Bitcoin Futures
By Mark O’Brien, Senior Broker
Typically, if you’re interested in Bitcoin, it’s for two reasons:
One is that you want to convert your dollars to Bitcoin so that you can buy products and services with it, because there’s no administrator involved in the transaction like a bank or credit card company, or a PayPal or Zelle-type of entity. That’s why it’s called a decentralized currency: only the two sides of the transaction can see it.
But unlike a currency-backed transaction – like U.S. dollar transactions – Bitcoin transactions don’t come with legal protection and they’re typically not reversible, which makes them susceptible to scams. And if or when you convert your Bitcoin back to U.S. dollars, you have to report capital gains and losses.
The fact is cash – and in particular the U.S. dollar – is still king. In the entire world, the dollar is currently involved in almost 60% of all transactions – in commerce, business and in trading. That’s compared to the next most used currency, the Euro at ±13%. In third place is the Japanese yen at ±5%. All the other currencies in the world, including such notables as the Swiss Franc, British pound, Chinese yuan and to a miniscule degree Bitcoin – they’re all little tiny slivers to the financial transaction pie. That’s why people invest with U.S. dollars.
This brings me to the other reason people are interested in Bitcoin: it’s an asset that moves up and down in price and that movement can be an opportunity to increase the value of your Bitcoin you hold. The unfortunate shortcoming for Bitcoin investors however, is that you’re limited only to profiting from buying Bitcoin low and selling high – and converting your Bitcoin back to dollars to realize any profit.
There’s a much better alternative to invest in Bitcoin. For people looking to profit from Bitcoin price movement: consider trading the price movement you see in Bitcoin every day, yet never have to actually be in Bitcoin, but rather a derivative of it. Trade an asset that moves in sync with Bitcoin, is valued and traded in U.S. dollars and is listed on the largest financial derivatives exchange in the world.
The exchange I’m talking about is the CME Group, and the asset – there are actually three assets: the Bitcoin futures contract, the Micro Bitcoin futures contract and the newest Bitcoin Friday futures contract (sized at 1/50 of a Bitcoin like the Micro Bitcoin and cash-settled every Friday).
These three assets trade on the CME where all participants see the same prices and quotes and you enjoy the price discovery of a transparent futures contract. Of course, as a futures contract you can trade on the long and short side of the market.
If you’re a trader – in stocks, mutual funds, real estate, or other commodity futures such as stock indexes, precious metals, energies, grains, etc. and you’re looking to diversify your assets into digital currency and Bitcoin specifically, look into Bitcoin futures and trade with assurance in the asset.
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