Recently Kraken, a popular cryptocurrency exchange, launched a futures trading platform. Their new futures contracts include short term and a perpetual contracts. Crypto traders will be familiar with their perpetual contract as its similar to those traded on Deribit and… Continue Reading
What makes Deribit useful for investors? Even if you don’t trade futures/options, the information Deribit generates can be used in a variety of ways to help improve your crypto portfolio and understand what’s happening to the crypto economy. Deribit publishes… Continue Reading
Crypto-currencies are volatile, but the market is changing. The volatility of bitcoin has been steadily decreasing throughout 2018 trading, and I expect this trend to continue. This post will evaluate some easy ways to track volatility. When evaluating volatility, we… Continue Reading
Poloniex will disable margin lending and borrowing for US customers by the end of 2018. Part of dealing with a US regulated exchange such as Poloniex is they must be compliant, and this often means less access for customers. Poloniex… Continue Reading
What are “stable coins”? Stable coins are a weird part of the cryptocurrency world. These blockchain based currencies seek to anchor their value with some widely used money such as US dollars (USD). US Dollar Tether (USDT) and US Dollar… Continue Reading
This post will describe the Portfolio Margin system used at Deribit, a bitcoin derivatives exchange. Portfolio margin is a risk-based margin policy that aligns margin requirements with the overall risk of a portfolio. Portfolio margin usually results in significantly lower margin requirements… Continue Reading
This post is about converting the price of an option to an odds format. The same methods also apply if you want to convert stock option prices to an odds format, or any other option price into any odds format… Continue Reading
CME Group and Crypto Facilities (CF) have reteamed to bring enhanced pricing information to one of the top five global cryptocurrencies. Introducing CME CF Ether-Dollar Reference Rate and CME CF Ether-Dollar Real-Time Index, both available on the CME Group website. The new… Continue Reading
Deribit users received an e-mail outlining the difference between their options contracts and the Bitmex UP contracts recently released. Here is the text of their e-mail: Last week, Bitmex introduced a new contract named UP (Upside Profit) Contract. This contract… Continue Reading
The value of bitcoin plunged 20% against the value of USD overnight, and some of the typical outcomes are happening. The rate to borrow/lend USD on Bitfinex is currently around 87%. This means someone holding $100,000 on Bitfinex is earning… Continue Reading
