Re: BITCOIN ¶
By: hobi50 on Mercoledì 13 Dicembre 2017 15:03
Stralcio dal FT.
Accounts placing long bitcoin trades through Interactive must post 50 per cent of the contract value as margin. With Cboe January-expiry bitcoin trading at $18,020 per contract on Tuesday, that would mean a deposit of more than $9,000, including margin required by the exchange.Given the higher risk of being short, Mr Peterffy said that, at today’s prices, margin for a single bitcoin short position would be “in the neighbourhood of $100,000” at Cboe. At CME, where the contract size will be five times larger, margin for short traders would be around half a million dollars.
Hobi