I have heard the Bitoffer News on the website. Lucian, Bitoffer’s chief analysts, has said that not only the domestic market is keen on ETFs, but also in overseas markets. According to the British Financial Times, there is currently a strong demand for ETF products in Europe, and with the surge in Bitcoin fund assets, people are eager for cryptocurrencies. It's also very strong.

iI have my own experience. Take BitOffer’s ETF Fund to be an example. Its transaction is simple and clear, you can buy up and buy down. The investors buy and hold on increasing. The increasing rate of BitCoin is so large. But it can gain high profits for about 3 times to 17 times. Buy the ETF Fund.

ETH has a good future, and it encourages people to hold it as they hold bitcoins.

Now also you can check BitOffer Quantitative Fund, it is a fund giving investors fixed returns. It should fit your demand.

We have to admit that Bitcoin has been an asset that owns the best performance in the past 10 years. It also has been added into different portfolios much more often than before.
Thus, many bitcoin derivatives such as Bitcoin Futures, Bitcoin Options, and Bitcoin Wealth management came out.

Many people must be familiar with Bitcoin futures and Bitcoin Options. But now, Bitcoin Wealth Managements also start getting some eye-contacts from the market.
Such as BitOffer Quantitative Fund which guarantees 20% Annualized return & 100% the original investment, in the past, no one will think it is possible to do that. But since now, the arbitrage strategies can be made because the bitcoin financial ecosystem developed and improved.

If you guys are interested in the Quantitative Fund I mentioned, feel free to discuss more with me on telegram: @bitofferqa
Or you can just go check on our website: https://www.bitoffer.com/finance/Def-Win-No1

Bitcoin will become real digital gold with a complete financial system.

You are right, don't trust any comment from analyst...
And do trust any good products and services.
Like perpetual Swap on BitMEX, you can earn leveraged profits, but you can also use it to hedge.
And also Options trading on BitOffer, you can earn a huge price from it, but you can also use it to hedge.
Things always got 2 sides.

We need holders to be optimists so that the market can be expected and potential, don't we?
12k to 13k only took less than 2 days, an adjustment is about to happen soon. You can consider short 1X bitcoin or buying put options, like on BitOffer, to hedge your bitcoins when you detect some signs that bitcoin is going to fall back soon. Hedging is an important thing to maximize profits and avoid value loss even you are a long-term holder, or a short-term "buy-low & sell-high" trader.

Well. Actually, the Paypal news is not the real reason.
Because it only supports investors to buy, sell or hold. That means you cannot withdraw it to your cold wallet, or transfer to anyone (But maybe transfer will be available). In addition, buying bitcoins on Paypal only makes you have a record on Paypal, the real holding address should belong to Paypal. Thus, Bitcoin trading on Paypal is a closed loop which is full of data.
About another part you said, yep, bitcoin should be our right choice. That is also the reason why institutions start buying bitcoin to store, or trading some bitcoin derivatives such as futures and options in their portfolio.
What is more, funds using Bitcoin as underlying also start showing up. You can also check the Quantitative Fund launched by BitOffer, that is how traditional financial institutions are working on: Doing Asset Custody to help investors get fixed interest.

I deeply hold the view that every bitcoin holders should expect Bitcoins to the moon in the future. And I am a holder too, I also keep holding some bitcoins.
However, in the market, people will sell their bitcoins for fiat some times. Not only for Christmas shopping but also some traders need to buy low and sell high to earn profits. It is one of the reasons why Bitcoin is full of volatility.
That is fine, I chose to hedge, and sometimes I adjust my portfolio, like investing in some stable investments such as Dual-currency or BitOffer Quantitative fund to earn some tiny fixed income. At least, it can help me grow my asset value gradually.
I work for BitOffer, but initially, I am still a holder, and sometimes a trader, or investor.
Maybe it looks like shilling stuff, but if something can help traders earn profits, I should be forgiven. XD

Yep, the surge was rapid, so an adjustment is required in the short-term.
Don't try to predict how whales will do, they also need to cash out to earn profits from the market. That is why hedge matters

I have read all the comments above.
You guys are all correct in your way.
Bitcoin is an asset that is full of volatility. Holding it or trading it is both a way to earn profits from the market. It depends on which style you are.

