OKCoin Bitcoin Exchange Announces Futures Trading Platform
One of the world's largest Bitcoin exchanges, OKCoin, has just announced yet another service they will be adding for their Bitcoin traders - futures. Futures allow for traders to hedge their risk when dealing with high levels of volatility, which is one of the largest challenges Bitcoin faces at this time. Futures trading is something offered on most stock brokerage service such as E*Trade or TDM Ameritrade, and is now coming to the Bitcoin arena. OKCoin's futures trading allows traders to "lock in" future prices to buy their coins. Futures are legally binding agreements between two....
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Chinese exchange OKCoin announced today it will add futures trading to its platform, saying it is one of the first major exchanges in the world to offer users the chance to trade futures denominated in bitcoin. OKCoin's futures trading, which will be in beta for the next two weeks before going live, partly solves bitcoin's price volatility problem and reduces risks by allowing bitcoin earners to 'lock in' a future price. More advanced traders can use futures to utilize higher leverage opportunities for price speculation. Trading of derivatives like futures also serves to move volatility....
Flibbr, a bitcoin-based marketplace, recently hosted a Google hangout session with two members of the OKCoin Bitcoin exchange: Zane Tackett and Chief Technical Officer Changpeng Zhao. During the hangout, Zhao commented on an upcoming hedge fund trader with an enormous amount of money to trade. Zhao said: "Also very exciting, we have a new client. I cannot disclose the name yet. It's a €3 billion market cap client. They just do hedge fund trading, and they're going to be trading on our platform. That's a pretty big institution." The news is huge for the bitcoin exchange thatjust recently....
OKCoin has officially updated its mobile Android trading app to include futures trading and new candlestick charts. The new product launch brings features available on OKCoin.com to mobile app users, including 10x leverage on all trades, a profit calculator and bi-weekly, weekly, monthly and quarterly contract types. In an interview, OKCoin international marketing manager Zane Tackett indicated that the China-based company believes the product will appeal to serious traders who need the ability to manage their positions on-the-go and at all times. Tackett told CoinDesk: "It can be a....
The bitcoin trading platform OKCoin is currently down and has been for more than 12 hours according to a reddit user. When visiting OKCoin.com you will receive a Cloudflare error as seen below: There has been reports claiming that the servers OKCoin uses are undergoing Emergency Maintenance due to abnormalities caused by server interruptions. For more than eight hours ago OKCoin sent out a tweet saying their platform would be temporarily inaccessible. The tweet is now creating outrage among some of their followers. Let's hope the maintenance is over soon so OKCoin's clients can access....
The three biggest global bitcoin exchanges, BTCC, OKCoin and Huobi, currently under “inspection” by the Chinese authorities, have stopped margin trading. We can further confirm that OKCoin no longer offers futures trading to Chinese citizens. Non-Chinese citizens can continue to use the international version (OKCoin.com) which appears to continue providing 3x margins and up to 20x futures. We have not received any response in time for publishing, therefore cannot confirm why they have taken such move, but it is most likely in response to probable PBOC orders. The Chinese authorities met....