1. a futures market minimizes volatility. currency speculators are able to go leveraged long / short BTC price on a USD-settled contract. if BTC price starts rising (falling) too sharply, pressure mounts from the shorts (longs), and tends to correct.
I think in the short term its going to make more volatility...
maybe when BTC finds a stable price ( 10K is very unstable ... ) THEN the futures market will start to act like a price anchor.
2. the market settles in USD, so does not directly affect BTC trading volume. of course, the contracts need to be backed up, so if derivatives trading volume increases, more of the underlying asset needs to be held by the issuer.
thats what i would think... but they say that "will not require the custody of the underlying asset."
maybe i'm reading that wrong, the issuer holds BTC and their users "will not require the custody of the underlying asset."
but idk about this... do they need 100% reserves? do they even have BTC reserves as of this moment?
are they selling puts / calls, wtf is their "product"
4. however, existence of a mature derivatives market
is a precondition for a establishing a BTC ETF, which does directly affect BTC volume, as institutional and retail investors are able to get exposure to BTC, without incurring the associated custodial risks. ETF investors, unlike derivative traders, are betting on growth.
so its official then, the bubble will keep inflating until the ETF investors come in and triple the price.
well fuck me.
[doublepost=1512150099,1512148978][/doublepost]naaa you are just dreaming buddy.
when the futures market comes online, and provides 0 buying/selling pressure, the market will react, and by that time everyone will have bought the top, so theirs only one way to go.
and a year later its all going to end with a spectacular long squeeze.
but by that time all the cool kids will be using BCH, we'll just lol as wall street trips over itself speculating on a purely speculative asset that will soon prove itself completely unusable.
remember, you heard it first from me.