The market's expectation of a rate cut maintains the optimism in the digital currency market. BTC ETF continues to receive capital inflows from leading institutions, and the recent approval of the ETF has attracted great attention from the community. Although ETH is a little weak in this regard, the flow from TradFi is still very small, and it even has to continue to face the selling pressure brought by Grayscale ETHE. However, its recent rise in price relative to BTC is still an active topic in recent days. It once touched 2700 yesterday and was immediately reported by the media, but the strong resistance from above could not wait to give up the gains, and after the intraday shock, it finally closed almost flat.

Source: TradingView

Source: Deribit (as of 24 SEP 16: 00 UTC + 8)

The implied volatility showed a positive correlation with the rise and fall of the benchmark locally. After a wave of price correction, it quickly steepened downward, causing the front end to fall back to the low percentile range of the past three months. This is consistent with the range-bound shocks in recent days and the declining actual volatility index, which means that Vol Premium still exists, but we need to be careful about the risks at the tail, especially in the upward direction.

Source: SignalPlus

Source: SignalPlus

From the perspective of volatility Skew, we can clearly see the impact of transactions in the past 24 hours on the slope of the surface. Specifically, the selling of BTC put options at the end of September confirmed the market's confidence in short-term price stability, and also expressed a bullish view in the form of a bullish spread; but on the other hand, the large demand for 55k Put at the end of October caused the surface to rotate to the bearish side in the middle section, becoming the focus of market discussion. The trading volume on the ETH side was also concentrated in September and the end of October. The selling of 2.3k Put at the end of October responded to the demand for BTC, reflecting the market's divergence in cross-currency correlation. However, perhaps it was ETH's unexpected recent performance that made the bullish demand in September stronger and pushed the Skew of that expiration date to a local high.

Source: SignalPlus，BTC Vol Skew & Flow

Source: SignalPlus，BTC Vol Skew & Flow

Source: SignalPlus，ETH Vol Skew & Flow

Source: SignalPlus，ETH Vol Skew & Flow