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11.11.2020
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BitMEX is a P2P crypto-products trading platform. BitMEX and the mobile apps issued under BMEX are wholly owned and operated by HDR Global Trading Limited, a Republic of Seychelles incorporated entity or its relevant authorised affiliates. Cryptocurrency charts by TradingView. BitMEX offers a variety of contract types. All contracts are bought and paid out in Bitcoin. BitMEX created the “Perpetual Contract”, a high leverage contract that never expires! All contracts are bought and paid out in Bitcoin. How does one tie a futures contract to an index if there’s no settlement/expiry? Bitmex.com does this through the mechanism which they call “funding”. It is intended to replicate the interest payments mechanics between longs and shorts in a regular spot market Let’s see an example of how a Bitcoin futures contract is represented on BitMex. XBTH19 refers to a Bitcoin futures contract where the expiration month is H, which equals to March in the year of 2019. This futures contract is settling on the BXBT30M Index, meaning at expiration the market price is determined based on this index. Each contract worth 1 USD of Bitcoin. The BitMEX contract’s USD value is fixed at $1 per contract. Contract size. The CME contract is much larger in notional terms than BitMEX’s. If the price of Bitcoin is $8,000, one CME contract is worth $40,000. To achieve a similar notional on BitMEX requires 40,000 contracts. BitMEX was the first exchange to offer leveraged trading via a futures contract called ETH7D. The leading spot ETHXBT exchanges Poloniex and Kraken, have just started offering margin trading. This post will explain the differences and costs of margin trading vs. futures trading of ETHXBT.

BitMEX is a P2P crypto-products trading platform. BitMEX and the mobile apps issued under BMEX are wholly owned and operated by HDR Global Trading Limited, a Republic of Seychelles incorporated entity or its relevant authorised affiliates. Cryptocurrency charts by TradingView.

BitMEX is a P2P crypto-products trading platform. BitMEX and the mobile apps issued under BMEX are wholly owned and operated by HDR Global Trading Limited, a Republic of Seychelles incorporated entity or its relevant authorised affiliates. Cryptocurrency charts by TradingView. BitMEX offers a variety of contract types. All contracts are bought and paid out in Bitcoin. BitMEX created the “Perpetual Contract”, a high leverage contract that never expires! All contracts are bought and paid out in Bitcoin. How does one tie a futures contract to an index if there’s no settlement/expiry? Bitmex.com does this through the mechanism which they call “funding”. It is intended to replicate the interest payments mechanics between longs and shorts in a regular spot market

BitMEX is a P2P crypto-products trading platform. BitMEX and the mobile apps issued under BMEX are wholly owned and operated by HDR Global Trading Limited, a Republic of Seychelles incorporated entity or its relevant authorised affiliates. Cryptocurrency charts by TradingView.

BitMEX offers several of its trading products in the form of a Futures Contract with cash settlement. Now, that’s very nice definition but I would like to draw your attention to the following Unlike CBOE and CME, BitMEX futures are crypto settled, meaning the underlying crypto asset is delivered upon contract settlement. BitMEX recently announced the addition of several new crypto futures contract listings, paired with Bitcoin. BitMEX offers Perpetual Contracts and Futures. As opposed to futures, perpetual contracts do not have an expiry date. You can go long or short on these contracts by simply buying or selling them. You can sell even if you don’t hold any contracts, making BitMEX a valuable tool for “naked” shorting purposes.

23 Jun 2016 Central, Hong Kong-based digital currency derivatives trading platform BitMEX and Singapore-based bitcoin exchange Quoine have 

Unlike CBOE and CME, BitMEX futures are crypto settled, meaning the underlying crypto asset is delivered upon contract settlement. BitMEX recently announced the addition of several new crypto futures contract listings, paired with Bitcoin. BitMEX offers Perpetual Contracts and Futures. As opposed to futures, perpetual contracts do not have an expiry date. You can go long or short on these contracts by simply buying or selling them. You can sell even if you don’t hold any contracts, making BitMEX a valuable tool for “naked” shorting purposes. A Bitmex perpetual swap contract is an inverse futures contract which has no settlement date and never expires. Each contract is worth 1 USD and traders can hold open positions for as long as they want.

Looking ahead, on December 27, 2019, the Bitcoin futures contract on BitMEX will expire. And many Bitcoin price forecasts from “crazy” to 

28 Jun 2019 So it is important to understand that futures contract have an expiration date (a bit like your milk in your fridge🥛). Futures contracts can be traded,  This asymmetry (unlimited profit, limited losses) is the beauty of the BitMEX Limited Risk contract, which is a BitMEX innovation. Trading Futures Contracts on the  BitMEX's XBTZ19 contracts about to expire. Now, on December 27, Bitcoin futures for  27 May 2019 Inverse futures contract explained. I ran into this blog post yesterday and it really helped me understand how XBTUSD works on bitmex. Maybe it's useful to 

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