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Top 7 Ways to Short Bitcoin

The vast majority of Bitcoin speculation occurs through long and short positions across trading platforms. Longing and shorting has been a more favorable solution for most national currencies and assets over the past few years. Bitcoin speculators rely on these same tools to guesstimate how the price will evolve in the coming hours, days, and weeks. Given the current BTC price trend, shorting Bitcoin becomes quite appealing. Below is a brief list of ways to short Bitcoin and – hopefully – make a profit while doing so.

#7 Bitcoin Margin Trading

One of the most common ways to short Bitcoin is by using a cryptocurrency margin trading platform. A lot of major Bitcoin exchanges give users this opportunity, albeit some specialized trading platforms are worth checking out. By using margin trading, one essentially “borrows” money from a broker to make a trade. Do keep in mind there is also a leverage factor, which can exponentially increase your profits – and losses.

#6 The Bitcoin Futures Market

Another popular option to short Bitcoin without friction is by venturing into the futures market. A future is a financial contract where a buyer agreed to purchase a security, which is represented by Bitcoin in this case. This security is to be purchased at a future date and a fixed price. In most cases, the person buying a futures contract feels the price per Bitcoin will go up, and they will be able to purchase Bitcoin below the market price when the contract “expires”.

Selling a Bitcoin futures contract indicates a bearish mindset and an expectation of how the Bitcoin price will decline by the predetermined date. Right now, there will be a fair few futures contracts for sale, as the Bitcoin market is in a downward spiral. Selling futures contracts is an excellent way to short Bitcoin.

#5 Lending To Short Bitcoin

Several platforms allow users to receive a loan to short Bitcoin . While this is a rather complicated and lengthy process – including a credit check – it is a great way to short Bitcoin. More importantly, clients using such a service will remain anonymous to the public, yet have their identity verified by the company providing the service. For more privacy-centric users, this may not necessarily be the best solution, even though it is worth checking out.

#4 Binary Options Trading

CALL and PUT Options trading is another opportunity for people looking to short Bitcoin. People looking to short Bitcoin would execute a PUT order, preferably using an Escrow service. Traders who feel the price will go down aim to secure the ability to sell Bitcoin at today’s market price, even if a downward trend would occur. Speculators using a PUT option, provide an incentive to potential buyers in the form of an even lower price per Bitcoin than who the speculator hopes to get. For example, if someone wants to short Bitcoin at the value of US$750, yet wants to secure that price even when the value drops to US$700, they could settle to sell for US$725 as a “premium”.

#3 Bitcoin Options

A Bitcoin option is slightly more advanced than its binary option counterpart. A fall in Bitcoin value will earn a profit, which is exactly what shorting Bitcoin is all about. Options allow speculators to bet the value of Bitcoin will be lower by a specific date or how it won’t reach a particular threshold above its current price within a period. Using Bitcoin options can be done through one of the many platforms or speculators can create their own.

#2 Prediction Markets

Even though prediction markets are a relatively new development in the cryptocurrency world, they can be used to great advantage to short Bitcoin. A prediction market allows anyone to create any event they like, and wage on the outcome. For example, one could create an event, stating how Bitcoin’s price will drop to US$xxx by y date. If anyone takes up the speculator on that bet and loses, the speculator will have effectively shorted Bitcoin and made a profit Keep in mind prediction markets are rarely used to short Bitcoin right now, and this may not be the best solution to make a profit.

#1 Short-selling Bitcoin Assets

The rare breed of cryptocurrency speculators who wants to buy and sell actual Bitcoins can look into short-selling Bitcoin. This works as follows: sell Bitcoin at a price you feel comfortable at, wait until the price drops, and buy Bitcoin again. Although this is how most “traditional” traders make money, it is an efficient way of shorting Bitcoin. The only downside is how getting the price movement wrong will result in a net Bitcoin loss. Buy low and sell high is the most efficient way to publicly short Bitcoin and try to persuade other traders to do so as well.

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About The Author

JP Buntinx is a FinTech and Bitcoin enthusiast living in Belgium. His passion for finance and technology made him one of the world's leading freelance Bitcoin writers, and he aims to achieve the same level of respect in the FinTech sector.

Interesting article, shorting my Bitcoin position for August 2017 when hard or soft fork happens. Options seems good, an insurance premium in case the price falls. I am guessing a lot of Crypto market cap will also go into Ethereum, its probable Ethereum will be the number one market cap coin by then anyway.

Jeeezzz…. remind me to never take advice from you ..

