The CME Group, the world’s largest futures exchange, opened up bitcoin futures for trading at 6 p.m. EST on Sunday under the ticker “BTC”. The reference price, from which price limits are set, is $19,600 for the February contract, $19,700 for March and $19,900 for June.
Unlike the 19% surge in CBOE bitcoin futures during their first day of trading a week ago — the CME futures fell 4% to $18,760 about four hours after opening at $20,650 and rising slightly. Volume on CME was recently at 590 contracts, while on its debut on December 10, the Cboe traded nearly 4,000 contracts during the full session.
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