Seen a great deal posted about the 'largest notional' Options block trade - Aug8th 110k Puts x5k bought earlier this week ($5m spent) - a generously executed institutional trade. Aside from the ubiquitous use of notional to 'promote' size - many larger absolute blocks have taken place in the past at lower BTC Spot levels - it's revealing that $48m spent on 7k Dec 140-200k Call spreads at the same time has been somewhat overlooked even though it should not be overshadowed with greater notional and ~10x the premium spent. Additionally, the Aug8th 110k Put purchase was not all what it seemed in directional reasoning, and yet the Dec 140k-200k Call spread is difficult to argue as anything else but directionally transparent.
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Deribit Insights26.7.2025
4) One large entity with a mid-term outlook didn't care, doubling up a position taken in the Dec 140-200k Call spreads on the 18th July with another 3.5k ($25m premium spent, net $49m) on the 21st, with strong upside belief, now supported by the market resilience to absorb 80k.
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