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Story: Investors Buying the Dip $1.5 Billion USD worth of ETH options will expire on June 25, 2021

By Steven Anderson

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Ethereum (ETH) Technicals:  EMA ribbon has been getting very tight for Ethereum on the 1-hour chart, as the price stays within tight band.

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The ETH future price forecast:  Ethereum 6h forecast From Jun 24, 9AM (CET) to Jun 24, 3PM (CET) there is a price prediction from analysts for the price of ETH / ETH-USD to…

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Those who are buying the dips believe that buying ETH at the current price will be profitable. 

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This is the time of crypto maximalism:  Sandeep Polygon (prev Matic Network):  “BTC Maximalism is of only one type, just shit post and irritate everyone.

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ETH Maximalism is of two types: Type 1 - BTC like, as mentioned above, followed by 20-30% of ETH maximalists, and they are the loudest Type 2 - Like us at OxPolygon we don’t talk…

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Many of them are like you just need to hold ETH. 

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Reportedly, On June 25, $1.5 billion USD worth of ETH options will expire, or roughly 45% of the total open interest in ETH options.

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Reportedly, the open interest in ETH options hits its all-time high of nearly $5.5 billion on May 20 soon after ETH had hit its all-time high of $4,362 on May 12.

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Selling options whether it is a put or call is better suited for institutions that have lot of capital and a high-risk tolerance. One Ether option contract represents 1 ETH.

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A put option gives owner the right to sell an underlying asset at a set price on a particular date.

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Those who set their put options to sell during the Bull Run expecting it to continually rally are now facing trouble suffering sharp losses.

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Coin Desk points to how, “A trader just learned the hard way that it’s pretty easy to lose $3 million in the volatile world of the crypto options market. “

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Community response:  To be honest Ethereum cannot be as decentralized as Bitcoin and ETH can never be a store of value because of no fixed supply.

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Bitcoin maximalist irritate the most. If you believe and trust something from within than you need to just do your job instead making unnecessary noise all the time.

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