CBOE Will Start Bitcoin Futures Trading on December 10

Re:CBOE Will Start Bitcoin Futures Trading on December 10 by sschueller on Monday December 04, 2017 @09:32AM (#15844047)

I wonder how this all will work with such huge transaction delays.

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Re:CBOE Will Start Bitcoin Futures Trading on December 10 by alwaysnotright on Monday December 04, 2017 @09:35AM (#15844078)

If I understood it correctly, futures won't have any actual transferring of bitcoins so it doesn't matter really.

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Re:CBOE Will Start Bitcoin Futures Trading on December 10 by kss238 on Monday December 04, 2017 @09:34AM (#15844070)

They're trading futures not bitcoins directly.

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Re:CBOE Will Start Bitcoin Futures Trading on December 10 by shortoncash on Monday December 04, 2017 @09:40AM (#15844115)

This doesn't matter. The HFT arbitrage guys (if they haven't already) will move in to bring the other components of the fragmented market inline. This is just a natural progression with markets becoming more efficient.

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Re:CBOE Will Start Bitcoin Futures Trading on December 10 by jcousins on Monday December 04, 2017 @09:34AM (#15844065)

All settled in dollars AFAIK.

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Re:CBOE Will Start Bitcoin Futures Trading on December 10 by chvid on Monday December 04, 2017 @09:40AM (#15844109)

Yes - you will be able to trade much faster than if bitcoins actually changed hands.

One thing this allows is shorting - unclear what it means wrt current price.

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