Some Bitcoin investors had hoped an ETF tied to the cryptocurrency would do what they now expect the CME's decision to do: Bring
in more institutional investors.
With more and
more institutional investors getting lured in to the market of digital tokens, retail investment also underwent exponential growth causing «cryptocurrency» to become one of the hottest search words of 2017.
The futures markets are expected to
draw more institutional investors into the Bitcoin space because it lets them hedge their exposures to protect themselves against Bitcoin's wild price swings.
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If more institutional investors strove to achieve good absolute rather than relative returns, the stock market would be less prone to overvaluation and market fads would less likely be carried to excess» Seth Klarman
«It's important to us to be seen by the marketplace as a real investment and not just a pump and dump, hence us going
for more institutional investors that aren't trying to flip their positions as soon as they become liquid,» Cohen explains.
As
more institutional investors begin to notice that traditional asset classes do not provide the diversification nor returns that they desire, they will probably move into Bitcoin.
According to Joe Van Hecke, founder and managing partner at Chicago - based trading firm Grace Hall and one of the first bidders on both exchanges, CME is a platform
with more institutional investors than Cboe has.
In the mid-term, as the South Korean and Japanese markets strengthen, and
more institutional investors emerge within the global cryptocurrency market, the price of Bitcoin will continue to increase at a rapid rate.
The company is reportedly expecting approval from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission... The star of a Bitcoin futures contract is expected to bring the
market more institutional investors, according to the CME Group.»
«It seems like another couple of weeks and everything will be normal and [bitcoin] can start growing back up again,» he concluded, adding that he
expects more institutional investors to begin entering the markets during the next bullish wave.
The upswing continued a rally that started Wednesday, when the Chicago Merchantile Exchange announced plans to offer Bitcoin futures — a move that could add
even more institutional investors to Bitcoin markets and theoretically push up prices.
«More and
more institutional investors and asset management firms are seeking to better understand the environmental and social aspects of proxies,» said Sam Pierce, president of IW Financial.
Some 50 or
more Institutional investors, or hedge funds, entered residential real estate and began buying up tens of thousands of properties.
More and
more institutional investors have made broad EM a strategic portfolio allocation, rather than a discretionary, risk on - risk off trade.
But with a futures market and options to reduce the risk profile,
more institutional investors will finally be able to start jumping in.
The CME is the world's biggest marketplace for these contracts, so its move makes it likely that
more institutional investors will pile into the Bitcoin market without actually buying Bitcoin themselves.
More institutional investors in the future correlate to significantly higher market caps, so claiming Bitcoin is «under - owned» should get long - term cryptocurrency investors excited.
It is expected that the after SegWit reaches the lock - in mark,
more institutional investors will come to the cryptocurrency market, thus sending the bitcoin price to another peak.
But analysts believe that
more institutional investors will begin to get involved with cryptocurrencies, after CME Group said it would introduce bitcoin futures contracts.
Analysts believe that once Bitcoin futures hit the markets,
more institutional investors will pour their money into it and other digital assets.
Do you think less weak hands and
more institutional investors will provide a more solid foundation for the future?