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Al_Dente wrote:FWIW
Shorting bitcoin via short GBTC
"New shorts are being charged 18.5% because the overall float is relatively small."
One analyst “expects short interest and borrowing costs in GBTC to rise to as high as 50% on an annual basis, once new bitcoin futures and ETFs enter the market, expanding available options for investors to have exposure in the digital currency and suppress the existing premium for the GBTC…."While the futures contract will allow easier and safer bitcoin short selling, it will also allow for easier and safer bitcoin long buying. Long GBTC holders may feel the pain of its 59% asset premium shrinking, while short sellers will probably be incurring a 50%-plus stock borrow fee--both sides will be paying a premium in order to ride the bitcoin roller coaster once the Cboe futures start trading…
https://eresearch.fidelity.com/eresearc ... S_SVC&sb=1
fehro wrote:headlines.. looked all rosy for China this morning? XLY0- Shanghai $SSEC W/D .. <20w/50w/20d nears 50d and 2yr uptrend .. china going to break first?
Trades with cats wrote:As of Monday a 1 bitcoin future contract will cost you $4,500 in collateral. A week later the 5 coin contract opens at around $20,000 collateral. AS soon as the brokers establish day trader margin it could explode. ES collateral is around $5,300 but day trading collateral is around $500.
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