Omkar Godbole

Omkar Godbole is a Co-Managing Editor on CoinDesk's Markets team based in Mumbai, holds a masters degree in Finance and a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) member. Omkar previously worked at FXStreet, writing research on currency markets and as fundamental analyst at currency and commodities desk at Mumbai-based brokerage houses. Omkar holds small amounts of bitcoin, ether, BitTorrent, tron and dot.

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First Mover Americas: First Leveraged Bitcoin ETF in U.S. Trades $5.5M on Day One

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for June 28, 2023.

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MicroStrategy's Bitcoin Purchases Tend to Be Short-Term Negative for Prices, Research Shows

Past data shows bitcoin tends to drop 2% on the day MSTR announces new purchases.

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CFX Drops 6% After Conflux Network Says DWF Labs Bought $18M of Its Tokens

Conflux token's dour reaction is consistent with the prevailing investor disinterest in alternative cryptocurrencies.

Andrei Grachev Managing Partner DWF LABS (LinkedIn, Modified by CoinDesk)

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TrueUSD Depegs on Binance.US, Drops to 80 Cents Against Tether

TUSD trades at a discount versus Tether as former FTX auditor Armanino's rebranded outlet The Network Firm's association with TrueUSD raises alarm bells on Crypto Twitter.

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Bitcoin Prices Topping $31.9K Would Confirm Long-Term Bullish Bias: Fairlead Strategies

The Ichimoku cloud, created by Japanese journalist Goichi Hosoda in the late 1960s, is used by traders and analysts to monitor momentum and trend direction.

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First Mover Americas: Crypto Funds See Largest Inflow in a Year

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for June 27, 2023.

BBitcoin faces headwinds (Pixabay)

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Whale Drives Ether-Bitcoin Volatility Spread Lower Ahead of Options Expiry

The spread has flipped negative with consistent institutional selling of ether calls. Some of these positions could be rolled over ahead of Friday's expiry, leading to captivating shifts in volatility, crypto exchange Deribit said.

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Markets

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Retreats Slightly From 12-Month High

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for June 26, 2023.

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Crypto Traders Eye $6.8B Bitcoin and Ether Options Expiry

Dealers are stuffed with record negative gamma in BTC. With only a little move in the spot price, "we could witness fireworks," one observer said.

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Markets

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Might Take a Breather

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for June 23, 2023.

The TBD announcement was made at the Bitcoin 2023 conference in Miami. (Frederick Munawa)