Bitcoin 15% futures basis 'insane' as BTC price sees record daily close
2024-12-12
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Bitcoin BTCUSD saw its highest daily close in history on Dec. 11 as six-figure BTC price action came back with a bang.
BTC price forecast sees new all-time high in “coming days”
Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView confirmed BTCUSD sealing its latest daily candle at around $101,200.
On Bitstamp, this matched the close from Dec. 8 to become the highest ever recorded, with bulls pulling away from local lows of $94,000 seen earlier in the week.
“The crucial level is still defined on $BTC,” trader, analyst and entrepreneur Michaël van de Poppe, summarized in his latest analysis on X. 

Commenting, market observers noted continued market stability accompanying the latest trip to $100,000 and beyond.
“Bitcoin quietly just had its highest daily close ever,” Charles Edwards, founder of quantitative Bitcoin and digital asset fund Capriole Investments, wrote in an X post on Dec. 12. 
Edwards referred to the cleansing of leveraged positions which resulted from snap market volatility this week and last.
Shorts felt the heat on the rebound, with combined 24-hour crypto liquidations at $270 million at the time of writing, per data from monitoring resource CoinGlass.
Bitcoin futures speculation noticeably absent
Continuing, Zaheer Ebtikar, co-founder of crypto fund Split Capital, flagged additional data supporting the lack of excessive market risk.
Despite Bitcoin circling all-time highs, he noted, its futures basis remained unusually low.
“I can't explain to you how absolutely insane this image is,” he told X followers alongside an illustrative chart.
The futures basis refers to the difference in price between spot and futures market pricing, measured as a percentage of spot. In Bitcoin bull markets where all-time highs occur, the basis can reach 30% or more, reflecting increased speculation over BTC price growth to come. 
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