I would be extremely happy with that.

lol how’d that short work out for you buddy?

Good, shorted down to 1900 then went long 😉

Been looking into this, how does one obtain the assets to short in the first place? Referencing the #1 point which you have made.

This article is worthless. Doesn’t say where each of these venues are….

Good thing I got my adblock on, author bishhhhhhhhh

Looks like it topped at 4430. Goldman Sachs (chief technician Sheba Jafari) came out (August 14) and said they have a 4827 price target. When people come out to give higher price targets, they have already marked the top and want people to provide support as they exit the market. At least they tell you when they are about to pick your pocket.

“Buy low and sell high is the most efficient way to publicly short Bitcoin and try to persuade other traders to do so as well.”

I thought in the case of a short the whole point is to buy high and sell low….

“Several platforms allow users to receive a loan to short Bitcoin….” Several like…?

How to short bitcoins (if you really must)

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The rise of bitcoin, an electronic currency traded on an online exchange, has generated a media frenzy. Once scoffed at, its value has risen by 631% (denominated in dollars) since the start of 2013.

Lots of people think that means we’re in a bitcoin bubble and it will eventually pop. But if you’re one of these bitcoin bears, it’s not easy for you to “short” it—i.e., bet that its value will go down.

The usual way to short a currency is to use a currency pair—something like EUR/USD, the value of a euro denominated in dollars—which trades as a single unit. For example, if the euro was trading at $1.3000, you would “borrow” a currency pair from your broker, which you have to return within a certain period of time, and sell it on the open market, pocketing $1.30. If after an hour EUR/USD is trading at $1.2950, you can buy the currency pair at that price and return it to your broker, making a profit of $0.0050. (If you’re wrong, you lose out.)

Most of the exchanges which allow you to trade bitcoins, however, don’t currently offer anything like currency pairs, nor any other futures or derivatives. Which means you would have to amass a stock of actual bitcoins to bet on them. That gets expensive.

One day, if bitcoin becomes well established, institutional foreign exchange dealers could make markets in bitcoins. (Among the current obstacles: There are only 11 million bitcoins in existence, and there can never be more than 21 million, so it’s not a very liquid market. If a way ever emerges to break bitcoins up into even smaller fractions, that might solve the problem, according to traders we spoke to.) But for those looking to short bitcoins right now, there are two notable ways to do it:

• Bitfinex: A Hong Kong-based bitcoin exchange based in Hong Kong, Bitfinex allows ordinary bitcoin holders to act like brokers and lend bitcoins to people who want to trade them. The exchange does a lot of this automatically.
• ICBIT: ICBIT allows traders to make bets using futures—financial contracts in which a buyer agrees to buy a security, in this case a bitcoin, at a future date at a predetermined price. Futures contracts can be bought and sold, so you can make money without buying the actual bitcoins themselves. This platform will also let you trade commodities, such as oil, in bitcoins.

Still, do you really want to short bitcoins? The market is still pretty volatile, and because it’s an unfamiliar mix of currency and equity, it’s likely to stay that way for a while. Remarks Cullen Roche, the founder of Orcam Financial Group, “You’d probably be better off just going to Vegas though. You’ll have more fun, about the same odds, and the drinks in the casino will be free.”

If you’d like to make us aware of any other means of shorting bitcoin, please email sf@qz.com.

Update: Article has been amended to reflect that bitcoins can already be traded in small fractions, indeed to 0.00000001 BTC (eight decimal places). Nonetheless, even with the ability to break bitcoins into small pieces, there are too few bitcoins in existence for institutional traders to be willing to trade them.

Our readers also inform us that it’s possible to short bitcoins on MPEx, which allows you to buy and sell BTC/USD currency pairs.

Short sell Bitcoin Guide for Beginners – Profit when Bitcoin prices drops

Last updated on January 2nd, 2018 at 12:00 am

Short-selling is an investment method that allows investors to benefit from drops in prices and value of a particular asset, in this case, Bitcoins.

What is Short Selling Bitcoin All About?

Short selling allows you to basically borrow an asset, such as Bitcoins, and sell it at current prices. Later on, you can purchase the Bitcoins to pay back the person or organization you borrowed them from when selling the first time around. Hopefully, when you go to repurchase the Bitcoins, prices will have dropped, so it will be cheaper to purchase the assets that need to be paid back.

Let’s illustrate this with a short example:

• You short sale (borrow and sell) 10 Bitcoins when the price is $4,000
• This means you get $40,000
• Price of Bitcoin drops to $3,500
• You repurchase 10 Bitcoins to give back to the agency you borrowed from at 10*$3,500 = $35,000
• Your total profit is $40,000-$35,000 = $5,000

How to Short Sell Bitcoin?

