At 7:05 a.m. ET (12:05 UTC) Nov. 15, Coinglass measured Bitcoin (BTC) options open interest at $31.41 billion, 2.07% higher than its $30.78 billion reading a day earlier.
Options volume totaled about $9.19 billion over the same 24-hour period. An earlier EconoTimes Bitcoin options report put open interest at $28.36 billion on Nov. 6.
Open interest reflects positions that remain open at a given time, while the volume figure tracks trading across the day. Calls represented 55.42% of open interest, compared with 44.58% for puts. Puts accounted for 62.99% of volume, versus 37.01% for calls, Coinglass data showed.
The highest-volume Deribit contracts were puts at $65,000, $58,000 and $50,000, all expiring Nov. 27. By open interest, the leading Deribit contracts were a Dec. 25 $80,000 call, a $60,000 put and a $100,000 call.
