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1  Economy / Currency exchange / Re: [H] 1300$ Bitcoin [N] PayPal on: January 19, 2019, 02:51:24 PM
I can exchange a littlebit for you.
2  Economy / Currency exchange / [H] 230$ USD Paypal balance [W] 200$ BTC on: January 19, 2019, 02:34:48 PM
Exchanging 230 USD paypal to 200$ worth of btc. Give me a shout!
3  Economy / Trading Discussion / Shorting Bitcoin via Interactive Brokers on: September 21, 2018, 03:13:09 PM
Although I have plenty of trading experience the IBKR interface is quite intimidating - as is the margin requirements.

A few notes for those interested. Bear in mind this could be completely wrong! I'm posting here to make sure I"m not making a silly mistake!:

1) I believe the margin requirement is very high at 50%.

2) If you transfer funds in it will have to be fiat. You then open a short position via the java-like interface. Market orders are possible.  

3) I think funds have to be in USD. I believe if the funds are not in USD they will be automatically converted

4) You may need to wait a matter of days or weeks for the trade to settle.

5) Since this is a futures market you need to think about maturation date

6) Funds can't be quickly transferred in and then out again. I believe there is a holding delay.

7) You have access to the NYXBT, GXBT, BRTI and BRR through the interface. You also have access to stocks with 'bitcoin' in their name as it's a unified interface


Personally I just want to hedge a physical position into a neutrally speculated position so that if prices rise or fall I simply remain neutral. The big risk is that the tight margin means a short spike in price would mean a margin call.

As an aside, the owner of IB commented that BTC is very volatile - so volatile this could create contagion to trigger the derivatives time bomb.


edit because can't use reply. Forum bug says I've already replied:

The product code on IB is GXBT.

The margin requirements are massive. Perhaps I misunderstood what 70% means. The minimum quantity to short is 1BTC, which is currently ~$6300USD. But you need >$50,000USD free initial margin to cover the initial trade. So that's around 790%.

Personally I'm expect a slow, protracted grind down for BTC but clearly IB are still expecting price swings of 790%.

Interesting.

 
4  Other / Meta / How do I know if I was hacked? on: September 18, 2018, 11:42:02 AM
I always thought I was hacked because I never receive the password reset email.

However, I have searched my emails and I have never received the notification of email change.

Is there any way to tell what the (possibly new) email address associated is or isn't?

I registered another account (lk6) and recently the email was updated. I missed the email update notifier as it went to spam. I found it now. The accounts are unused and I get the impression these hacks were automated and probably from Russia.

The main account is jago25_98
I'm not expecting to get the account back... I just want to know if it's been hacked or not.
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