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MSTR stock functions as a leveraged bet on Bitcoin volatility rather than a traditional software company, driving extreme derivatives trading interest

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"MSTR has long ceased to be the stock of a software company and has become the main exchange-traded way to make a leveraged bet on Bitcoin. Traders are not trading Saylor's business, but the volatility of cryptocurrency through options and futures on his shares"

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