If you are a holder, then hedging is an important thing to do if you plan to maximize your profits or avoid any unexpected risk. To hedge your bitcoins, trading bitcoin derivatives shall be the easiest way to do that. Taking BitOffer Bitcoin Options as an example, if you hold a bitcoin, and now the bitcoin price is 10k, and you are afraid that if it will dump, then you could buy a put options contract. When Bitcoin really dumps, like decreases by 1k USD, the bitcoin you hold makes you lose 1k USD. However, the put options you buy get you a 1k USD payoff also, because the put options you buy will enable you to earn the market change directly if you choose the correct direction. Notice that only American Options allows users to do that, and that is why I only take BitOffer Options as an example, not options on deribit.

What if you want to earn money from Bitcoin but you don't want to trade or hold?
The Bitcoin financial ecosystem is developed in recent years, so many funds using Bitcoin as Underlying has been launched, like the Quantitative Fund on BitOffer, it guarantees investors capital and 20% interest. Many people may doubt it. But actually, a well-done quantitative team shall be able to set any arbitrage strategy to arbitrage from the market.
Not only BitOffer, but also Huobi Global, or traditional institutions such as Goldman Sachs are working on it.

Follow me, I would love to share more info and strategy of hedging bitcoins.

Influenced by COVID-19, the Bitcoin price plunged by $5,000 within 2 weeks. As it dropped from $9,000 to $3,800, it created the worst daily decline in 7 years. While the market liquidated almost all the longs positions, it triggered a chain reaction that the market had panic emotions surrounded, and the Bitcoin price was frustrated. Besides, the worldwide stock markets all experienced a huge decline, and even the gold market was not able to be immune from it. After the multiple declines, the assets of global investors shrank.

The decline told us a simple sense that the market is full of risks. Even you held Bitcoins in your pocket, it once lost more than 50% value in the short-term, let alone the Bitcoin futures contracts. If you used to trade standard contracts on Huobi Global or BitMEX, whether you opened positions or not, the value of your account would lose as the token price dropped.

Overall, in this case, the market usually liquidates the longs and shorts at the same time while you leverage your trading. When the market fluctuates, closing orders on Huobi Global and OKEx was disabled due to the system lag was serious. At last, all you can do is to pray and wait for the liquidation to your positions since it is obvious that the risk of futures trading is extremely high.

When the situations get serious and extreme like what we experienced last week, futures trading is definitely not fit to trade because whether you belong to the longs or shorts, with a highly additional leverage on your futures contracts, your positions are likely to be liquidated after the market fluctuates. To become the winners on the market, it seems that options trading grabs a victory in the battle between futures trading and itself. The most significant feature of the options trading is that it has an inherent 2,000 times leverage, but it does not have any risk of being forced into liquidation. The investors who trade Bitcoin Options do not have to pay attention to the market all the time. With the feature above, the mentality will be hard to be influenced, so that it will be much easier to make correct choices and strategies.
 

How Do I Earn My Money back with a Low-budget after Bitcoin plunged?

After the decline, most investors are considering the same question: How do I earn my money back with the rest of the funds? COVID-19 influence on the global market still exists. In other words, market fluctuation will be presented again. In this case, Bitcoin Options becomes a unique choice. Bitcoin Options launched by BitOffer requests 0 fees, 0 margins, and no exercise, and supports the time length in 7-days, 1-day, 12-hours, 4-hours, 1-hour, 5-mins and 2-mins.

What is Bitcoin Options?

Bitcoin Options is a prediction of the movement of Bitcoins in the future. Essentially, it operates like the spot trading, but it allows the investors to buy call or put: Call when the investors expect the market to be bullish, Put when the investors expect the market to be bearish. Its profit formula is the same as that of the spot trading: Within the Options contract period, the investors would earn the price spread if the investors choose the correct direction. In short, BitOffer Bitcoin Options allows the investors to use a small budget to bet the change of the Bitcoins in the future and earn a considerable profit.

Takes the market last week as the example, the Bitcoin price plunged by $5,000, if you bought a 7-days put options contract, you would directly earn $5,000 with a budget which is less than $200. The rate of return was more than 2,500%. When the market was experiencing a serious decline, it dropped by $1,500 in an hour. If you bought a 1-hour put options contract with a budget of $20, you would directly earn $1,500, and the rate of return would reach 7,500%.

How do I trade Bitcoin Options?

For example, the Bitcoin price now is $10,000, and you hold the view that the Bitcoin price will rise in an hour, then you buy a 1-hour call options contract with $20. After then, the Bitcoin price rises by $1,000 in an hour, you will earn $1,000 as profit when the contract settled, which means that you will earn a 50 times payoff as a return.

