2025-12-25 16:30:49

The year-end blockbuster is about to unfold—over $28 billion in crypto options are expiring today, with Ethereum becoming the core stage for the bulls and bears showdown.

Key price levels have already emerged: $3000 is the critical dividing line between life and death. Breaking above requires overcoming the strong resistance at $3050, while maintaining support at $2880 is crucial on the downside. The liquidity is thin during the Christmas holiday, and once a one-sided trend starts, its power can be quite astonishing.

After understanding the situation clearly, our strategy becomes obvious:

**Buy on dips** — If the price retraces to the $2880-2900 range, it’s the golden moment to position in core assets like ETH and BTC. The underlying upward trend remains unchanged.

**Accumulate small positions in small-cap hot assets** — Some high-beta concept coins tend to move first. You can use funds that don’t affect your main holdings to pre-accumulate, waiting for the wind to turn.

**Stay calm and watch the show** — The huge volatility in derivatives markets is essentially the transfer of wealth between bulls and bears. We hold spot assets, block out the noise, and let options traders battle each other, taking only our rightful gains. Survive first, then seek profits.

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CryptoTarotReader

· 2025-12-28 16:28

$28 billion is due in a concentrated manner, which is the big dish at the end of the year, and ETH has to harden at 3,000 Retail investors are really comfortable buying the bottom here, but they are afraid that when liquidity dries up, they will dive directly, and who will still watch the market during Christmas I chose to lie flat, hold the goods still, and let these options boys cut each other, anyway, I don't believe that the underlying logic will change If 2880 really falls, I have to grasp it, and I won't regret it for a year Concept coins have long been incomprehensible, or honestly hoard mainstream coins, stable

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GamefiGreenie

· 2025-12-27 02:01

28 billion options explosion, this time really depends on who can survive until the New Year

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FlashLoanLord

· 2025-12-25 17:01

28 billion options expire, this wave is truly stimulating, ETH is dancing on the brink of life and death.

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MetaNomad

· 2025-12-25 17:00

$28 billion worth of options expiring, this time it's really going to be a fierce battle. Blocking out the noise is the key.

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BlockTalk

· 2025-12-25 16:54

28 billion options are pouring in, who is the leek and who is the sickle? --- If 2880 can't hold, I'll just sell and buy a house instead. --- In this market, still daring to play derivatives, really have lived enough. --- Buying on dips sounds great, but when it hits 2880, who dares to bottom fish? Haha. --- Options players harvest each other, we just hold spot assets for stable income—that's the way to live. --- Low liquidity is the best opportunity for institutions to harvest retail investors, be careful. --- If 3000 doesn't break, I'll keep lying flat; only when it breaks is the real opportunity. --- High Beta coins, it feels like they're all about to crash this time. Last year's tricks, just changing shells. --- Stay alive first, then seek profits—this saying is more useful than all technical analysis. --- Waiting for Christmas holiday dip, the moment to scoop up bargains is coming.

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GweiTooHigh

· 2025-12-25 16:54

28 billion options expire, this round depends on how the Fed performs, feels like blood will flow in five steps again

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