How to increase leverage in digital currency arbitrage
Now the popular digital currency futures is bitcoin futures. On December 11, 2017, Beijing time, CBOE launched the bitcoin futures XBT, and the market reaction was hot, triggering the circuit breaker mechanism many times. CME of Chicago Mercantile Exchange launched bitcoin futures BTC on December 18, 2017, which brought about great fluctuation
the two major bitcoin futures procts have the following similarities and differences, which are worth noting:
1. XBT unit is 1 bitcoin, BTC is 5 bitcoins
The minimum price change: XBT is $10 / bitcoin, BTC is $5 / bitcoin XBT trading time is from 7:00 on Monday to 6:00 on Saturday, Beijing time; BCT trading time is from 7:00 on Monday to 4:15 on Saturday, Beijing time4. The position limit was 5000
Price circuit breaker mechanism: XBT price fluctuates more than 10% of the previous day's closing price, trading is suspended for 2 minutes, more than 20%, trading is suspended for 5 minutes; The BTC price fluctuates more than 7% or 13% of the closing price of the previous day, triggering the circuit breaker mechanism. The specific suspension time has not been disclosed. If it exceeds 20%, the trading will stop XBT requires 44% initial margin, which is about 2 times leverage; BTC Requires 35% of the initial margin, which is about 3 times the leverage. It is worth noting that both exchanges have indicated that the margin amount can be adjusted according to the actual situationLeverage is a common financial transaction system, namely margin system
Leverage trading is also called virtual trading and deposit trading. That is to say, investors use their own funds as guarantee to enlarge the financing provided by banks or brokers to carry out foreign exchange transactions, that is, to enlarge the trading funds of investors. The proportion of financing is generally decided by banks or brokers. The larger the proportion of financing is, the less capital customers need to pay
leverage trading operation process:
1. Take BTC / usdt as an example, if the platform supports up to three times leverage
when judging that the price of bitcoin will rise from 10000 usdt to 20000 usdt, if you have 10000 usdt of principal, you can borrow up to 20000 usdt from the platform. Use 30000 usdt to buy 3btc at the price of 10000 usdt and sell it at the price of 20000 usdt, with a profit of 3btc * (20000-10000) = 30000 usdt
2. Take BTC / usdt as an example, if the platform supports up to 3 times leverage
when it is judged that the price of bitcoin will drop from 20000 usdt to 10000 usdt, with a principal of 10000 usdt (0.5btc), you can borrow 1btc from the platform, sell one bitcoin at 20000 usdt, and buy it at 10000 usdt, making a profit of 10000 usdt
if you only trade with your own funds, you can only buy low and sell high, not short
3. Calculation method of leverage lending rate:
from the time of applying for leverage, the interest will be calculated as 24 hours in less than 24 hours, and the loan funds and interest will be returned when the leverage is returned
4, the risk of leverage Trading:
leverage makes use of less capital to realize the possibility of obtaining greater returns. But if the wrong direction of the transaction is judged, the loss will also be enlarged year on year. Therefore, ordinary traders try to avoid the high leverage of heavy trading, to prevent the occurrence of burst positions or even through positions
(1) reasonable use of leverage ratio and control of position (2) stop profit and loss timely and close positions spontaneously (3) margin should be added in time to ensure that the ratio of total assets to leverage is greater than 110%extended data
related functions of leverage Trading:
1. Loan account:
each loan transaction pair corresponds to a loan account. For example, ETH / BTC will correspond to an eth / BTC loan account (including two sub accounts of Eth and BTC)
users can transfer Eth and BTC monetary assets in the transaction account to eth / BTC lending account; Eth / BTC loan account can be applied for loan in two types of currency assets: Eth and BTC
2. Fund transfer:
users can't recharge to the loan account directly for the time being, so they can transfer the funds from the transaction account to the loan account by fund transfer
(1) when the user borrows, the part of the loan account with a risk rate higher than 200% can be transferred out to the transaction account
(2) when the user has no loan, all the available funds in the account can be transferred out to the transaction account
3. Apply for loan:
the user enters the loan management and selects the loan account to apply for loan assets. The amount of digital currency that the user can apply for loan depends on the account principal and platform leverage ratio. The maximum amount of loan that the user can apply for is net asset conversion (BTC) × Multiple - 1) - borrowed assets
for example, if the maximum leverage ratio of the platform is 3 times, the number of digital currencies that users can borrow is 2 times of the principal
how to use leverage
1. Long (buy up)
here, take BTC / usdt leverage trading as an example (usdt vs. US dollar, 1 usdt = US dollar) to introce how to use bitcoin leverage. Assuming that the current price of bitcoin is US $10000, and you predict that the price will rise in the near future, you can choose to be long.
if you have only 10000 usdt principal and the platform is triple leverage, you can borrow another 20000 usdt from the trading platform, so the principal is now 30000 usdt; If it is 5 times leverage, it can borrow 40000 usdt, 10 times leverage is 90000 usdt... And so on
buy three bitcoins with 30000 usdt, sell them when they reach 20000 usdt, and get 60000 US dollars of bitcoin, dect 10000 principal and 20000 loan, and make a profit of 30000 US dollars
if you don't use leverage trading, you can only make a profit of 10000 usdt if you buy a bitcoin at 10000 usdt
of course, if the judgment is wrong, bitcoin will only lose 5000 usdt in currency trading and 15000 usdt in leverage trading
2. Short (buy down)
take BTC / usdt triple leverage trading as an example. At present, the price of bitcoin is 20000 usdt. If you think that the price of bitcoin will drop to 10000 usdt, and you have 10000 usdt in your hand, you can borrow one bitcoin from the platform (short can only borrow the currency you choose to short), and sell it when the price of bitcoin is 20000 usdt, Then, when the bitcoin price is 10000 usdt, buy it back to the platform, and you can make a profit of 10000 usdt
in fact, bitcoin leveraged trading plays a role in amplifying revenue, but it also magnifies risk
there are many digital currency trading platforms, and the main procts promoted by each platform are also different. Some are mainly spot trading, and some are futures trading. Among them, futures trading is contract trading, that is, leverage. The better platforms are coin stations, which can be seen by contract friends.
implementation steps
1. Calculate the theoretical price of stock index futures, and estimate the upper and lower boundaries of no arbitrage range of stock index futures contract. The upper and lower bounds of no arbitrage range are related to many parameters, such as the loan interest rate, market liquidity, market shock cost, transaction fees and so on. After determining the parameters and substituting into the formula, we can get the suitable non arbitrage interval. Because the arbitrage opportunity is fleeting, the calculation of no arbitrage interval should be completed in time. In practice, it is often carried out with the help of computer programmed trading
2. Judge whether there are arbitrage opportunities. By monitoring the price trend of futures contract and comparing with no arbitrage range, we can judge whether there is arbitrage opportunity. Only when the futures price falls above or below the upper bound of no arbitrage range, can there be operational arbitrage opportunity
3. To determine the transaction scale, we should consider the expected profit level when determining the transaction scale. The impact of the transaction scale on the market, too large transaction scale will cause high impact cost, which will rece the arbitrage profit. In addition, we should also consider the possibility of financing and securities lending. We can do reverse basis arbitrage
4. Conct stock index futures contract and stock trading at the same time
5. Monitor the profit and loss of arbitrage position to determine whether to increase or decrease positions.
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