A few weeks ago i talked about the decline of Bitcoin since the start of the XBTUSD trading on CBOE (see profile) and wondered if market manipulation had any correlation to the expiry of those contracts. From the beginning of trading these contracts on Dec 11th 2017 until the expiry of the second contract on Feb 14th 2018 Bitcoin saw a fall of 47%.
Does anybody...
I’ve drawn on this chart to show you the big fall from the initial listing of the first CBOE futures contract for Bitcoin (XBT/F8) until it’s expiry date (yesterday). From $17,285 on 11 Dec (first full day of trading) all the way down to the contract’s settlement at $11,055 yesterday (a fall of 36%).
In the days following Dec 11 Bitcoin recorded an all-time high...
