Bitcoin Options? Other Derivatives?

[neilol]

Any exchanges offer or plan to offer option contract creation on bitcoin itself?

Would be interested to see what kind of premiums 2-4 year LEAP contracts would fetch

 

[stslimited]

hopefully the winklevosses' ETF gets approved, then its just one call to the CBOE and the options will be trading


796.com offers liquid bitcoin futures

[xchrisxsays]

Any exchanges offer or plan to offer option contract creation on bitcoin itself?

Would be interested to see what kind of premiums 2-4 year LEAP contracts would fetch

 

Hey neilol, can you point me to any good literature on options writing/trading? Trying to learn more about this aspect of trading. Thanks!

[neilol]

Any exchanges offer or plan to offer option contract creation on bitcoin itself?

Would be interested to see what kind of premiums 2-4 year LEAP contracts would fetch

 

Hey neilol, can you point me to any good literature on options writing/trading? Trying to learn more about this aspect of trading. Thanks!

http://www.investopedia.com/university/options/

A decent article at first review. There are probably better but just start getting a grasp of the terms and concepts.

[DrGregMulhauser]

...can you point me to any good literature on options writing/trading? Trying to learn more about this aspect of trading.

The 'Bible' of options investing is McMillan's Options as a Strategic Investment.

Incidentally, the 796.com 'futures' are futures only in name; they're something more akin to a CFD and look quite a bit like a messier version of the BTC.sx offering. ICBIT offers 'real' futures. (There's another BTC/USD derivative available which you'll sometimes see mentioned, but unless you fancy usurious implied volatility and bid/ask spreads, it's hardly worth exploring.)

More on the general topic of Bitcoin derivatives is available in this article:

Bitcoin Derivatives, Liquidity and Counterparty Risk