Exactly one week later, CME launched
trading of Bitcoin futures contracts on their platform, which was met with a drop in Bitcoin's price.
The American exchange CME Group expects that
trading of bitcoin futures will begin in the second week of December.
Now that
the trading of Bitcoin futures is well underway, financial institutions want to track Bitcoin futures directly.
Since the opening, contracts have also notably continued trading at a premium against the price of bitcoin, which according to CoinDesk's Bitcoin Price Index (BPI), were trading above $ 19,400 when CME launched
trading of the bitcoin futures.
As reported by CoinDesk, the CFTC has already authorized
trading of bitcoin futures offered by CME Group and the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), which launched in December of last year.
Anticipation was in the air as the Chicago Mercantile Exchange became the second mainstream financial institutions to launch
trading of Bitcoin Futures contracts on their exchange.
On December 10, 2017, the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), one of the leading derivatives exchanges in the US officially launched
the trading of bitcoin futures contracts.
The multinational banking and financial services giant announced plans to launch
trading of Bitcoin futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), but the head of the institution has been no less bullish on his stance on Bitcoin.
In fact, Bitcoin exchanges are getting ready to face an upsurge in volatility when
the trading of Bitcoin futures contracts starts.
Since the opening, contracts have also notably continued trading at a premium against the price of bitcoin, which according to CoinDesk's Bitcoin Price Index (BPI) was $ 19,400 when CME launched
trading of the bitcoin futures.
Even, the CBOE's website crashed due to heavy traffic on the first day of
trading of bitcoin futures.
Today, 10 December 2017, can be a major date in the history of Bitcoins, as CBOE is going to start
the trading of Bitcoin Futures today onwards
CBOE halted
the trading of bitcoin futures twice due to surge in price.
Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) has started with
its trading of Bitcoin futures from last Sunday.
As reported by CoinDesk, the CFTC has already authorized
trading of bitcoin futures offered by CME Group and the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), which launched in December.
According to its website, the online stock brokerage firm - which launched the trading of CBOE bitcoin futures last month - opened up
trading of bitcoin futures from CME Group for customers as of Tuesday evening.
Different platforms have their own terms and conditions for
trading of Bitcoin Futures.
Thomas Peterffy, chairman of the broker - dealer Interactive Brokers Group, expressed deep concerns about
the trading of bitcoin futures last month, saying «there is no fundamental basis for valuation of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, and they may assume any price from one day to the next.»
CBOE Global Markets, the Chicago - based options and derivatives exchange, announced Monday it'll offer
trading of its bitcoin futures product on December 11.
Spencer Bogart, head of research at Blockchain Capital, examines
the trade of bitcoin futures and what he expects for the cryptocurrency in 2018.
Cryptocurrency exchanges have been offering this option for quite some time now, where
the trade of Bitcoin futures remain largely unregulated.
Not exact matches
In the aftermath
of the
bitcoin futures rollout, MacKenzie watched the market and gave the green light for clients
of the firm to
trade only when the liquidity was just right.
Greg Dwyer, head
of business development at BitMEX, a
bitcoin derivatives exchange based in the Seychelles, talks with Business Insider executive editor Sara Silverstein about what investors should know about
trading bitcoin futures.
Interactive Brokers said in a release Monday that as
of 9:15 a.m.,
bitcoin futures trading in its accounts represented about half
of Cboe's recorded volume.
The
futures offered by Cboe Global Markets Inc., and similar contracts that start
trading in a week at at another Chicago - based exchange, CME Group Inc., may open the door to greater inflows
of institutional money, while also making it easier to bet on
bitcoin's decline.
But the
future now
trading on Cboe Global Markets Inc.'s exchange is settled in dollars, not with the delivery
of bitcoins, which impedes shorting.
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group said last week that it wanted to start
trading bitcoin futures — a move that appeared to give the cryptocurrency greater legitimacy, but that also prompted some to express fears over the implications
of bitcoin derivatives, given the low level
of regulation in the market.
