#Strategy
ETH is likely to turn POS in late September, most likely creating a fork. Currently, ETH futures are not discounted to a high degree. Once the fork is made, the forward futures will be discounted more. Deribit futures will only track the most popular coin.
Strategy 1: Swap all USDC for ETH spot, then short the September future. Past experience has shown that the price of ETH futures will drop, and by hedging the futures you can gain the forked coin without loss and the further discount caused by the fork.
Strategy 2: Deribit supports the pm. For the traders with a risk appetite, you can carry out cross-period arbitrage by going long August future and short September future. If there is a consensus expectation that September will fork, the discount will be cashed out early.
Strategy 3: For options, you can sell recent OTM around 5% PUT, and buy September OTM at 20% PUT.
You can simulate the return curve with PV.(link——greeks.live/web/pv.html?cu…)
The first strategy is more certain, and the return depends mainly on the value of the forked coin.
The second strategy has more leverage.
The third strategy is the most flexible, you can adjust the position according to your needs, for example, choose to overbuy Sep OTM options.
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Selling options under standard margin (SM) is usually charged a margin of approximately 10-15% BTC/ETH each option, which is equivalent to 7-10 times leverage.
However, for safety reasons, we generally advise our newbie users to spare enough margin for selling options.
If you are selling calls, one BTC/ETH margin for each call would be safe enough.
In total, there were over 26k ETH block trades today, almost all of which were deep OTM Calls expiring in March '23, and in the form of butterfly spreads. This brings our attention to the deep OTM Calls that have been trading hot recently.
However, because there is so much information in the option chains, the historical data does not reflect the market very well, and this is a good time to use the PlayBack replay feature, where we pull back the time to just before the last month's settlement.
After the end of the monthly settlement, a large amount of margin was released, and a large number of trades were also seen in the ETH call block around $3000, and the $3000 position grew significantly, but several price IVs with large positions were declining instead.