If you want to short sell Bitcoins, you will contact a trading agency or platform and place a short sell order. The agency will then sell the Bitcoins from their own supply, based on the assumption that in the future you will repay them with an equal number of Bitcoins. If you sell 10 Bitcoins, for example, you will eventually have to “cover” those 10 Bitcoins, whether prices rise or drop. If prices drop, it will be cheaper to rebuy these 10 Bitcoins. If prices rise, it will be more expensive.

When short-selling, the firm or individual who loaned Bitcoins to you can generally recall the assets at any given time and are required to give you only a short notice. So make sure you read any rules, regulations, or guidelines for “covering” any assets you short sell. With markets fluctuating at such a rapid rate, costs can swing wildly, putting you at risk. Short selling can be especially risky if the lender calls in the assets before prices have a chance to drop.

There are a variety of ways to short Bitcoin:

Short Sell CFDs

Short selling is actually very common with stocks and most major trading platforms allow you to short stocks. Some Bitcoin CFD trading platforms now allow you to short-sell Bitcoins (e.g. AvaTrade or Plus500), when trading CFDs your capital is at risk. Also, Keep in mind that these platforms don’t actually hold Bitcoins and are using a method called Contract for Difference.

Shorting via a Bitcoin Exchange

Exchanges geared towards crypto traders offer short support as a matter of course, and some allow for leveraged shorting too. These exchanges include:

… and many more. Ensure that the exchange you pick is reputable and remember; any bitcoins kept on an exchange are only yours in theory.

Put Options

Certain specialized exchanges, such as BitMEX, offer Bitcoin options trading. Purchase of an option grant the ability, but not the obligation, to trade at a specific price by a certain expiry date. If you have experience with options trading this method might suit you, otherwise it’s not recommended for beginners. Options are complex but do allow for greater flexibility and higher leverage.

Timing a Bitcoin Short Sell

IF you time it right… Shorting Bitcoin is trading against the long-term uptrend; the longer you hold your trade the riskier this becomes. Of course, this is only true provided Bitcoin markets remain bullish (i.e. price go up) – but in July 2017 this appears to be the expectation of amateur and professional traders alike.

Another thing to remember – the maximum profit potential of a short is limited to a Bitcoin price of 0, whereas buyers have an unlimited upside of [infinity].

If you examine Bitcoin price charts, you’ll soon realize the truth of the old trading aphorism, “price takes the stairs up but the elevator down.” Whereas bullish moves take time to build and develop, bearish moves tend to be relatively short and sharp.

Trying to short the top of a big bull run is tough; you’re likely to stop out multiple times as Bitcoin keeps rising like a stubborn zombie. The smarter play is to short when price reaches resistance; such as the top of an established downtrend line, channel, or previous major high. If price persistently pushes through any of these structures, you’ll soon know that your short was wrong and can exit (“close”) it at only a minor loss.

Keep in mind that if many traders are positioned similarly, a price surge may result as fearful traders compete to close their shorts. This is known as a short squeeze. A perfect example may be seen at the right edge of the above chart.

Analyzing the market for Short Sell Opportunities

Beyond technical analysis, it helps to know the Bitcoin space well. Certain past events have triggered major sell-offs:

• Failure of major exchanges, eg. Gox collapse.
• Hostile regulatory action in major countries, eg. “China bans Bitcoin” fake news.
• Well-known developers throwing a quit fit, eg. Mike Hearn.
• Heightened hard fork risks, eg. the recent anxieties over UASF before BIP 91 locked in (review the last couple of weeks on the above chart).
• Delays or setbacks in widely-desired upgrades, eg. SegWit.

Events expected to have a very negative impact on price, should they ever occur, include:

• Any contentious hard fork.
• Breach of the cryptographic primitives used in Bitcoin (SHA256, secp256k1).
• Discovery of Bitcoin code exploits which threaten wallet security or network operation.
• Hostile actions against Bitcoin mining companies by the Chinese government.
• Movement in the first million or so bitcoins mined by Satoshi Nakomoto.

Events which, thus far, have had surprisingly little negative impact on price include:

• The failure (through fraud or seizure) of darknet markets, eg. Silk Road or Alpha Bay.
• Full blocks and correspondingly high transaction fees.
• Claims of having unmasked the identity of Satoshi Nakomoto, eg. Dorian Nakomoto fake news or Craig Wright hoax.
• Hostile pronouncements from journalists, economists, politicians, bankers, etc.

