room to decline given the recent setbacks (such as Luna) not fully digested and the impact it could have on trading volumes of liquid market participants. While the industry has since changed from the 2018-19 bear market, having created real & credible applications, speculation was still a main driver and there are still unsustainable yields/layers of leverage that need to be digested. We’d suspect this raises further regulatory backlash too. So while poor liquidity and volumes would mean sideways to declining markets from here, we still see opportunities. Particularly in Ethereum given its transition towards proof of stake in 2H. Given the rising inflationary nature of alternate Layer 1 networks, Ethereum might emerge as the first smart contract chain to establish a monetary premium for its native token and could significantly outperform its competitors" (Sanford Bernstein)
Looks like storing "it" digitally or physically doesn't matter. It doesn't work at the moment...
Bitcoin skew has steepened during the panic last week. Sure, we are down from the peak panic levels, but even at these levels, people are still paying rather expensive levels for downside protection. We find net short skew as interesting vol plays, and for the directional players that are looking to get long/add to longs, selling downside offers interesting premium. Obviously these positions must be managed dynamically.
The extreme pick up in crypto vols has faded, but vols are far from cheap. The panic levels we saw were not sustainable, outlined in our note, Crypto panic comes with a price, last week. Vols here remain rather elevated. Depending on your directional preference, using still elevated vols looks attractive, especially for the crowd that plans to stay in this for the longer term.
Never forget, Bitcoin is a risk on/off asset...
ETH is trading right on the big 2k level. Short term resistance at 2200 and support at 1800. We are not getting excited until we break out of this short term consolidation.
If this is the bounce, we ask ourselves how a possible new leg lower looks like? Resistance levels are 30k and 32k. Support is the 26k level (recent panic lows basically). Note the short term 21 day moving average is still way higher. This only shows the magnitude of the recent implosion.
Imagine having 50-100% worse Sharpe than Bitcoin this year...
The selloff in TerraUSD seems to be an isolated incident as other stablecoins have been able to maintain their peg at $1.00 NAV. Table shows closing and low prices of selected stablecoins.
We often come back to the fact most people tend to buy protection too late, ending up buying rich options in terms of volatility (and often direction). Yesterday, in our thematic crypto email, we reminded our readers: "Chasing crypto vols here is a very late trade..." Fast forward to today and ETH tails have reset big. Tables show May 27 ETH downside puts yesterday compared to today. It is expensive to panic...
BTC and NASDAQ continue moving in tandem. Let's see if NASDAQ can bounce some more and surprise all the new bear BTC experts...
Nothing new, but worth pointing out again that daily average NFT sales were 92% below their peak in September, according to NonFungible.com...That is a crash. The "crash" already happened at the end of last year.
"Amazon once drew down 95%, Bitcoin has drawn down ~ 85% multiple times, and there is a laundry list of shitcoins that have lost 99.9% of their value. Just because something goes down in value a substantial amount during bear markets or liquidity crisis doesn’t mean they have no future value. With that said, it’s likely that 99% of non-bitcoin projects will go to zero for various reasons" (Anthony Pompliano)
Another interesting chart via Stifel's Bannister worth thinking about.
Nothing overly surprising, but Stifel does at great chart job. As we often come back to; it is the delta of things that matter.
Stifel's Bannister continues on the bitcoin implosion. He basically writes that BTC is GDP sensitive, and expects a capitulation BTC drop ahead as PMI manufacturing index will fall according to strategist. Chart showing the "implied" BTC price...
Stifel's macro guru Bannister outlines a few interesting bullets:
1. We monitor several factors which we believe will mark the capitulatory low for stocks. One on that long list is Bitcoin...which we believe still has downside to about $15,000 (though for stocks much less downside, in our view, only ~5% at most)
2. Sinking money M2 supply weighs on equities...but even more so on BTC
3. BTC is GDP sensitive, so watch PMI manufacturing index closely "...indicating that a last, capitulatory Bitcoin drop may be still ahead."
4. Tighter financial conditions should weaken BTC
5. Bitcoin falls when ERP rises
In summary he writes that BTC is late to the capitulation in risk assets and that the wash out he sees coming for BTC will help time the equity low. Note the BTC chart is log scaled.
Fed's BS lifts all boats, crypto included. Regular readers of TME are familiar with the Fed BS "delta" vs BTC chart. Bitcoin has been "discounting" the delta of Fed's balance sheet for a while already. Second chart shows BTC on a log scale.
Both BTC and ETH skew has gone into extreme "fear" mode. The crowd is paying up for puts, taking skew to new recent extremes. This is what contagion fear looks like...