If the Bitcoin price drops in an hour, you would only lose the premium $20 that you buy the options contract. It is obvious that Bitcoin Options owns the advantage of “Unlimited profit buy limited loss”. Compared with futures trading, if you predict the wrong direction of the Bitcoin market and do not stop loss in time, it might cause your positions to be liquidated and lose money. Thus, Bitcoin Options fits almost all investors.

BitOffer, one of the most professional cryptocurrency derivatives exchanges, bases its headquarters in Singapore and sets up operation branches in HongKong and other places in order to push the process of indigenized operation. As an international financial service provider with the concept of “Endowing users with the ability to trade a variety of digital asset on a secure, efficient platform”, BitOffer is committed to build a world-class cryptocurrency trading platform with high-quality products and services that is able to offer millions of blockchain enthusiasts security, efficient and diversified cryptocurrency derivatives.

With the team consists of elites come from Goldman Sachs, Facebook, Google, Tencent, UBS, AIA, etc., BitOffer specializes in R&D and operation.

To facilitate the development of global blockchain digital assets, BitOffer sincerely recruits superior projects. In addition, BitOffer will provide a public, fair and transparent operation so that the investors can own the capability of trading in a benign environment. In the future, BitOffer will also build a business connection with renowned institutions to provide comprehensive digital asset investments and services.

Diversified Services to Projects
BitOffer is advanced in technical security and operating system due to its leading talent of R&D. With the trading system adopts the top-level institution level of structuring which integrates developed matching algorithm, the rapid processing speed guarantees the efficiency when investors are trading on BitOffer.

To secure the asset of investors, BitOffer not only requires KYC authentication but also uses multiple wallets separated into Cold Wallet and Hot Wallet. BitOffer is also developing its financial chain to provide projects customized financial programs with advanced smart contract.

Soon, BitOffer will also support the services of cross-chain trading and on-chain liquidation to share the worldwide liquidity. The powerful risk-control system and the multilingual services enable BitOffer to protect the investors’ security and clear dyslexia for investors all over the world.

Multifarious Financial Services Licences
BitOffer has been authorized the type 1 licence by Hong Kong SFC which allows BitOffer to provide securities services. Now BitOffer is also applying for the type 7 licence that can enable BitOffer to offer automatic trading services.

Besides, BitOffer also has been licensed as an STO exchange that is approved to offer regulated services of applying, issuing tokens, tokens custody and bringing liquidity. With the services above, BitOffer will be able to provide the support of wallet, or issuing tokens on BitOffer financial chain of which smart contract can schedule a periodically burn, tokens management. In this case, it can guarantee the projects to be operated by the project in a regulated way.

One-stop Financial Services
Since BitOffer started its business, it has provided several innovative financial products and features as follows:

1. Bitcoin Options: The first intraday Bitcoin Options in the Cryptocurrency industry which requires 0 margins, 0 fees and non-exercise.
2. ETF: The most innovative cryptocurrency ETF so far of which ROI is 300% to 1500%.
3. Spot trading: Charging the lowest fee, 0.05%.
4. In the near future, BitOffer will also launch the most innovative perpetual swap, and other trading products and services.

BitOffer, a professional team with strong capital, and the most creative operation pattern and products, provides investors with one-stop financial services that always put user experience and platform value at the first stage.

Real-time Global Media Promotion
BitOffer and hundreds of worldwide blockchain media have announced a strategic cooperation. Moreover, with the cooperation with numerous renowned KOLs on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc. countless globally social network promotions are also available at the same time.



Missions of BitOffer
BitOffer devotes itself to build the most professional financial derivatives trading platform for worldwide investors based on the development of STO. Technically, we solve the pain points of the digital asset in order to build a transparent and efficient blockchain ecosystem. In addition, for the purpose of providing a fair and transparent trading environment with high liquidity, BitOffer builds an on-chain custody system based on the smart contract by connecting the worldwide liquidity and setting up a completed on-chain liquidation mechanism so that investors can participate in trading and custody on their wallet. BitOffer will always take “Endowing users with the ability to trade a variety of digital assets on a secure, efficient platform” as the concept.

BitOffer now sincerely offers an olive branch to high-quality projects.

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At 10:00(UTC+8), Feb 24th, BitOffer officially announced the launch of Ethereum ETF, and the fee for purchasing will be 0. The profit of Ethereum ETF launched by BitOffer is estimated to be 3 times to 17 times. Different types of Ethereum ETF have the same features of “Buying Long & Short”, “No Margins” and “No Liquidation”. This product will be managed by the professional financial team. With the automatic positions adjusting mechanism and its compounding calculation, even the drastic drops happen on the ETH price, Ethereum ETF will never be at risk because of its features of “Highly Profitable but Low-risk”.

