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The Bitcoin exchange‑traded fund market recorded a daily net inflow of just under one billion dollars, the largest single‑day addition this year. This event offers a timely case study for quantitative traders to examine how a sudden surge in demand for a crypto‑linked asset class impacts portfolio risk, pricing models, and short‑term trading strategies. 1. Interpreting the Inflow in a Mean‑Variance Framework A net inflow of roughly $1 billion adds a substantial amount of capital to the Bitcoin ETF segment, effectively increasing the market weight of the underlying crypto exposure. In a mean‑variance optimization, the new weight of the Bitcoin component will raise the expected return of the portfolio if the...