Investing in Bitcoin made easy: Thanks to the simulator launched by CME

By Achal Arya
Updated May 13, 2024

The post on twitter from CME, about Forecasting the Trend of Bitcoin has become the first biggest news of 2018. Crypto-Currencies had been on a rise in the year 2017, as a result everyone wished to invest in Bitcoin and other Crypto-Currencies looking at the future. One hand gave profit to those who were masters in predicting the future for Bitcoin; on the same hand it was really an average profit mark for people who were involved in Bitcoin Trading for the first time.

What is the news all about?

The news came out in late hours of New-year eve, when people were busy with celebrations and shopping after Black Friday and Cyber Monday, CME was busy with coming up with a mind-blowing surprise, which can really change the future of Bitcoin investors. Though it is true that CME’s announcement came after CBOE launch, which decided the Bitcoin future contract dated on December 10th.

Outcome of the News

As soon as the news came out a new hustle-bustle grabbed the market of Bitcoin investors. People who always wished to invest in Bitcoin apprehended and opened their trading account boosting the investor’s market by 1,00,00+ investors in single day. The final impact can be any of the following:

  • The new markets can additionally profit retailers as they are the ones who play with small amount of investment rather than the traders itself. With TD Ameritrade helping the customers to exchange CBOE’s upcoming contracts, it can soon be seen exchanging contracts notwithstanding CBOE’s Bitcoin CFDs.
  • Interactive Brokers can be seen taking care of over portion of the exchanging volume seen on CBOE’s dispatch day, notwithstanding the stage keeping up an edge necessity 150% bigger than CBOE.
  • Major advertises making firms such as DRW, DV Trading, and Akuna Capital can be seen trusting the Bitcoin Market and giving it liquidity.

It was a major concern for the miners, that even after being the first currency, the dip in the growth rate had gone surprisingly down, on the other hand the Crypto-currencies such as eth and XRP has grown immensely in comparison to Bitcoin. Despite the hype leading up to the launch of the Bitcoin futures market, volume has thus far been dwarfed by the scale of trade being conducted on leading crypto currency exchanges. By the time, you will read the article; the total trading amount will go to 2500 with CME and 5200 with CBOE.

Whom this future trend is going to help

Till now overwhelming weight institutional speculators must choose between limited options to short Bitcoin as they do it for different items and stock fates. I am not expecting any real cooperation from retail speculators, but rather the vast majority of the short exchanges will be started by underneath two classes:

  • Miners
  • Institutional Investors

Every month, miners need to keep up their money streams to pay their costs including power and equipment costs. Undiscovered benefits dependably have a place with showcase. In the event that they trust that Bitcoin cost is going to go down they could support their cost by shorting an insignificant level of property which can be secured later. Since miners have guide access to all “insider data”, I trust they could utilize Bitcoin fates forcefully going ahead.

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Achal Arya
Achal Arya is a digital product designer and an entrepreneur. He did his masters degree in design from IIT Hyderabad and has a bachelors degree in Computer Science. He works in the Web3 domain and manages new developments at CoinGape. Follow him on X at @arya_achal or reach him at achal[at]coingape.com.
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