sklut

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   by sklut 7y ago

   How is a perpetual futures contract inherently better than "old-school futures"? It is my understanding what cyrpto calls a perpetual future _isn't_ a future which makes them difficult to compare. I'm reading this commen
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   by sklut 8y ago

   "CBOE and CME futures being cash settled in a joke" How do you mean? The CME S&P e-mini is cash settled. In fact all of the equity indexes futures products are cash settled. "...and removes any incentive for the risk asso
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   by sklut 9y ago

   I feel like a lot of the comments here are about how volatility of course will go up at some point and these guys had lucky timing, or about the market in general. But there's interesting tidbits to the whole thing beyond this. What&#x
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   Tronc buys majority stake of BestReviews at $100m+ valuation(techcrunch.com)

   1 points by sklut 9y ago|0 comments
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   by sklut 9y ago

   On contango: I would not call what the futures market is experiencing "massive" contango. There is a very slight premium to further dated futures ($35/btc Feb over Jan, and $5 Mar over Feb contracts on CME), but this is very