BTC Price Tanks Soon As SEC Delays Decisions on Bitcoin ETF

Bitcoin bears continue to have an upper hand with the US SEC delaying the decision on seven spot Bitcoin ETF applications from BlackRock, Fidelity, Invesco, and others. The BTC price failed to break past the 200-day moving average of $27,500, which serves as an important resistance on the upside.

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On the downside, the Bitcoin price seems to be ready to retest the support of $25,000 in the near term. During the Bitcoin price pump earlier this week, after the Grayscale victory, crypto analyst Ali Martinez had already cited the chances of BTC price manipulation. The recent price correction validates his theory.

What’s Next for Bitcoin, $690 Million worth of BTC Options to Expire?

Later today, a total of 26,000 Bitcoin options are set to expire as per the data from Greeks.live. The Put Call Ratio, which compares the number of put options (betting on a price decrease) to call options (betting on a price increase), is at 0.50.

The “max pain point” is the price at which most options contracts will expire worthless for the holders, and in this case, it’s $27,000. The total value of all these options contracts, also known as the notional value, is $690 million.

On the technical chart, Bitcoin continues to show weakness. The month of September could prove to be quite bearish for Bitcoin. As we can see in the below technical chart, the BTC price could consolidate at $26,000 for some more time, before a possible breakdown.

On the other hand, analysts are not very hopeful for Bitcoin to make new 2023 highs this year. It will be interesting to see how BTC could perform going ahead.

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