Bitcoin exchanges have difficult times in the USA. In a lot of cases, strict regulatory requirements ensure that crypto and blockchain companies censor themselves from…
Welcome to “The Art of Liquidation: Part IV”. In the last few episodes we learned how various crypto derivative exchanges handle extremely large liquidations, which…
Bitfinex will roll out x100 margin trading for Bitcoin. In the whitepaper on Leo, Bitfinex’s own crypto currency, under the heading “Upcoming projects” there was…
In the world of cryptocurrencies and especially to Bitcoin there are many interesting facts, statistics and numbers. This is due to the fact that it…
In the last two episodes we learned that some exchanges tend to socialize losses from big liquidations. The traders on the exchange have to take…
When it comes to institutional investors there are still a lot of hurdles for some of them. E.g. the data feeds, something like the Bloomberg…
Bitcoin leveraged trading is risky. Very risky. But what happens when there is an exchange enabling their customers to trade Bitcoin with x500? Well, BTX500…
A big story this week was the suicide of a Chinese Bitcoin trader who traded on x100 leverage and is assumed to lost 2,000 BTC…
Emotions And High Volatility = Problem The main problem with somebody who begins to trade in any asset-class is that there is no experience beforehand.…
If an asset is very illiquid this can lead to great volatility. The order books are thin and medium or even small market orders move…