This Bitfinex Credit Bubble cannot end well - page 20.

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Quote from: gizmoh on August 04, 2014, 02:23:43 AM

Quote from: twiifm on August 04, 2014, 12:38:21 AM

Anyone here have experience offering swaps on bitfinex? I'm thinking about doing this and want to hear some real world experiences

Can PM me

Now is the riskiest time to offer USD swaps imo.

Agree, though I tend to think anything more than a flash crash is unlikely, and that BFX will roll back trades if necessary to save lenders, like they have before. But still, definitely risky, and interest rates are falling, so reward becoming less and less worth it.

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Quote from: twiifm on August 04, 2014, 12:38:21 AM

Anyone here have experience offering swaps on bitfinex? I'm thinking about doing this and want to hear some real world experiences

Can PM me

Now is the riskiest time to offer USD swaps imo.

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Anyone here have experience offering swaps on bitfinex? I'm thinking about doing this and want to hear some real world experiences

Can PM me

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Quote from: fonzie on August 02, 2014, 05:54:20 PM

Quote from: Mobius on August 02, 2014, 05:40:23 PM

Quote from: fonzie on August 02, 2014, 04:32:15 PM

Quote from: Markos on August 02, 2014, 04:00:36 PM

100-200 BTC on p500? I think I earned too much, because they limited my maximum positions to about 1000 USD (actually 25 BTC) a few monts ago Cry

BTW, in my country, taxes on derivatives (CFDs on bitcoin market) are lower than taxes on gains from bitcoins.

During the last bubble they lowered the available leverage(when they were using Gox) gradually from 1:17 to 1:10 to 1:5 and finally 1:2 . But after i haven´t traded there for a while (last time i used in early februar) it got reset. I just checked it again and it´s now possible for me to open up to 185BTC with a 17:1 leverage

Do you have a link to support this? I cannot speak about the leverage that they offered during the last bubble, but AFAIK they only offer 2.5:1 leverage as of now.

We were talking about Plus500 not Bitfinex, maybe you got that mixed up.

http://www.plus500.com/Instruments/btcusd

Isn't this thread about Bitfinex? I have personally never heard of plus500, but a quick look at their website shows that they offer 1:200 margin for some products, which is huge by any measure but much bigger then the 1:17 for BTC CFDs.

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Quote from: Yololintian on August 02, 2014, 10:45:46 PM

Quote from: Habeler876 on August 02, 2014, 04:07:40 PM

Quote from: Yololintian on July 30, 2014, 05:38:33 PM

Quote from: solex on July 30, 2014, 03:53:52 PM

Is this the massacre of the leveraged longs?

We aren't low enough for margin calls yet. They will start around 510 ish. The trend is just forced selling and people slowly catching on that the credit bubble was the reason we went from 450 to 680. The Massacre starts when we hit those margin calls.

We've had plenty of margin calls. That spike down to $520ish was margin calls (also why no one followed). At that time $660 longs had a $510 call. There was talk recently of someone being called on TV chat when we dropped below $590 on the way to $561. The truth is, we don't know how long they have been bleeding swap -- a lot will have been called sooner than you think.

There are new swaps being taken out and we don't know much about them, including whether they are being used to open positions or whether they are being used for full leverage. Gleaning much from these stats -- especially when China decides the market, not Bitfinex -- is a hazard to your trading portfolio. Case in point -- that 1k ask the other night? Check the stats. That was a bleeding long. Market didn't give a shit. My two cents.

That 1k was in the middle of a bulltrap, though. China may decide the market mostly, but Bitfinex will have a large effect once we get lower. As for bleeding longs, I'm pretty sure lots of them are taking the position to the end; they wouldn't have been squeezed yet, but are down significantly due to interest. I feel this way because there are an awful lot of bulltards in bitcoin and many many of them have been screaming bubble! bubble! bubble! for the past month. Well, I think they are right - we are in the credit bubble which will at some point collapse.

I see zero evidence for that. You can say otherwise all you want, but when Bitfinex wicks higher or lower, the market doesn't care, and it returns to the mean.

I'd also say that significantly less people are now saying bubble. Many in June were calling for it in July, and instead we down trended for a month straight. I see a lot of bulls turned bear, to be sure.

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Quote from: Habeler876 on August 02, 2014, 04:07:40 PM

Quote from: Yololintian on July 30, 2014, 05:38:33 PM

Quote from: solex on July 30, 2014, 03:53:52 PM

Is this the massacre of the leveraged longs?

