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Ahead Of The Curve
17 Feb 2025

Broad risk aversion

Traders keep a risk-averse profile, pushing yields, trading volumes, volatilities, and ETF flows to multi-month lows. This dormant period is a reflection of traders threading carefully added uncertainty post Trump.
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A sleepy sideways market
Low volatility reigns as BTC booked a -2% loss for the week, while ETH showed some rare relative strength with its first positive week since mid January. ETH has gained from a rotation out of SOL following the weekend’s controversy over Argentina’s Javier Milei endorsing the Solana-based memecoin LIBRA, which crashed 95% from a peak market cap of $4.5bn. Risk-averse traders have sent yields, volatility, and volumes to multi-month lows. A pro-crypto Trump era still bodes very well for Bitcoin and the industry as a whole, but periods of short term uncertainty can still render market activity muted.
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