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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Markets

Ether Erases Early Losses, Faces Resistance Above $2K

"We would add exposure if ether can confirm a breakout above its 50-day MA," one chart analyst said.

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Bitcoin Dips Below $32K as Fed Rate-Hike Bets Rise, Gold Remains Resilient

"It's hard to read too much into the price action currently while we're still stuck in this range," one observer said.

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India's ICICI Bank Stops Customers From Making Overseas Crypto Investments

ICICI Bank is telling customers not to use foreign remittances to invest in cryptocurrencies.

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Fed's Bullard Says Time Is Right to Scale Back Stimulus; Bitcoin Unmoved

The Fed's taper talk presents downside risk to liquidity-addicted financial markets.

St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard

Markets

Bitcoin's Range Play Likely to End With Bullish Breakout: Analyst

"Intermediate-term momentum has been improving based on the MACD histogram," one analyst said.

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Bitcoin Listless as New 'Bearish Crossover' Looms

Bitcoin's long-term moving averages are about to produce yet another bearish crossover.

Annotated bitcoin daily price chart.

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Synthetix Rallies as DeFi Protocol Announces Layer 2 Launch

"SNX's upside is in part supported by the latest update from the team in relation to the planned collaboration with Optimism," one analyst said.

Synthetix is used to create synthetic versions of stocks like Apple, Google and Coinbase.

Markets

Traders Make Money Selling 'Strangles' as Bitcoin Goes Quiet

A strangle is essentially a bet that bitcoin’s price won’t break out anytime soon.

Bitcoin options traders are betting the market waters will stay calm.

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Reflation-Trade Rethink Keeps Bitcoin Under Pressure

Reflation bets are those that benefit from a pickup in economic growth and inflation.

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Bitcoin Price Consolidation May Be Nearing the End, Indicator Suggests

The cryptocurrency saw big moves in December and April after the Bollinger bandwidth fell to 0.15.

BTCUSD daily bollinger