We aren't low enough for margin calls yet. They will start around 510 ish. The trend is just forced selling and people slowly catching on that the credit bubble was the reason we went from 450 to 680. The Massacre starts when we hit those margin calls.

We've had plenty of margin calls. That spike down to $520ish was margin calls (also why no one followed). At that time $660 longs had a $510 call. There was talk recently of someone being called on TV chat when we dropped below $590 on the way to $561. The truth is, we don't know how long they have been bleeding swap -- a lot will have been called sooner than you think.

There are new swaps being taken out and we don't know much about them, including whether they are being used to open positions or whether they are being used for full leverage. Gleaning much from these stats -- especially when China decides the market, not Bitfinex -- is a hazard to your trading portfolio. Case in point -- that 1k ask the other night? Check the stats. That was a bleeding long. Market didn't give a shit. My two cents.

That 1k was in the middle of a bulltrap, though. China may decide the market mostly, but Bitfinex will have a large effect once we get lower. As for bleeding longs, I'm pretty sure lots of them are taking the position to the end; they wouldn't have been squeezed yet, but are down significantly due to interest. I feel this way because there are an awful lot of bulltards in bitcoin and many many of them have been screaming bubble! bubble! bubble! for the past month. Well, I think they are right - we are in the credit bubble which will at some point collapse.

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Quote from: fonzie on August 02, 2014, 05:54:20 PM

Quote from: Mobius on August 02, 2014, 05:40:23 PM

Quote from: fonzie on August 02, 2014, 04:32:15 PM

Quote from: Markos on August 02, 2014, 04:00:36 PM

100-200 BTC on p500? I think I earned too much, because they limited my maximum positions to about 1000 USD (actually 25 BTC) a few monts ago Cry

BTW, in my country, taxes on derivatives (CFDs on bitcoin market) are lower than taxes on gains from bitcoins.

During the last bubble they lowered the available leverage(when they were using Gox) gradually from 1:17 to 1:10 to 1:5 and finally 1:2 . But after i haven´t traded there for a while (last time i used in early februar) it got reset. I just checked it again and it´s now possible for me to open up to 185BTC with a 17:1 leverage

Do you have a link to support this? I cannot speak about the leverage that they offered during the last bubble, but AFAIK they only offer 2.5:1 leverage as of now.

We were talking about Plus500 not Bitfinex, maybe you got that mixed up.

http://www.plus500.com/Instruments/btcusd

Unfortunately, some of us in the US are not able to open accounts at plus500.

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i am interested. who tried margin trading out? whats your gain in %?

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Quote from: Mobius on August 02, 2014, 05:40:23 PM

Quote from: fonzie on August 02, 2014, 04:32:15 PM

Quote from: Markos on August 02, 2014, 04:00:36 PM

100-200 BTC on p500? I think I earned too much, because they limited my maximum positions to about 1000 USD (actually 25 BTC) a few monts ago Cry

BTW, in my country, taxes on derivatives (CFDs on bitcoin market) are lower than taxes on gains from bitcoins.

During the last bubble they lowered the available leverage(when they were using Gox) gradually from 1:17 to 1:10 to 1:5 and finally 1:2 . But after i haven´t traded there for a while (last time i used in early februar) it got reset. I just checked it again and it´s now possible for me to open up to 185BTC with a 17:1 leverage

Do you have a link to support this? I cannot speak about the leverage that they offered during the last bubble, but AFAIK they only offer 2.5:1 leverage as of now.

We were talking about Plus500 not Bitfinex, maybe you got that mixed up.

http://www.plus500.com/Instruments/btcusd

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Quote from: fonzie on August 02, 2014, 04:32:15 PM

Quote from: Markos on August 02, 2014, 04:00:36 PM

100-200 BTC on p500? I think I earned too much, because they limited my maximum positions to about 1000 USD (actually 25 BTC) a few monts ago Cry

BTW, in my country, taxes on derivatives (CFDs on bitcoin market) are lower than taxes on gains from bitcoins.

During the last bubble they lowered the available leverage(when they were using Gox) gradually from 1:17 to 1:10 to 1:5 and finally 1:2 . But after i haven´t traded there for a while (last time i used in early februar) it got reset. I just checked it again and it´s now possible for me to open up to 185BTC with a 17:1 leverage

Do you have a link to support this? I cannot speak about the leverage that they offered during the last bubble, but AFAIK they only offer 2.5:1 leverage as of now.

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Oh, I didn't explain exactly. In theory, I can open 185 BTC position with 1:17 leverage. In practice max 25-50 BTC(actually 25), though I have money for a larger position. Depending on the BTC price, the value of position cannot be greater than 1000 USD.

