ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF (ARKB)Digital Assets | Exchange Traded Fund | Cboe US
25.72 USD
+0.70
(2.798%)
⇧
(April 17, 2026, 4 p.m.
EDT)
Short-term: ★★★★☆ | Long-term: ★★☆☆☆ | Dividends: ☆☆☆☆☆ |
Hot Take | April 19, 2026, 6:36 p.m. EDT
ARKB is operating as a speculative leveraged vehicle rather than a traditional income-generating investment. With massive call premium gathering for a 30%+ upside target by the next quarter, the market is pricing in a continuation of the Bitcoin bull run. However, the technicals show a pullback from 1-year highs (-38%), and the quantitative model predicts a slight downside drift (-1.5%) due to high kurtosis and mixed scoring on heteroscedasticity, suggesting the momentum may be exhausting or coin-flipping in the near term without a definitive trend until confirmation occurs. This is a tactical trade for volatility expansion, not a buy-and-hold position. |
| Model | MAE |
|---|---|
| AutoARIMA ✓ | 0.233106 |
| MSTL | 0.234515 |
| AutoETS | 0.234685 |
| AutoTheta | 0.242587 |
Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: AutoARIMA
| Forecast Reliability | |
|---|---|
| Score | 54% |
| H-stat | 0.90 |
| Ljung-Box p | 0.000 |
| Jarque-Bera p | 0.000 |
| Excess Kurtosis | 2.99 |
As of April 19, 2026, 6:36 p.m. EDT: Speculator positioning remains heavily skewed towards calls, particularly for the June 18, 2026 expiration, with massive out-of-the-money open interest (3.9k contracts) centered at the 26 and 38 strikes. This indicates a strong bullish theta decay play and a high-risk, high-reward gamble on continued growth. In-the-money call positioning is also dominant. Conversely, put value is concentrated in deep out-of-the-money strikes with low strike prices (19–22), suggesting hedges are placed far below the current price, which fails to protect meaningful equity in a crash scenario. The distribution heavily favors upside exposure.
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| All Time High | 59.22 |
| All Time Low | 12.873333 |
| Ask | 26.26 |
| Ask Size | 300 |
| Average Daily Volume10 Day | 3,099,820 |
| Average Daily Volume3 Month | 6,071,795 |
| Average Volume | 6,071,795 |
| Average Volume10Days | 3,099,820 |
| Beta3 Year | 0.0 |
| Bid | 25.29 |
| Bid Size | 6,500 |
| Category | Digital Assets |
| Crypto Tradeable | 0 |
| Currency | USD |
| Custom Price Alert Confidence | HIGH |
| Day High | 26.015 |
| Day Low | 25.3 |
| Display Name | ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF |
| Dividend Yield | 0.0 |
| Esg Populated | 0 |
| Exchange | BTS |
| Exchange Data Delayed By | 0 |
| Exchange Timezone Name | America/New_York |
| Exchange Timezone Short Name | EDT |
| Fifty Day Average | 23.114 |
| Fifty Day Average Change | 2.605999 |
| Fifty Day Average Change Percent | 0.11274548 |
| Fifty Two Week Change Percent | -11.513763 |
| Fifty Two Week High | 41.99 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change | -16.270002 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change Percent | -0.38747326 |
| Fifty Two Week Low | 20.66 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change | 5.0599995 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent | 0.24491769 |
| Fifty Two Week Range | 20.66 - 41.99 |
| First Trade Date Milliseconds | 1,704,983,400,000 |
| Full Exchange Name | Cboe US |
| Fund Family | 21Shares US LLC |
| Fund Inception Date | 1,704,844,800 |
| Gmt Off Set Milliseconds | -14,400,000 |
| Has Pre Post Market Data | 1 |
| Ipo Expected Date | 2,024-01-11 |
| Language | en-US |
| Legal Type | Exchange Traded Fund |
| Long Business Summary | The index is designed to reflect the performance of bitcoin in U.S. dollars. In seeking to achieve its investment objective, the trust will hold bitcoin and will value its shares daily based on the index. |
| Long Name | ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF |
| Market | us_market |
| Market State | PRE |
| Max Age | 86,400 |
| Message Board Id | finmb_1672350111 |
| Nav Price | 25.659 |
| Net Assets | 2,389,618,180.0 |
| Net Expense Ratio | 0.21 |
| Open | 25.42 |
| Previous Close | 25.02 |
| Price Hint | 2 |
| Quote Source Name | Nasdaq Real Time Price |
| Quote Type | ETF |
| Region | US |
| Regular Market Change | 0.699999 |
| Regular Market Change Percent | 2.79776 |
| Regular Market Day High | 26.015 |
| Regular Market Day Low | 25.3 |
| Regular Market Day Range | 25.3 - 26.015 |
| Regular Market Open | 25.42 |
| Regular Market Previous Close | 25.02 |
| Regular Market Price | 25.72 |
| Regular Market Time | 1,776,456,000 |
| Regular Market Volume | 3,742,139 |
| Short Name | ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF |
| Source Interval | 15 |
| Symbol | ARKB |
| Total Assets | 2,389,618,176 |
| Tradeable | 0 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Rate | 0.0 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Yield | 0.0 |
| Trailing Peg Ratio | None |
| Trailing Three Month Nav Returns | -22.35254 |
| Trailing Three Month Returns | -22.35254 |
| Triggerable | 1 |
| Two Hundred Day Average | 31.81155 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change | -6.091551 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent | -0.19148865 |
| Type Disp | ETF |
| Volume | 3,742,139 |
| Yield | 0.0 |
| Ytd Return | -22.35254 |