Ether options OI rises to $5.94B as $2,500 call leads volume

Ether options open interest rose 1.49% from the previous day. Calls led both open interest and trading volume, signaling a bullish tilt. Medium-term positioning and short-term trading in the Ether options market both leaned toward upside exposure, with calls accounting for the larger share. As of Oct. 19, Ether options open interest totaled $5.94 billion, up 1.49% from $5.85 billion the previous day. Options trading volume stood at $996.87 million. Calls represented 62.15% of open interest, compared with 37.85% for puts. By trading volume, calls accounted for 53.56% and puts for 46.44%. Call dominance in both measures indicated an upside bias across medium-term positions and short-term activity, although the volume split was narrower than the open-interest split. The largest open-interest contracts were the Deribit $3,200 call expiring Dec.

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