Insurance for Cryptotraders: Meet Hedge Platform Hedge.pro

November 20th, 2017 at 9:33 am UTC · 4 min read

Hedge.pro offers its users different trading strategies and insures (hedges) their risks. You want to buy Bitcoin at this moment, but not sure whether it has peaked or not? Pick date, amount of your transaction and possible price drop − platform will do the rest. In case Bitcoin price goes up for 30% in a month, you will get your profits, while sacrificing small fee for the platform services.

In the other case, you might lose your money—while in fact you would not, as Hedge.pro would cover currency price drop for the very same fee, allowing you to be safe from serious price drops. Trader pays different amount of fees depending on the factors mentioned above, so it might be profitable not only for long-term traders, but for day traders too.

Cryptocurrencies are famous for their recent price surges and massive profits that usual trader could make in the last months. Yet, tremendous returns have high risks, as is the case with most of the cryptocurrency market. Huge volatility, currency price drops, fake news that affect the market, as well as failed promises. These are the main features of cryptocurrency trading market.

How does usual trader can protect itself from these risks? Investors on the stock markets have different tools for lowering risks, i.e. hedging. Yet, there are no good hedging instruments in the crypto market. There might be some, such as fiat or cryptopair exchange which are much more risky than usual hedging.

Luckily, a team from the stock market that have more than 15 years in hedging come with a solution for the crypto traders—introducing their project Hedge.pro.

Main Idea

Hedge.pro offers its users different trading strategies and insures (hedges) their risks. You want to buy Bitcoin at this moment, but not sure whether it has peaked or not? Pick date, amount of your transaction and possible price drop—platform will do the rest. In case Bitcoin price goes up for 30% in a month, you will get your profits, while sacrificing small fee for the platform services.

In the other case, you might lose your money—while in fact you would not, as Hedge.pro would cover currency price drop for the very same fee, allowing you to be safe from serious price drops. Trader pays different amount of fees depending on the factors mentioned above, so it might be profitable not only for long-term traders, but for day traders too.

The Team

Project team consists of 20 people, including professionals from stock market industry. These specialists have more than 15 years of expertise in the field. CEO of the company, Ilya Buturlin, acts as a professor of top Russian financial university. He also has vast investor and hedging experience.

Co-founder of the project, Sergei Eliseev, has great deal of experience in software development for financial markets. He has delivered many projects on Moscow Stock exchange (MOEX). Sergey played role of one of the most well-known option trading strategy specialists on the market.

Product Development

Project has gone to ICO stage on November, 15th, finishing its Pre-ICO stage. Soft cap for Hedge.pro’s ICO is $500 000, with the hard cap of $10 000 000. Token of the platform acts as utility token. Different amount of tokens gives access to company investment products and hedging options.

One of the key features of Hedge.pro project is actual existence of main product. Company have already developed trading strategies that would be used on the platform. These tools include hedging strategies, arbitrage tools and option-based trading strategies.

All of the products have low or zero risk. They have been used by the company on stock and cryptocurrency markets. Investors and clients of Hedge.pro have a chance to use same strategies for trading on any market they prefer.

Project team aims to gather money on platform technical development. Whitepaper specifies that 70% of gathered funds would be spent on the implementation of the platform. Depending on the amount of gathered funds, team also have a set of milestones.

Company aims to get more stock licenses, such as Japanese stock market license as part of second milestone. Expansion of the team for extra sales and marketing in global market is another goal for each of the milestones.

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