Ethereum ETF now allows investors to purchase with 0 fees, and its current net value is 100 USDT. In the purchase of Ethereum ETF, its minimum requirement is 0.1 unit, and the maximum requirement is 500 units. In addition, in the purchase and the redemption of Ethereum ETF, it only supports USDT.

The investors will be able to invest any amount and choose to hold for the long term or trade it anytime or anywhere due to the limitless on the timing and amount of purchase and redemption. It has the same operation pattern as holding ETH on the spot trading market, but its payoff is at least 3 times more than holding ETH. Besides, the investors who buy Ethereum ETF never worry about the store and security of the digital asset due to the reason that they don’t have to hold Ethereum.

BitOffer launched Bitcoin ETF last year. Until now, the purchase of Bitcoin ETF has reached $100,000,000. Moreover, it has achieved the highest ROI in the cryptocurrency industry. The launch of Cryptocurrency ETF not only shapes the route of cryptocurrency derivatives but also provides the investors diversified trading products to push the development of the market.

 What is Ethereum ETF?

ETF (Exchange-Traded Fund), is highly accepted as a financial derivative in traditional finance. Ethereum ETF is fixedly leveraged because of its correspondence to a specific amount of futures contract positions.

Even though Ethereum ETF and futures trading have some similarities such as their leverage rates has the possibility to enlarge the investors’profits, obvious differences still exist. The most significant one is that Ethereum ETF does not request any margin which leads to “No Liquidation”. To the investors who have less time to focus on the market, Ethereum ETF will save your time to the greatest extent.

How do I trade Ethereum ETF?

BitOffer will launch 3 indexes of ETH3X, ETHR, ETH3R as the net value and the prices of the corresponding ETF. The price and the net value may have some deviations, but it will be incredibly small in the purchase and redemption on BitOffer.

 ETH3X means Open Long 3X ETH: When the Ethereum price rises 5%, the ETH3X is expected to rise by about 15%.

ETHR means Open Short 1X ETH: When the Ethereum price drops 5%, the ETHR is expected to rise by about 5%.

ETH3R means Open Short 3X ETH: When the Ethereum price drops 5%, the ETH3R is expected to rise by 15%.

 To investors, the trading patterns of Ethereum ETF and the ETH spot trading are much the same. But Ethereum ETF supports users to buy long or short, which means that users can buy ETH3X when expecting the price to rise and buy ETHR or ETH3R when expecting the price to drop. In the aspect of risk, investors are allowed to exchange ETF and USDT anytime, and moreover, Ethereum ETF will never face any liquidation.

First, choose the direction (Long or Short). Choose ETH3X when the bull market expected, choose ETHR or ETH3R when the bear market expected.

Case 1：
The ETH price is $200, you predict the ETH price will rise, and now the fund net value of ETH3X is 1. Thus, you purchase 1,000 units of ETH3X with 1,000 USDT. On the second day, the ETH price rises to $220(10%), the fund net value of ETH3X will be 1.3 due to its 3X leverage, which means your profit will be 30% by earning 300 USDT.
Case 2：
The ETH price is $200, you predict the ETH price will drop, and now the fund net value of ETHR is 1. Thus, you purchase 1,000 units of ETHR with 1,000 USDT. On the second day, the ETH price drops to $180(-10%), the fund net value of ETHR will be 1.1, which means your profit will be 10% by earning 100 USDT.
Case 3：
The ETH price is $200, you predict the ETH price will drop, and now the fund net value of ETH3R is 1. Thus, you purchase 1,000 units of ETH3R with 1,000 USDT. On the second day, the ETH price drops to $180(-10%), the fund net value of ETH3R will be 1.3 due to its 3X leverage, which means your profit will be 30% by earning 300 USDT.
 

The last October, BitOffer officially launched Bitcoin Options, which was the first intraday Bitcoin Options that requires 0 fees, 0 margins, and no exercise, and be able to reach 2,000X leverage. The most significant feature of BitOffer Bitcoin Options is that the investors are enabled to earn a thousand times payoff whether the bull market or bear market. The purpose of launching Bitcoin Options is to provide investors an accurate hedge tool and an extra trading product. It is worth mentioning the price index of BitOffer Bitcoin Options is a weighted average of bitcoin prices from selected exchanges( Including：Kraken，Bitstamp，Coinbase，Bitfinex，Huobi，Binance，OKEX) with significant trading volumes, which makes it fair and transparent.

