Why cant IB allow shorting of BTC futures with a margin requirement of 500-1000%?

Discussion in 'Interactive Brokers' started by Daal, Dec 8, 2017.

  1. southall

    southall

    You said that was petterfy's prediction.
     
    #11     Dec 8, 2017
  2. ajacobson

    ajacobson

    The question kind of answers itself. If enough people don't support it - it's not a "wait and see". It's an I don't want it and given his public pronouncements he doesn't want it. Pretty easy to climb on board if it succeeds at some later date.

    I would also hate to have to defend a lawsuit over trading it given his public stand.
     
    #12     Dec 8, 2017
  3. Macca1

    Macca1

    Sounds like it's going to be retail supporting BTC futures on the long side well instos unload. Seems just as risky letting retail go long. If liquidity drys up then it's going to get very ugly.
     
    #13     Dec 8, 2017
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  4. Overnight

    Overnight

    Well guys, guess what! Sunday evening ET is your first taste of bitcoin futures, on Cboe! Have fun! Hodl? For teh win?
     
    #14     Dec 8, 2017
  5. lovethetrade

    lovethetrade Guest

    It's because there's a massive bias to the upside. Shorting cryptocurrencies is risky most of the time.
     
    #15     Dec 9, 2017

  6. cmon, selective reporting doesn't become you. fake news!

    he also said, it could easily go to 100,000 FIRST

    he realizes its a manipulated squeeze in the fashion of the most heinous penny stocks.
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    so do I
     
    #16     Dec 9, 2017
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  7. Visaria

    Visaria

    i wanna join with the longs and squeeeeeeeeze those shorts!
     
    #17     Dec 9, 2017
  8. Will it be possible to go long, though? I wonder when will futures options be offered.
     
    #18     Dec 9, 2017
  9. Pekelo

    Pekelo

    No contradiction. In those 4 years plenty of customers could blow their accounts by trying to short it. What if the ATH comes in 2 years from now? Then the late comers blowing their accounts because they are trying to catch a falling knife?
     
    #19     Dec 9, 2017
  10. Pekelo

    Pekelo

    At least 3 times from memory:

    1. 30 to 2
    2. 140 to 76
    3. 1K to 150

    If you move your cursor slowly, you can see the historical price changes:

    https://www.coindesk.com/price/ (set time frame to All)

    Note: These prices are end of day, so it shows 22 in #1 and 230 in #2 cases, but I tend to recall the actual low/high.
     
    #20     Dec 9, 2017