AI Predicts BTC Path After $16B Options Expiry Clears

The biggest options expiry of the cycle has just cleared, and Bitcoin barely flinched. Roughly $15.9 billion in BTC options expired on Deribit this morning, covering 184,000 contracts. Add $2.13 billion in Ethereum options, and the combined total reaches about $16.53 billion. AI Predicts that BTC now enters a cleaner tape, with the positioning that anchored price for weeks finally out of the way. Bitcoin is trading near $84,590, up 1.41% over 24 hours. Volume has cooled to $34.31 billion, down 27.13%, which is typical once an expiry passes and traders step back. 🚨 Nearly $16 BILLION in #Bitcoin options notional expired this morning. Why does that matter? Large options expiries can influence short term price action as dealers adjust their hedges around heavily concentrated strike prices. That can contribute to: – Price gravitating… — Nebraskangooner (@Nebraskangooner) September 25, 2026 Market Intelligence: Crypto Analyst Reveals Upcoming Coinbase Listings Why Did Max Pain Sit So Far Below the Price? Max pain for this expiry sat between $75,000 and $78,000. Bitcoin spent the week trading well above it. Max pain is the level where the largest number of contracts expire worthless. It ...