Q: What is Bitcoin Options?
Lucian: Bitcoin Options is a prediction of the movement of Bitcoins in the future. Essentially, it operates like the spot trading, but it allows the investors to buy call or put: Call when the investors expect the market to be bullish, Put when the investors expect the market to be bearish. Its profit formula is the same as that of the spot trading: Within the Options contract period, the investors would earn the price spread if the investors choose the correct direction. In short, BitOffer Bitcoin Options allows the investors to use a small budget to bet the change of the Bitcoins in the future and earn a considerable profit.

Q: How do we trade Bitcoin Options?
Lucian: BitOffer Bitcoin Options supports 2-mins, 5-mins, 1-hour, 4-hours, 12-hours, 1-day and 7-day contract period for investors to choose.
For example, the Bitcoin price now is $10,000, and you hold the view that the Bitcoin price will rise in an hour, then you buy a 1-hour call options contract with $10. After then, the Bitcoin price rises by $500 in an hour, you will earn $500 as profit when the contract settled, which means that you will earn a 50 times payoff as a return.

Q: Is Bitcoin Options the best hedge tool ever?
Lucian: BitOffer Bitcoin Options, the most innovative Bitcoin Options, is the best hedge tool ever for Bitcoin trading on the spot trading.
Then, how do the investors hedge their Bitcoin trading from the risk of the Bitcoin prices decreases?
For example, now the Bitcoin price is $10,000. When it rises to $11,000, the profit will be $1,000.
However, what if it falls to $9,000? If you do not hedge your Bitcoin trading, you would directly lose $1,000.
If you hedge your Bitcoin trading by buying a put options contract with $10, when the Bitcoin price drops from $10,000 to $9,000, you would earn $1,000 from the put options contract. Thus, your $1,000 loss on the spot trading would be hedged. This is how Bitcoin Options attracts investors.

Q: Which exchanges offer Bitcoin Options?
Lucian: There are few exchanges that offer Bitcoin Options now. Only BAKKT, CME, BitOffer, Binance JEX, OKEx, etc. do, but except BitOffer, the Bitcoin Options offered by the others belong to European Options, which means investors need to buy a whole Bitcoin, otherwise, they will only be able to give it up and lose the options premium. However, BitOffer Bitcoin Options is much simpler due to its features of 0 margins, 0 fees, and no exercise requirement.

Q: For newbies, which is much more suitable? Options trading or spot trading?
Lucian: The essences of Bitcoin Options and the spot trading are the same because a Bitcoin Options contract equals to the right of holding a Bitcoin.
We can make a simple comparison of Bitcoin Options and the spot trading:
When the Bitcoin price is $10,000,
1. Buying a Bitcoin needs $10,000;
2. Buying a Bitcoin Options contract needs a minimum of $5.
If the Bitcoin price rises from $10,000 to $10,500, you would earn $500 in both.
The payoff of these two is the same, but the budgets have a 200-fold difference.
On the contrary, when the Bitcoin price falls, if you predict the wrong direction, your largest loss in Bitcoin Options will only be the premium of your Bitcoin Options contract, which means you will only lose $5. The payoffs of the spot trading and Bitcoin Options are the same, but the budget of investing in Bitcoin Options is much lower, which makes the risk become lower.

Q: Are investors able to experience Bitcoin Options for free?
Lucian: For now, BitOffer is holding campaigns for Bitcoin Options, the date of the campaign now is 2020.2.14 09:00 to 2020.2.28 09:00 (UTC+8). In this period, new registrations on BitOffer will receive 50 USDT on their bonus account to experience Bitcoin Options for free. Moreover, the 50 USDT for experiencing Bitcoin Options is allowed to withdraw after applying.