The New York Stock Exchange asked SEC regulators to list five exchange -
traded funds that track
bitcoin futures on one
of its markets.
Many digital currency enthusiasts expected that the launch
of futures by the two major exchanges would pave the way for a
bitcoin exchange -
traded fund, which would likely bring even more institutional funds into cryptocurrencies.
«We have considered notes with regards to
bitcoin, but we have not had the opportunity,» said Garrett Stevens, the chief executive officer
of Exchange
Traded Concepts, which worked with REX ETF on a rejected
bitcoin futures fund.
Cboe's
bitcoin futures looked set to end their first week
of trading higher on slightly stronger demand.
Bitcoin futures also fell 10.5 percent at the Cboe,
trading at $ 15,010 as
of 4:15 p.m. New York time.
The CME said on Tuesday that it would start
trading bitcoin futures contracts before the end
of the year.
Meanwhile,
trading on margins, credit and
futures of bitcoin as an underlying asset soared from $ 2 million in 2014 to $ 543 billion in 2017.
Because
of the initial gains in the Cboe
bitcoin futures, «I think today people were anticipating a similar type
of event,» said Joe Van Hecke, founder and managing partner at Chicago - based
trading firm Grace Hall.
Trading was far less volatile than the initial 19 percent surge in Cboe bitcoin futures during their first day of trading a we
Trading was far less volatile than the initial 19 percent surge in Cboe
bitcoin futures during their first day
of trading a we
trading a week ago.
Interactive Brokers said it handled just over half
of the Cboe
bitcoin futures trading volume on the first
trading day, which saw the highest daily volume so far at 4,127 contracts in total across the products expiring in January, February and March.
Cboe's
bitcoin futures contract had a relatively smooth first week
of trading, although volume was on the light side.
Bobby Cho, head trader at major
bitcoin trading company Cumberland, a subsidiary
of DRW, pointed out that the CME
futures were
trading closer to the actual price
of bitcoin than the Cboe contract had at launch last Sunday.
Futures trading will push
Bitcoin closer to the mainstream by making it easier to
trade without the hassles
of owning it directly.
Fraud and manipulation involving
bitcoin traded in interstate commerce are appropriately within the purview
of the CFTC, as is the regulation
of commodity
futures tied directly to
bitcoin.
China National Radio, a high - level mouthpiece
of the government, has claimed OKEx illegally offered
bitcoin futures and OTC
trading.
The Commodity
Futures Trading Commission, the federal regulatory body that oversees the Bitcoin futures markets, has taken steps to reduce the risk of market manipulation and launched a website to educate t
Futures Trading Commission, the federal regulatory body that oversees the
Bitcoin futures markets, has taken steps to reduce the risk of market manipulation and launched a website to educate t
futures markets, has taken steps to reduce the risk
of market manipulation and launched a website to educate traders.
TD Ameritrade plans to monitor the liquidity and
trading of CME
bitcoin futures before deciding whether to offer service accordingly.
This astronomical growth has a lot
of people jumping into the game, especially now that both
Bitcoin futures trading and the world's first crypto - index fund (which is only open to «accredited investors» who meet certain income or net worth minimums) launched this week.
Customers must have a minimum account balance
of $ 25,000 in order to be eligible to
trade bitcoin futures.
When ETHNews spoke to representatives from TD Ameritrade, they expressed that the company will monitor the liquidity and
trading of CME
bitcoin futures before deciding whether to offer service.
Earlier, this week, TD Ameritrade also added support for the
trading of CBOE
bitcoin futures.
Cboe, one
of the companies offering
Bitcoin futures trading, also has
futures trading on stock market volatility, for example.
On December 19, 2017, E *
TRADE became the latest online brokerage platform to offer support for CBOE's
bitcoin futures, which allow traders to bet on price movements
of the digital asset.