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
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
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
Deribit is a crypto-derivatives site featuring bitcoin futures and bitcoin options. Its a pretty cool site that offers some unique features unavailable to retail users in fiat economies. From a retail user’s perspective, being able to enter limit orders based… Continue Reading
Deribit recently announced they have suffered losses due to liquidations triggered by margin calls. Essentially what happened was as the market prices changed, margin calls and forced liquidations were triggered, and the market did not have enough liquidity to fill… Continue Reading