The year 2020, so-called “The Year of Crypto Halving”, is important to the whole cryptocurrency industry. As we know it, since 2012, the halving of bitcoins happens every 4 years, which means the block rewards reduce by half every 4 years. Thus, its scarcity lifts up the Bitcoin Price. Besides, BCH, BSV, ETC, etc. are all facing the halving in 2020, the expectations of the market become optimistic.
In fact, since 2020 came, the cryptocurrency market has boosted as the funds started moving in. The bitcoin price, which broke the $10,000 mark, has risen by 50%. The increase lighted the market, and once became the trend online. As the wind vane of the cryptocurrencies, the opening of Bitcoin in 2020 stimulates the market to be bullish.
Bitcoin, the underlying owns the highest ROI in the last decade, did attract the following of the capitals. Statistically, many investors outside the cryptocurrency industry also tried to put Bitcoins into their portfolio. Some newbies are also dreaming to earn money from Bitcoins, but most of them have no idea to start purchasing Bitcoins.
How do newbies buy Bitcoins?
First, it is important for newbies to choose a trustworthy platform. Take BitOffer, which has been licensed as an STO cryptocurrency exchange in Singapore, a professional Bitcoin derivatives exchange. To provide a one-stop financial service to investors, it offers several Bitcoin trading patterns such as spot trading, Bitcoin Options, Bitcoin ETF, etc. Moreover, BitOffer charges the lowest fees for spot trading (0.05%). To a great extent, it does save time and money for investors.
After choosing the platform, you need to do the KYC, deposit the funds, and make sure your account safe. Then, you can start buying Bitcoins. As Bitcoin derivatives developed, the trading patterns of Bitcoins become diversified. For normal investors, Bitcoins on the spot trading market, Bitcoin Futures, Bitcoin Options, Bitcoin ETF, etc. are all their selections. However, to newbies, which one is the best one?
Here is the difference among Bitcoins on the spot trading market, Bitcoin Futures, Bitcoin Options:
For example,
Now the Bitcoin price is $10,000, when it rises from $10,000 to $10,500;
1. Spot trading: Earning $500 as the profit if buy a Bitcoin.
2. Options: Earning $500 as the profit if buy a call options contract.
3. How do investors earn the same profit in Bitcoin Futures?
If the investors open 20X Long Bitcoins with $500, then the bitcoin price needs to rise by at least 5%, so that the investors could earn the same profit as the other two above.
However, even the profits are the same, their budgets are different:
1. Spot trading: $10,000
2. Bitcoin Futures: $500
3. Bitcoin Options: $5
Obviously, the input of Bitcoin Options is the lowest, which means its risk is also the lowest, but it brings the investors the highest return while it can help investors earn $500 with only $5, which reaches 100X leveraged. Thus, even the trading patterns are diversified, we can still conclude that Bitcoin Options is the most suitable one for normal investors.
Please notice that the Bitcoin Options I mentioned above is BitOffer Bitcoin Options, which requires 0 Fees, 0 Margins and no exercise for investors. It enables the investors to earn a 1,000 times profit whether the bull market or bear market.

The year 2020 came as several tokens halving countdown is on the process, especially the 3rd halving of Bitcoins is upcoming. As history told us, the consensus that expects the market to be bullish is widely accepted.
In addition, Bitcoin, called “Digital Gold”, is more and more acceptable as the safe-haven asset, which also pushes the market to boost. Besides, BCH, BSV, ETC, Dash, etc. also attract the attention of the market. What is more, several altcoins are also facing halving. So, the year 2020 is also called the year of “Crypto Halving”.
What is “Bitcoin Halving”?
Specifically, the Bitcoin protocol cuts the bitcoin block reward in half every 4 years. Every time a Bitcoin halving occurs, miners begin receiving 50% fewer BTC for verifying transactions. Until now, Bitcoins have been halved twice, which respectively happen in November 2012 and July 2016. The 3rd halving is expected to in 2019.05.13, and the reward for miners will reduce from 12.5 to 6.25.
The reward reduction means that the circulation of Bitcoins will take a longer period. However, it also means that new bitcoins from mining will be few and few. Moreover, the difficulty of mining enhancing makes Bitcoins rarer, which makes the value of Bitcoins much higher. No one doubts that it does benefit the bullish market.
Will the Bitcoin Halving catalyze the Bull market?
To investors, the thing most matters them is the Bitcoin price. After the last 2 halvings happened, the bitcoin price surged soon. Bitcoin Halving does stimulate the bitcoin price to surge. We can see that Bitcoin Halving is the most important catalyst for the bull market. Thus, investors hold a positive view of the upcoming halving in 2020.
In fact, the period between the year 2020 came and now, the tokens of which halving is upcoming including BSV, BCH, ETC, DASH all boomed.
Statistically, from 2019.12.18 to the highest point since the year 2020 came, tokens which increase the most are as follow:
BSV, $76.5 to $455.55, the change reached nearly 6 times.
ETC, $3.36 to $13.23, the change reached nearly 4 times.
DASH, $40.01 to $150.84, the change reached nearly 3 times.
BCH, $169.7 to $448.4, the change reached nearly 3 times.
BTC, $6433 to $10190.13, the change reached nearly 50%.
From the data above, we can see that the expectation of the halving really can stimulate the market to boost, which can make investors earn from it.
So, here’s a question: Will you buy Bitcoins?
Bitcoin, which owns the most recognition in the cryptocurrency industry, theoretically doubles the price after halving. Also, the upgrade of the miner machine is able to double the price due to it increases the budget. So, after the halving, the bitcoin price is likely to increase by 4 times. Takes the bitcoin price $10,000 as the basis, it may rise to a level that more than $40,000.
If you buy Bitcoins on the spot trading market and hold it, when the bitcoin price rises to $40,000, you would earn a 3-times payoff. However, if you buy Bitcoin ETF launched by BitOffer, the payoff would be 9 times to 17 times due to its automatic positions adjustment mechanism and its compound calculation, which means that its ROI would be much higher than that of Bitcoins on the spot trading market.
To the investors who prefer the long-term investment, it cannot be denied that Bitcoin ETF is the best investment. The patterns of buying Bitcoins on the spot trading market and investing in Bitcoin ETF are the same. They are all supported to buy or sell, but the profit of investing in Bitcoin ETF is at least 3 times higher than buying Bitcoins on the spot trading market. Overall, investing in Bitcoin ETF is much better than buying Bitcoins on the spot trading market.

