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Futures Trading Will Intensify Bitcoin’s Volatility

Julio Gil-Pulgar by Julio Gil-Pulgar
3 years ago
in Bitcoin, Bitcoin Businesses, Bitcoin Exchange, Bitcoin Investment, Markets and Prices, News, News teaser
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Bitcoin is intrinsically volatile due to many factors. One of them is Bitcoin’s inelastic nature. On top of that, experts now forecast that the upcoming futures trading will further exacerbate Bitcoin’s volatility. As a result, cryptocurrency exchanges are already taking precautionary measures.


Bitcoin’s Volatility About to Increase

Bitcoin’s Volatility About to Increase

Bitcoin’s price fluctuations are wild. Its price can swing by more than $3,000 USD in just a few hours. Traditionally, volatility is measured by the volatility index, also known as the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX). However, as of this writing, Bitcoin does not yet have a generally accepted index.

Bitcoin futures trading is here. CBOE Global Markets will start trading Bitcoin futures (XBT) on December 10, 2017. Then CME Group will launch Bitcoin futures, based on the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate (BRR), on December 18, 2017. And, according to Bloomberg, NASDAQ might be planning to launch Bitcoin futures sometime in 2018.

How will futures trading affect Bitcoin’s price volatility? Nobody knows.

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Allice Lloyd George, an investor at RRE Ventures, posed this very question to Arthur Hayes, CEO of BitMEX, who already has firsthand experience running cryptocurrency derivatives exchanges in Hong Kong. George asked Hayes whether futures markets will help the ecosystem and smooth out volatility. Hayes replied:

Initially, because of the way these contracts are structured, they will actually increase the volatility of Bitcoin.

In fact, Bitcoin exchanges are getting ready to face an upsurge in volatility when the trading of Bitcoin futures contracts starts. Already, Bitcoin is swinging to the downside by a fifth of its value, hours before the starting of futures trading.

Bitcoin’s Inelasticity Drives its Price Volatility

Bitcoin’s Inelasticity Drives its Price Volatility

There is an array of factors that drives Bitcoin’s volatility, such as adverse press which in turn affects adoption rate. In addition, other factors are government treatment of the cryptocurrency, and hackings of Bitcoin exchanges.

Moreover, Bitcoin is inherently volatile because of its illiquidity. By design, only 21 million bitcoins will ever be mined. This lack of liquidity makes Bitcoin inflation-resistant and incentivizes miners. Furthermore, illiquidity makes Bitcoin inelastic, and hence volatile.

Investopedia defines elasticity:

Elasticity refers the degree to which individuals, consumers or producers change their demand or the amount supplied in response to price or income changes.

As Erik Norland, Executive Director and Senior Economist, CME Group, explains:

No matter how high prices go, miners will not produce more than 21 million coins. Moreover, price increases won’t necessarily incentivize a more rapid mining of bitcoin. Even if they did, it would only influence miners to create more bitcoin today at the expense of creating less in the future since the total supply will reach a hard, asymptotic limit of 21 million coins. The supply inelasticity explains in large part why bitcoin is so volatile.

Bitcoin is a battle-tested, sturdy animal. Time and again, it has demonstrated itself to be remarkably resilient. Now, Bitcoin is about to be tested by the new environment that futures trading will impose. Bitcoin will undoubtedly show once again its inherent capacity to quickly adjust to an ever-changing environment, and then, with renewed force, it will continue its ever ascending trajectory.

How do you think futures trading will affect Bitcoin’s volatility?? Let us know in the comments below!


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Julio has worked for Fortune 100 companies and the United Nations. He has led projects involving IT, operational, and compliance audits, in the U.S. and throughout the world. His expertise is in cryptocurrencies, IT engineering, risk management, and security. Julio is also a tango dance enthusiast.

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