The initiative is expected to professionalize and legitimize bitcoin as a financial asset.
The Bitcoin futures-to-spot ratio is currently at yearly lows, meaning that futures trading activity has slowed down significantly, in comparison with spot trading.
CME Group expands its crypto offerings with Bitcoin Friday options, featuring daily expiries and smaller contract sizes to improve capital efficiency for traders.
Deribit’s futures market shows that traders and investors have rested their hopes on Bitcoin and its potential growth in the coming months.
Cboe Digital’s planned launch of margin Bitcoin and Ethereum futures is set to complement its existing spot crypto market, which includes trading pairs for Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin, and USDC
A Bitcoin futures index in Argentina is a huge relief as the country is currently struggling with high inflation.
With the Bitcoin futures initiative, Acorns is implementing its philosophy of diversification as well as applying principles of long-term investing.
This year, at least 19 issuers have indicated they are looking to launch any crypto ETF. About 12 of them focus on Bitcoin.
Bitcoin price is growing along with the soaring BTC futures volume. Traders are becoming ‘modestly bearish’ on futures, according to the monitoring resource Material Indicators.
The CME micro Bitcoin futures allows retail players and individual crypto investors to deal with small-sized contracts thereby ushering more market liquidity while giving the smaller players equal exposure to a regulated environment.
The market is getting heated this week with 61.3K BTC options set to expire on Friday. This factor suggests something big is brewing with BTC price.
Bitcoin Futures contract has at this time revealed a differing behavior between hedge funds and institutional investors in a scenario that seems to stir market analysts amusements.
Yesterday, Bitcoin lost 4.4%, but bulls were striving to help it close above $12,000. And Bitcoin did, closing at $12,108. Before this correction, Bitcoin saw a 6-day run in which it gained 11.93%. However, the pullback allowed for a retest of the $11,500 level.
With Bitcoin halving set to take place on May 12 and 22 days left, institutional investors are catching the fever and can’t help taking advantage of the crypto asset’s huge opportunities.
Renaissance, which had nearly $166 billion in regulatory assets under management at the end of 2019, has “permitted” the Medallion fund to enter the Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s (CME) cash-settled Bitcoin futures market.
OKB utility token used on the OKEx trading platform experiences a significant price serge. Tokeninsight research institute foresees a positive outlook on OKB’s ecosystem development as the OKEx Empire continues to expand.