The US spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds have experienced their second week of over $ 500 million in the leading outflow till 21 February.
As data From Sosowale, 12 spot BTC ETFS recorded $ 559.41 million in net outflow in the last week, continuing negative speed from last week, when he watched $ 585.65 million in pure redemption.
In particular, the US BTC ETFS started the week in out of the outflow with $ 60.63 million from 18 February to 21 February, which reverses the positive flow seen on the last trading day of the East week. In the next two days, negative speed intensified, with an increased outflow of $ 71.07 million and $ 364.93 million, the most pure outflow was later seen in February. The trend continued on Friday, 21 February, with investors withdrawing an additional $ 62.77 million.
Most of the outflows that came from GBTC of Grassscale that day were seen exiting $ 60.08 million funds because it continued its outfit streak after its conversion from a trust structure. Bitwaiz Bitb and FBTC of Fidelity also contributed to negative speeds, respectively with a outflow of $ 16.58 million and $ 12.47 million. Meanwhile, Blackrock’s Ibit returned to the positive flow, receiving $ 21.64 million, while Hodl of Vaneck recorded a slight advantage of $ 4.71 million.
The total weekly trading volume for these investment vehicles was $ 10.72 billion.
Since 6 February, Bitcoin ETF recorded $ 1.1 billion in pure outflows, making the worst month for withdrawal since its inception on February 2025 a year ago. Despite the negative menstruation, BTC ETF managed to record pure flow on a few days: 4, 5, 7 and 14.
Bitcoin ETF outflow investors enhance concerns
Bitcoin ETF outflow has expressed concern about transferring the spirit of the investor.
Marcus Thilalen, Head of Research in 10X Research, told Most spots bitcoin ETF investors are mainly using these products for arbitration strategies rather than long holdings. He said that only 44% flows are actually bound by long -term investments. This suggests that the actual demand for bitcoin as long -term property in diverse portfolio may be less than that of the media usually painted.
Commenting on the recent weekly outflow from BTC ETF, Kadan Stadelman, CTO on COMODO platform, Crypto.NUS reported that while Bitcoin is looking at the outflow of ETF capital, Gold ETF is experiencing the flow. This innings may indicate that investors are working for economic uncertainty.
Another possible indicator? Berkshire Hathaway recently revealed that this record-breaking is conducting $ 334.2 billion cash. According to Stadelman, this suggests that the company is waiting for the market dip to buy assets and goods at low prices.
Investor, adding uncertainty, Donald Trump recently said that if selected again, the US would impose mutual tariffs on almost every country. This has expressed concern about inflation and trade disruption not only among investors, but also in the Federal Reserve, as reflected in minutes of the meeting of the last week.
At the same time, bitcoin, which is often seen as a major indicator of market trends, has shown resistance and began to trend downwards. Stadelman believes that it may indicate a broad market sales, especially after Friday’s stock market declines.
“These clues are looking at bitcoin ETF investors, motivating them to transfer them to cash from ETFs,” Stadelman concluded.