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Quote from: Markos on August 02, 2014, 04:00:36 PM

100-200 BTC on p500? I think I earned too much, because they limited my maximum positions to about 1000 USD (actually 25 BTC) a few monts ago Cry

BTW, in my country, taxes on derivatives (CFDs on bitcoin market) are lower than taxes on gains from bitcoins.

During the last bubble they lowered the available leverage(when they were using Gox) gradually from 1:17 to 1:10 to 1:5 and finally 1:2 . But after i haven´t traded there for a while (last time i used in early februar) it got reset. I just checked it again and it´s now possible for me to open up to 185BTC with a 17:1 leverage

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Quote from: Yololintian on July 30, 2014, 05:38:33 PM

Quote from: solex on July 30, 2014, 03:53:52 PM

Is this the massacre of the leveraged longs?

We aren't low enough for margin calls yet. They will start around 510 ish. The trend is just forced selling and people slowly catching on that the credit bubble was the reason we went from 450 to 680. The Massacre starts when we hit those margin calls.

We've had plenty of margin calls. That spike down to $520ish was margin calls (also why no one followed). At that time $660 longs had a $510 call. There was talk recently of someone being called on TV chat when we dropped below $590 on the way to $561. The truth is, we don't know how long they have been bleeding swap -- a lot will have been called sooner than you think.

There are new swaps being taken out and we don't know much about them, including whether they are being used to open positions or whether they are being used for full leverage. Gleaning much from these stats -- especially when China decides the market, not Bitfinex -- is a hazard to your trading portfolio. Case in point -- that 1k ask the other night? Check the stats. That was a bleeding long. Market didn't give a shit. My two cents.

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100-200 BTC on p500? I think I earned too much, because they limited my maximum positions to about 1000 USD (actually 25 BTC) a few monts ago Cry

BTW, in my country, taxes on derivatives (CFDs on bitcoin market) are lower than taxes on gains from bitcoins.

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Quote from: myself on August 02, 2014, 03:29:03 PM

Quote from: fonzie on August 01, 2014, 03:33:01 PM

It´s Plus500 (not available for US citizens as far as i know). They are using the BTC-e price, but they don´t open real postions on BTC-E which means that they have no influence @ all on the BTC-e market unlike Bitfinex.

http://www.plus500.com/

first they dont offer that for US and other country because CFD are illegal in US, imo bitcoin CFD should be allowed but US is US

second they do trade on btc-e because they need to hedge themselves like any CFD broker

Do you have any proof for that? I have opened positions for about 100-200 BTC on plus500 and quite often there has only been a overall volume for about 10-40 BTC for the next hour after i opened my trade.

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Quote from: fonzie on August 01, 2014, 03:33:01 PM

It´s Plus500 (not available for US citizens as far as i know). They are using the BTC-e price, but they don´t open real postions on BTC-E which means that they have no influence @ all on the BTC-e market unlike Bitfinex.

http://www.plus500.com/

first they dont offer that for US and other country because CFD are illegal in US, imo bitcoin CFD should be allowed but US is US

second they do trade on btc-e because they need to hedge themselves like any CFD broker

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Quote from: Yololintian on July 30, 2014, 05:38:33 PM

... and people slowly catching on that the credit ... was the reason we went from 450 to 680...

This is actually a quite scary thought.

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Quote from: ensurance982 on August 01, 2014, 04:21:59 PM

So, the bubble is growing again. Ha, I'm really wondering how this is going to play out... Some people say a credit bubble won't be a problem at all, others say it's going to crash... Phew... Well, maybe one bubble will lead to another one... You know which one I'm talking about Wink

Wouldn't it just increase volatility. If we go up, we'll go up more because they'll win their bets and be able to put in more. If we start going down they'll get wiped out and it will make the down draft hurt more. I think it is just the normal situation with a multiplier.

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So, the bubble is growing again. Ha, I'm really wondering how this is going to play out... Some people say a credit bubble won't be a problem at all, others say it's going to crash... Phew... Well, maybe one bubble will lead to another one... You know which one I'm talking about Wink

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Quote from: fonzie on August 01, 2014, 03:33:01 PM

It´s Plus500 (not available for US citizens as far as i know). They are using the BTC-e price, but they don´t open real postions on BTC-E which means that they have no influence @ all on the BTC-e market unlike Bitfinex.

http://www.plus500.com/

First of all, oops (on the name). Second, thanks for the info. I just learned something. Word.

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