[ANN] Quedex Derivatives Exchange - WIN 3.14159265 BTC in a Trading Challenge

[quedex]

Challenge finished!

We are pleased to announce Quedex Bitcoin Derivatives Exchange, a complete derivatives market enabling both hedgers and speculators to trade futures and options on currencies in one place.

This is also an occasion to announce our trading challenge - and to make the experience of testing the platform even more pleasurable, we will reward you with 3.14159265 BTC!

Trading Challenge

The rules are simple:

• register (for free) an account and get 100 "virtual" BTC for trading
• earn points for trading and other activity
• boost your points by recommending Quedex
• after each round of the competition the best score receives 1.04719755 BTC
• bug bounty - rewards awarded on case by case basis
• win by whatever means necessary - we allow hacking

Round 1: 12 Aug - 19 Aug
Round 2: 19 Aug - 26 Aug
Round 3: 26 Aug - 02 Sep

More details at quedex.net/challenge.

Want to know more? See the Exchange Features:

Bitcoin-denominated
All deposits and withdrawals are made in Bitcoin, all profits are in Bitcoin and all margining is done in Bitcoin.

Top security
100% security based on end-to-end OpenPGP encryption and full cold storage.

Trading app and PGP API
You can trade securely both through our app and PGP API.

Everything in one place
Now you can trade futures and options on the same platform, and use diverse range of instruments and maturities to hedge your exposition or create perfect position. This includes:

• real forward volatility trading - you can easily exploit the difference between implied and realized volatility of the bitcoin exchange rate by purchasing calls and puts and profit form upside and downside moves
• naked option selling - now you can enhance your yield from bitcoins by writing options on your positions or simply gain the option premium with reasonable margins and no need to fully cover your option positions
• protect fiat value of your bitcoin holdings - simply by purchasing futures or call options on USD or CNY
• physical delivery coming soon!

Two matching models
Quedex offers Auctions in addition to most commonly met continuous trading. This allows to concentrate liquidity on market openings and settlements while at the same time minimising volatility.

All feedback is most welcome! Let us know here or write to contact@quedex.net.

Download our app from here: https://quedex.net/trading_app and see how you can profit with Quedex.

[Patatas]

Interesting challenge! This will surely attract traders here
Good luck to your project OP

[foxkyu]

so this challenge using virtual btc, no real btc for start trading??
very interesting service. and trading app so far is safe. worth to try 
https://www.virustotal.com/ro/url/95536508f720ddaae3bdc1b52aa8bdfc88976c9a3f6107702bc652be4d9321cf/analysis/1439121578/

[quedex]

foxkyu,

Yes, the Challenge does not require you to deposit any real BTC. You get 100 virtual BTC credited to your account. Nevertheless, the rewards are very much real
Oh, and thank you for the analysis. You can browse the app source on https://github.com/quedexnet/quedexapp (and run the app from it).

Patatas,

We hope so - and any more feedback from you is welcome!

[chriswen]

Here's the results for the windows app

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/05b74652e45aad80f008824c3b8756b69ad8326280f0ca6da4bbc13a64958ca0/analysis/1439217053/

[quedex]

Here's the results for the windows app

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/05b74652e45aad80f008824c3b8756b69ad8326280f0ca6da4bbc13a64958ca0/analysis/1439217053/

We're quite sure that what virustotal has found are false-positives. The app was compiled on a clean install of original Windows 7. You may compile our app by yourself (from the source) and check that virustotal will give the same warnings as for our file (which will prove that we didn't "add" anything). Anyone wants to help us with the audit?

We also found that:

The Riskware.Win32.Crypter.dpjgbl is a false positive - it's detected in a number of popular programs (like GnuPG version 1.4.19, which is included in our binary, from http://ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnupg/gnupg-1.4.19.tar.gz ), cf. https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/ff4979980b00773c414c3cd5571eae8cc3916d3607e9621400f0302f1e138882/analysis/ ).
The WS.Reputation.1 thing means "Symantec doesn't actually see any virus" (cf. https://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2010-051308-1854-99 ).

Nevertheless, thanks for the check.

edit: Please also check out the latest analysis of this file, it's free of the false positive "TrojanSpy.Python.l": https://www.virustotal.com/ro/file/05b74652e45aad80f008824c3b8756b69ad8326280f0ca6da4bbc13a64958ca0/analysis/

edit2: We've released a new version of the app, which uses GnuPG 2, and thus got rid of the false positive "Riskware.Win32.Crypter.dpjgbl": https://www.virustotal.com/ro/file/398cae74791c9e30dbef713bbc76f07ff12cb4db9ce585cfeb4c2098fcafa673/analysis/1439367417/

edit3: False alarms problem have been solved in the new version https://quedex.net/trading_app: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/398cae74791c9e30dbef713bbc76f07ff12cb4db9ce585cfeb4c2098fcafa673/analysis/

[quedex]

The Challenge starts today 19:00 UTC! Good luck!

[quedex]

And the winner of Round 0 is the user with nickname: jiecut! Congratulations!

[quedex]

The Round 1 of the Challenge is launched! The balances of all participants have been set to 100BTC and points reset to zero.

Good luck!

[tyrexs]

nice competion! i'm late if joined now because i just read your thread. when this competition end,hm i mean when announcement the winner

[quedex]

You are not late! Round 1, which has started yesterday ends on 19 Aug and it's not too late to win! Every day counts!

There are also two more Rounds:
Round 2: 19 Aug - 26 Aug
Round 3: 26 Aug - 02 Sep

Feel free to join now and good luck!

[jdebunt]

This is definitely an interesting spin on derivative trading...Good luck to all competitors

[quedex]

To make the Challenge even more thrilling, we've added Round Profit&Loss to the Challenge ranking: https://quedex.net/challenge/ranking - now you may clearly see your performance compared to the others!

[quedex]

Following the demand and user requests, we've introduced F.BTCUSD - a futures contract on BTCUSD exchange rate treated as a synthetic index!

[tyrexs]

To make the Challenge even more thrilling, we've added Round Profit&Loss to the Challenge ranking: https://quedex.net/challenge/ranking - now you may clearly see your performance compared to the others!

i'm wait to round 2 can i join now for competition round two or i must wait to date 19 august to joined. thank you dude

[quedex]

i'm wait to round 2 can i join now for competition round two or i must wait to date 19 august to joined. thank you dude

Yes, sure, you may join now. You don't lose anything and may familiarize yourself with the platform before round 2 begins.

[quedex]

Round 1 of the Challenge has finished! The winners are (nicks from the competition):

 1. Armadillo - 1181 points
 2. szerlok - 892 points
 3. shehrozebhatti37 - 722

They've all received 3 months of commission-free trading, moreover Armadillo has received 1.04719755 BTC! Congratulations!

Round 2 starts today, 19th Aug, at 19:00 UTC! Good luck!

[quedex]

Round 2 of the Challenge has finished! The winners are (nicks from the competition):

 1. Armadillo - 979 points
 2. trocin_ - 425 points
 3. dextereX - 355

They've all received 3 months of commission-free trading, moreover Armadillo has received 1.04719755 BTC! Congratulations!

Armadillo wins for the second time with an impressive PnL!

Round 3 starts today, 26th Aug, at 19:00 UTC! Another 1.04719755 BTC still to win!

Good luck!

[Blawpaw]

Great and original exchange. I especially enjoyed the futures trading feature.

That's a feature that most digital currency exchanges should introduce.

[tadakaluri]

Hi, I am join today with user name 'tadakaluri' in round 3.

The interface of the trading platform really great.  Works like a charm.