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Bitcoin futures open interest in 2020

The dollar value of every open bitcoin futures position on the major venues, with CME on its own.

Futures open interest, major venues opened 2020 at $2,915,256,412 (August 1, 2020) and closed at $5,779,634,947 (December 31, 2020), up 98.3%. The high was $5,915,128,568 on December 29, 2020 and the low $1,867,375,979 on September 6, 2020.

Futures open interest, major venues, month by month in 2020

MonthMonth end
August 2020$2,550,578,938
September 2020$2,066,807,879
October 2020$3,164,502,960
November 2020$3,917,523,031
December 2020$5,779,634,947

Open interest is the value of every futures contract still open: every long matched by a short. It rises when traders add leverage and falls when they close, or are forced to close, positions.

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