Welcome to the first chapter of BitOffer Institution! In this chapter, we are going to instruct what is Bitcoin Options. Recently, more and more cryptocurrency exchanges have launched Bitcoin Options. However, to most investors, they have no idea about Bitcoin Options and even Bitcoin Futures. Without knowing the rules, it is nearly impossible for us to win the game.

Educating investors is necessary for every investment market. A few days ago, on the International Derivatives Forum, Ian Nissen, APAC Head of Futures, Clearing and Collateral in Citi, mentioned:” Volatility is noticed by public again while the issue of using options trading to complete the risk management are valued.”. Besides, the technology is following up with the changes in the market while more and more new technologies are put into the Options trading market. Continuous education to investors is crucial to the development of the Options trading market.

The bitcoin Derivatives market has developed rapidly, but most investors still have not understood how to use Options trading. The answers to” What is Bitcoin Options” and “How to Trade Bitcoin Options” are as follows.

What is Bitcoin Options?

Options is essentially a kind of rights that enables the holder to buy or sells an asset at a fixed price at a specific date (or before the date). Just like the futures trading is a hedging tool for spot trading, so is options trading.

For example, when you plan to buy a house, dealers always offer discounts when you pay a deposit first. After then, when the value of the house drops sharply, you can choose not to buy the house, and your largest loss is the deposit. On the contrary, if the value of the house increases, then you would earn the price spread as profits. This is how options works and the deposit is the premium of the Options trading.

How to Trade Bitcoin Options?

In some ways, Trading Bitcoin Options is similar to trading bitcoins on the spot trading market. Both needs investors to predict the bitcoin price in the future, but Options trading supports investor to long or short bitcoins: Buy call when you expect the bitcoin price to be bullish, but put when you expect the bitcoin price to be bearish. If investors buy call, investors would earn the price spread as profits when the bitcoin price rises; If investors buy put, investors would earn the price spread as profits when the bitcoin price drops. In short, investors will be able to earn a huge profit with a small budget in this way.

Take BitOffer Bitcoin Options as an example, it requires 0 fees, 0 margins. The most significant feature of BitOffer Bitcoin Options is its unlimited profit with limited risk. Whether the bull or bear market, investors are able to earn profits up to 1,000X. With the purpose of providing investors a precise hedge tool and an additional trading product, BitOffer Bitcoin Options is also the only Bitcoin Options that does not request investors to exercise the options contract when the contracts settled.

Now BitOffer Bitcoin Options supports 7 different time lengths for investors to choose: 7-days, 1-day, 12-hours, 4-hours, 1-hour, 5-mins, 2-mins.

1. Call Options:
For example, the bitcoin price now is $9,000, you predict that the bitcoin price will probably rise in a week, then you buy a 7-days call options contract with $200. After a week, the bitcoin price rises by $2,000 (from $9,000 to $11,000), when your 7-days call options contract settled, you will earn $2,000-$200=$1,800 as a net profit, of which rate of return reaches 900%.

2. Put Options
For example, the bitcoin price now is $10,000, you predict that the bitcoin price will probably drop in a week, then you buy a 7-days put options contract with $200. After a week, the bitcoin price drops by $2,000 (from $10,000 to $8,000), when your 7-days put options contract settled, you will earn $2,000-$200=$1,800 as a net profit, of which rate of return reaches 900%.

