Trading

Trading

Markets

Traders Rotate to Bitcoin Expecting a Quiet Q4 for Altcoins

Some traders anticipate the leading cryptocurrency to significantly outperforming the entire crypto market for at least the next several months.

Year to date returns for cryptocurrencies group by liquid market capitalization

Policy

CFTC Charges Firm With Illegally Providing Leveraged Trading of Crypto, Gold

A Caribbean-based firm is in hot water with the CFTC for allegedly allowing U.S. retail investors to partake in leveraged trading of cryptocurrencies and precious metals.

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Markets

Robinhood, Other Online Trading Platforms Having Login Issues

The reported outages affect Robinhood, Charles Schwab, TD Ameritrade and others.

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Markets

Japanese Financial Giant SBI Holdings Launches Short-Term Crypto Derivatives

Already live on SBI's forex trading platform, the contracts for difference (CFDs) are available in bitcoin, ether and XRP flavors.

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Markets

Binance’s Bitcoin 'Bid-Ask Spreads' Tighten as Cryptocurrency Markets Mature

The narrowing gap between bitcoin buy and sell orders on big exchanges like Binance shows an increasing depth to cryptocurrency markets.

Binance CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao (CoinDesk archives, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Barstool's Dave Portnoy Is Bad at Trading Cryptocurrency

The day trader now owns zero bitcoins after one week of trading.

CME trading floor (Joseph Sohm/Shutterstock)

Finance

Bequant, Now in Crowded Prime Brokerage Race, Adds Signature Bank Integration

In a newly crowded market, Bequant is still adding features to the suite of services it's been building for the past two years.

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Finance

Decentralized Exchange dYdX Debuts Ether Perpetual Swaps

Perpetual swaps that track the price of ether are coming to dYdX, the company announced Tuesday.

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Finance

Genesis' Crypto Lending Rebounds in 2Q; Firm Acknowledges Unsecured Loans

Genesis’ crypto lending arm came back strong in 2Q after a rocky 1Q. Separately, executives acknowledged the firm makes some uncollateralized loans.

Genesis CEO Michael Moro (CoinDesk archive, modified using PhotoMosh)

Finance

Crypto Trading Firm B2C2 Eyes Prime Brokerage Space With $30M Stake Sale to SBI

B2C2 wants to use its new partnership with SBI Holdings as a route to becoming a crypto prime broker.

B2C2 founder Max Boonen (CoinDesk archives)