The weekly flow for the spot bitcoin ETF remained negative for the fourth consecutive week as macroeconomic factors continued heavy weight at the investor’s spirit.
As data From Sosowale, 12 spots bitcoin ETFS recorded another week from March 3–5, with about $ 800 million out of the funds. It follows a record outflow week, with more than $ 2.61 billion in redemption, which increases the streak of negative flows for four consecutive weeks, with a total net outflow more than $ 4.5 billion.
In particular, Bitcoin ETFS recorded a net negative flow in the last week, which began on Monday with $ 74.19 million, followed by $ 143.43 million, $ 38.3 million, $ 134.26 million, and on Friday in the largest outflow of $ 409 million.
On the last day of the week, RKB of Arch and 21 Sharas led the outflow with $ 160.03 million, with Fidelity’s FBTC closely after which withdrawn $ 154.89 million by investors. Other major ETF issuers including Blackrock’s Ibit, Grascale’s GBTC, and BitWise’s BITB, respectively, experience $ 39.85 million, $ 36.46 million and $ 18.6 million respectively. Vaenne’s Hodl was the only fund to a deer to this trend, which recorded a slight income of $ 619.55k.
Meanwhile, nine spots atherium funds also reported negative flows of two consecutive weeks, with out of $ 455 million funds, reflecting the feeling of widespread recession in the Crypto market.
Despite widespread anticipation that the White House Crypto Summit may promote the market, Bitcoin ETF continued its tendency below. Analysts credited this decline for ongoing macroeconomic concerns, especially President Donald Trump’s trade tariff and overall economic uncertainty, who appear to shake investor trust in digital assets.
Some experts suggest that strategic market changes are also contributing to selling. A popular theory is that hedge funds are capitalized on low -risk arbitration trades between Bitcoin spots ETF and CME futures. As they open trades, liquidity is drying up, increasing sales and increased ETF outflow.
Another factor affecting the recent price swings of bitcoin is Trump’s strategic bitcoin reserve and the US Digital Asset Stockpil. While many traders hoped the crypto summit would be a rapid incident, bitcoin (BTC) price dropped from $ 90,000 to $ 85,000 after signing an executive order instead.
According to Komodo’s CTO Kadan Stadelman, bitcoin ETFs are experiencing the major outflow despite the creation of a strategic bitcoin reserve due to a classic case of “buying rumors, selling news”. In such scenarios, property usually increases in anticipation of an event, but once a decline occurs after being physical.
Stadelman said speculation about the strategic bitcoin reserve began in July 2024 when Trump first mentioned the initiative. By the time the official announcement was made during Thursday’s Crypto Summit, the market had already paid its price, which led to a sale.
He said that in these situations, “Those who are less informed, connected, and ganded, often buy news and lose money.” Additionally, the summit took place during a challenging time for the market, with concerns over business tariffs, existing concerns about inflation, a slow real estate market, weak consumer expenses and existing concerns about the fall in savings.
