Option Block 676: Everyone Has Bitcoin Fever
Trading Block: We are living in the Bitcoin futures world. At 5:00 pm CT on Sunday, XBT futures opened at $15,000 and 890 contracts were traded by 7:15 pm. Total volume Sunday overnight was a reported 3,001 contracts, with nearly 20 trading firms actively participating.
Apparently Bitcoin is destroying the world.
Options Question of the Week: Everyone's caught Bitcoin fever these days. The first "real" futures launched today on CBOE. Our question is simple - are you going to trade them this week?
Heck Yes!
Hell No!
I already traded them
Sticking w/Coinbase et al
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