What do crypto traders expect from Bitcoin given Donald Trump’s imminent inauguration?
Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election was one of the main events for the crypto market in 2024. Still, the newly elected president actively supported the coin industry and promised to bring order to the situation with it. For this purpose, the politician declared his readiness to fire SEC Chairman Gary Gensler, to approve adequate regulation of the blockchain sphere and even to create a national Bitcoin reserve. And since the presidential inauguration is less than two weeks away, it affects the activity of cryptocurrency traders.

Analysts are indeed expecting major gains for the market in 2025. This is confirmed by fresh forecasts on crypto from the experts of Bernstein Company.
First of all, they expect Bitcoin to grow to the level of 200 thousand dollars, as well as the approval of cryptocurrency as a universally recognised asset among companies, financial institutions and even states. Thanks to this, the demand for coins will increase significantly, which will obviously affect the rates.

Buying cryptocurrency by investors
Although the U.S. may not be able to move to cryptocurrency accumulation in 2025, this initiative will be enough to establish the trend. In other words, large companies and entire countries may start buying BTC for fear of missing out on the new trend and being among the catching up.
What will happen to Bitcoin after Trump’s victory?
As experts note, the behaviour of traders on the major cryptocurrency options and futures exchange Deribit speaks of positive sentiment in the market. Still now there is increased activity with options on Bitcoin, whose strike price is at the level of 110-120 thousand dollars. Accordingly, the participants of trades allow the probability of the coin’s growth to this level.
Options are instruments that give the right to buy or sell an asset at a fixed price. Put options allow you to sell the asset when expecting a fall in value, while call options are needed to buy when forecasting growth.
In the crypto market, options are used for risk management and speculation. That is, in general, it is quite a popular tool among traders.
According to The Block’s sources, call options with an exercise price of $120,000 remain the most popular today. The nominal open interest in this instrument is $1.52 billion, which indicates demand from investors.
The put-call ratio, which compares the volumes of the respective options, has dropped to 0.24. And since a ratio below 1.0 indicates traders’ preference for call options over puts, traders are now really waiting for a positive scenario for the crypto market.

Newly elected US President Donald Trump buys burgers with bitcoins
A report from representatives of the Amberdata platform suggests that the imminent inauguration of Donald Trump could be a catalyst for Bitcoin and the coin market as a whole. Here’s a rejoinder to that.
Trump’s inauguration and the days that follow present great opportunities for optimistic statements or policies that could further push Bitcoin higher. This forecast suggests that new BTC highs will be reached just a few months after Trump officially takes office.
The futures market also hints at an improvement in traders’ expectations of the situation in the crypto. Still, funding rates on long positions for Bitcoin and Efirium are at 10 per cent per annum.
According to Ryan Lee, chief analyst at Bitget Research, all of this “points to a stable environment with potential for further market growth.” According to him, there is also an improvement in overall liquidity now.
There are various dynamics in the cryptocurrency market that are shaping the outlook for Bitcoin and Etherium. In particular, we’re talking about the total capitalisation of stablecoins, which increased by $3 billion last week.

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BRN analyst Valentin Fournier also voiced his opinion in a conversation with journalists.
The period of festive lull is over and institutional interest is growing again. This could be the basis for a powerful rally – especially against the backdrop of expectations of President Donald Trump’s inauguration on 20 January.
Positive about the near future for the crypto market was also shared by JPMorgan experts. According to their data, Bitcoin and gold will continue to be the most popular assets for so-called “depreciation transactions”. We are talking about trading operations, with the help of which the investor protects himself from the decline in the value of fiat currencies due to inflation, growing government debt or geopolitical problems.
Here’s a line from analyst Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou.
The rise in gold prices over the past year has far exceeded the changes driven by dollar movements and real bond yields. There is a possibility that this indicates the relevance of the so-called depreciation trade.
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