Bitcoin is seen poised to escape from tightest trading range in two years

Bitcoin, which accounts for about 40 per cent of the estimated market value of all cryptocurrencies, traded last week within a range of about 5.4%, the narrowest since October 2020

The cryptocurrency market appears by some measures to be poised to break out of the narrowest trading range in almost two years.   
 

Based on one gauge, the leverage ratios for the two largest tokens by market value -- Bitcoin and Ether -- are at the highest on record even with prices of both down more than 50 per cent this year. That is calculated by taking the amount of open interest for perpetual swap contracts and dividing that by the amount of coins held in reserve on exchanges, according to blockchain data-site CryptoQuant. 

“Folks think the market has stabilized and