{"id":310480,"date":"2025-11-24T08:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T08:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/310480\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T08:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T08:32:08","slug":"40b-in-etf-volume-signals-institutional-capitulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/310480\/","title":{"rendered":"$40B in ETF Volume Signals Institutional Capitulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 11 U.S.-listed spot bitcoin ETFs shattered trading records last week, with cumulative volumes surpassing $40.32 billion, indicating likely institutional capitulation.<\/p>\n<p>BlackRock&#8217;s IBIT led the industry with $27.79 billion in trading volume, accounting for nearly 70% of the total, <a href=\"https:\/\/sosovalue.com\/bigChart\/Etf_NASDAQ_IBIT?title=iShares%20Bitcoin%20Trust(IBIT)&amp;coin=BTC&amp;page=usBTC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to<\/a> data source SoSoValue.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday alone, these funds recorded over $11.01 billion in trading volume, with BlackRock&#8217;s IBIT\u00a0contributing $8 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Capitulation<\/p>\n<p>The record-setting activity comes hand-in-hand with a plunge in bitcoin&#8217;s price and large redemptions, pointing to institutional capitulation \u2013 the rush by investors to exit the fading bets.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin&#8217;s price has dropped 23% this month to $86,700, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/price\/bitcoin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to CoinDesk data<\/a>, falling to nearly $80,000 on some exchanges last week. BlackRock&#8217;s IBIT\u00a0has also fallen to its lowest level since April.<\/p>\n<p>BTC&#8217;s price slide has pushed most ETF holders underwater, as the weighted-average entry price for holders is above $90K, according to Bianco Research.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no surprise that the 11 ETFs have cumulatively processed record redemptions worth $3.55 billion this month.<\/p>\n<p>The record redemptions challenge the prevailing belief that these entities take long-term positions, suggesting a possibility that fears of an impending macroeconomic blowup are driving this capitulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 11 U.S.-listed spot bitcoin ETFs shattered trading records last week, with cumulative volumes surpassing $40.32 billion, indicating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[931,28,8699,112],"class_list":["post-310480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-bitcoin","tag-business","tag-etfs","tag-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}