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CME's Bitcoin Options Open Interest Increases 10 fold in a month

16 Jun 2020 1 minute read 4 comments author_nan

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s (CME) Bitcoin (BTC) Options market has experienced a 10 fold increase in Open Interest (OI) in a month, growing from $35 million on May 11 to $373 million on June 10. Represented in yellow, CME options OI has experi...

BiKi Group Invests USD 3 Million in Kmex, a Contract Trading Platform

4 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments BitMedia Buzz

Kmex.io features a simple and friendly user interface on its crypto derivative trading platform, a leader in the new generation of contract trading platforms. Singapore — BiKi Group recently announced that its BiKi Industry Fund has made a strategic...

Interest in Bitcoin Options Rises Above $1B

11 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments author_nan

Open contracts for Bitcoin (BTC) have hit a record high, after cryptocurrency research company Skew released data on May 8 that showed that Open Interest (OI) in options had gone past $1 billion. The previous all-time high, $970 million occurred on F...

Second Largest Bitcoin Derivatives Exchange Closes Services in Japan

29 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments author_nan

BitMEX, the second largest Bitcoin derivatives exchange, has been forced to shutter its services in Japan following regulatory changes, according to a blog post published on April 28. The announcement states that amendments made to the Japan Financia...

Is FTX Token (FTT) A Good Investment? In-depth Analysis and Near to Longer-Term Expectations

3 Apr 2020 7 minute read 4 comments CryptoBoomer

Margin trading has become more and more popular in the past year. Different from 2016 or early 2017, where spot trading was technically unchallenged, nowadays, margin trading is arguably almost as popular as spot trading itself. Look at BitMex as on...

Interdax's Weekly Warriors Trading Battle Starts Friday 22:00 UTC!

28 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Interdax

Interdax's Weekly Warriors Trading Battle Starts Friday 22:00 UTC! Weekly Warriors is hosted every Friday and lasts seven days. You'll need 0.10 BTC to enter and you must trade your balance with up to 100x leverage to generate the highest profit. Par...

Pitfalls of leverage trading in crypto

23 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments MikeySeko

Any one who has traded bitcoin futures on bitmex knows all to well how extremely difficult it is and I am going to discuss the root cause and explain my experience and what I have learned to help people who have been and still are stuck in a vicious...

The psycolgical Pitfalls of Leverage Trading

23 Feb 2020 4 minute read 0 comments MikeySeko

Leverage Trading has become the allure to most people trading in the cryptocurrency for a number of factors. In 2017 bubble most people were trading spot alt-coins because effectively trading more as a stock market environment. Looking value areas to...

The Black-Scholes Model: The Foundation of Modern Quantitative Finance and the Dawn of Financial Capital(ism)

13 Feb 2020 4 minute read 2 comments rhyzom

Quantitative or mathematical finance is applied mathematics which deals with modeling of financial markets and it's mostly focused in two areas - derivatives pricing and risk/portfolio management. It overlaps with the related domains of computational...

Why I Believe FMex Is A Reliable Cryptocurrency Exchange?

25 Jan 2020 2 minute read 0 comments onlycryptos

In the year 2014, Mt. Gox exchange was handling over 70% of the bitcoin transactions — and it was hacked the same year. Hopes were collapsed as investors lost their bitcoins, the price crashed, and the exchange went bankrupt while leaving a mess behi...