{"id":659410,"date":"2026-09-19T14:19:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T14:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=848852"},"modified":"2026-09-19T14:19:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T14:19:54","slug":"bitcoin-traders-pile-into-calls-as-100b-derivatives-bet-builds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/19\/bitcoin-traders-pile-into-calls-as-100b-derivatives-bet-builds\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Traders Pile Into Calls as $100B Derivatives Bet Builds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/bitcoin-traders-pile-into-calls-as-100b-derivatives-bet-builds-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Options data for bitcoin on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2026.\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Bitcoin derivatives traders are carrying more than $56 billion in futures exposure and roughly $42 billion in options open interest, while bitcoin sits near $81,273. The stranger part is where the options money is leaning. Market data shows that calls control 60.74% of open interest, the biggest contracts cluster around September strikes from $70,000 to [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin derivatives traders are carrying more than $56 billion in futures exposure and roughly $42 billion in options open interest, while bitcoin sits near $81,273. The stranger part is where the options money is leaning. Market data shows that calls control 60.74% of open interest, the biggest contracts cluster around September strikes from $70,000 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":659411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-659410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}