If the direction of the contract you buy is wrong, you would lose the premium you pay to buy the options contract. Therefore, we can conclude that Bitcoin Options is a trading with unlimited profit but limited risk. In other words, Bitcoin Options requires a low budget but allows investors to earn a high profit with low risk. Thus, compared with Bitcoin Futures, without the risk of liquidation, Bitcoin Options is much more acceptable for most investors.

More and more derivatives exchanges came out. As I see, bitcoin derivatives are the improvement and development of the bitcoin market.
But it still needs some regulated exchanges to perfect the products.
In my opinion, perpetual swap on BitMEX is the best. And options trading and ETF is still a potential market. I trust that BitOffer will achieve it.

Background:
On Dec. 17 the bitcoin price broke below the $6,800 support level and swiftly commenced a tumble to the $6,450 support where it bounced of the lower support of the long-term descending channel.
Many analysts cautioned that if bulls failed to buy into the dip, a price drop below the $6,400 increased the possibility of a revisit to $5,500 to $5,350. Fortunately for bulls, the price bounced off the critical trendline and the digital asset could now be a route to flipping the $7,300 resistance back to support.
But let’s take an overview from Nov 1st to today, the bitcoin price dropped sharply by 22.91%. Most of the traders might already lose much money on the bitcoin trading market. Like what I mentioned before, HEDGE is the most important key to form a smart strategy.
(A hedge is an investment to reduce the risk of adverse price movements in an asset. Normally, a hedge consists of taking an offsetting position in a related security.)
For example, you hold 1 bitcoin in your wallet. Now the bitcoin price is $7,000, when it drops to $6,000, you will directly lose $1,000. But if you do some hedging works, you will be able to hedge your $1,000 loss. This is the most efficient way to maximize your profit and avoid the loss when holding 1 bitcoin.
If you still feel confused about how to hedge the risk of your trading, bitcoin options trading and BTC Leveraged ETF will be your last and the easiest choice.
BitOffer Bitcoin Options is the most profitable and the simplest bitcoin derivatives which can be used for hedging. The time length of BitOffer Options contracts now supports 2mins, 5mins, 1hour, 4hours, 12hours, 1day, 7days. And it requests 0 fees and 0 margin, which minimizes the budget for hedging. In this article, I will take the 7 days as the sample because once you try it, you will find out that the 7-days contract of BitOffer Options is the perfect one for hedging your bitcoin trading.
Here is a simple math:
From Nov 1st to today, the bitcoin price has fallen by $2113.67. As far as I know, the average quotation for 7-days put contract (Expect the market to be bullish) is $170. And the profit formula of buying put is: The strike price- The settlement price-$170= Your profit when you buy put.
If I have held 1 bitcoin since Nov 1st, and I continued buying 1 7-days put contract, how much loss would I save from the bitcoin price dumped during those 48 days?
And How Much Would I Earn if I continued buying 2 7-days put contracts?
The answer is:
1. If I continued buying 1 7-days put contract, I would only lose the budget I bought the contracts in this period because my loss of holding 1 bitcoin was totally hedged by the put contracts I bought. So, the total loss would be $170*7=$1,190, and the loss I saved is $2113.67-$1,190=$923.67.
2. If I continued buying 2 7-days put contracts, I would earn:
The total amount I would get from my put contracts is $4987.3 (This number is calculated by the bitcoin price spread every 7 days during those 48days.).
The budget of buying put contracts: $170*7*2=$2,380
So, my profit if I continued buying 2 7-days put contracts would be: $4987.3-$2,380-$2113.67= $493.63
In conclusion, when the bitcoin price dumped in this period, as a normal holder, we can use the easiest hedging tool ever, BitOffer Bitcoin Options to avoid the loss and even maximize the profit with only a small amount budget because BitOffer Bitcoin Options requests 0 fees and 0 margins.

Don't chase the bottom price, a smart trader should make a smart strategy and hedge it to avoid the risk and earn more profits when the market fluctuates.

BTW, 6k is a support line for this period.

1. I mentioned about BitOffer Bitcoin Options because I think BitOffer Options is the easiest and the best hedging tool for bitcoin trading. And I was trying to tell everybody that the bitcoin price is going to go through the 4th gaining cycle.

2. History did repeat itself. Yes, you may right that the future may be influenced by different factors. But look back to financial history, we always can find our answer and do our analysis based on history.

3. I know that most of the traders use futures and options and leverage trading as a way to earn profits because of its high leverage. But one of the functions of financial derivatives is hedging your spot trading: Spending a low amount of budget to save the asset loss with high leverage. Every coin has 2 sides, it just depends on how you do it.
Sorry about that I am a rational trader, so I hedge my every transaction when the market fluctuates.

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