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
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
One aspect of the Coinut trading platform that is starting to get on my nerves this morning is the inability to modify an open order. It seems the system does not provide the manual ability to modify an open order.… Continue Reading
I’ve been investing in bitcoins for the past year, but I have expertise in derivatives, and I’ve been wishing that a bitcoin derivatives market would emerge soon. I have various bitcoin investments such as funding loans on p2p sites, funding… Continue Reading