None of the above lists should be considered exhaustive. Remember that bullish markets tend to shrug off bad news and that markets may ignore, misinterpret or overreact to negative events.

The risks of Bitcoin Short Trading

We should warn you, however, that short-selling any asset is a high-risk venture. Normally, when you invest in an asset your losses are limited to the amount of money you have invested in that asset. For example, if you invest $10,000 dollars in a stock, and that stock suddenly collapses and become worthless, your losses will be limited to the $10,000 dollars you invested.

When short selling, however, your losses could extend far beyond your initial investment, something that is very important to consider, especially with Bitcoin. The easiest way to explain this is to use an example:

Let’s say you short-sold $100 dollars worth of Bitcoin back when prices were only $10 dollars per coin. That means you short-sold 10 coins. Let’s assume that you have yet to repurchase the coins, meaning that you still have to pay the owner back with 10 Bitcoins. At current prices that would cost more than $40,000 dollars!

As you can see, short-selling any asset can be very risky. If you want to short sell Bitcoins or anything else, you need to be very careful. Only invest if you are very confident that prices will drop, and if you have money to cover your losses if investments rise. Make sure you watch prices closely and cut your losses if prices start to rise too quickly. That being said, if your intuition turns out to be correct and prices do drop, you could make a lot of money. If you short-sold a single Bitcoin that’s currently selling for $1,200 dollars, for example, and prices collapsed back to $100 dollars, you’d make approximately $1,100 bucks, and that’s not a bad pay day at all!

That being said, if your intuition turns out to be correct and prices do drop, you could make a lot of money. If you short-sold a single Bitcoin that’s currently selling for $4,000 dollars, for example, and prices collapsed back to $2,500 dollars, you’d make approximately $1,500 bucks, and that’s not a bad pay day at all!

If you have any experiece with short selling Bitcoin I’d love to hear about it in the comment section below.

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Long / Short Margin Funding Ratios (shorts expressed in USD equivalent) Charts: These charts display the ratio of Long (USD Margin Funding, green) vs Short (BTC+LTC Margin Funding, red) opened during the specified period. The pie chart represents the total volume of Margin Funding opened in the specified period, split up in percentages for long and short Margin Funding. BTC and LTC Margin Funding are expressed in USD value (using Vwap). The tables show the data used for the charts: volume of the opened Margin Funding (in USD) during the specified period.

Total Active Long Margin Funding vs Short Margin Funding vs BTCUSD price (shorts expressed in USD equivalent): displays the total sum of all active Margin Funding on bitfinex. the green area is the total sum of USD Margin Funding over time (i.e Margin Funding used for long positions, margin traders use USD Margin Funding in long positions). The 2 red areas represent the total sum of BTC and LTC Margin Funding (i.e Margin Funding used for short positions, margin traders use BTC / LTC Margin Funding in short positions). To make the values better comparable I represented the sum of BTC and LTC Margin Funding in USD worth. otherwise you would be comparing apples and oranges ;)

Long Margin Funding vs Short Margin Funding (opened Hourly) vs BTCUSD price (shorts expressed in USD equivalent): more or less the same, but instead of the total sums it displays all Margin Funding opened in USD, BTC and LTC per hour. so each point in the second chart represents 1 hour, and show the total volume of Margin Funding opened during that hour.

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While bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have made astronomical gains so far this year, up more than 1,400% in 2017, that hasn't stopped many investors from remaining skeptical about the long-term strength of the industry. In fact, as prices climbed higher and higher, crossing big price milestones very quickly, some analysts predicted that a bubble pop is approaching. For those investors who believe that bitcoin is likely to crash at some point in the future, shorting the currency might be a good option. Here are some ways that you can go about doing that.

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Margin Trading

One of the easiest ways to short bitcoin is through a cryptocurrency margin trading platform. Many exchanges allow this type of trading, with margin trades allowing for investors to "borrow" money from a broker in order to make a trade. It's important to remember that there may be a leverage factor, which could either increase your profits or your losses. Many Bitcoin exchanges allow margin trading at this stage, with BitMex, AVAtrade, and Plus500 as some popular options.

Futures Market

Bitcoin, like other assets, has a futures market. In a futures trade, a buyer agrees to purchase a security with a contract which specifies when and at what price the security will be sold. If you buy a futures contract, you're likely to feel that the price of the security will rise; this ensures that you can get a good deal on the security later on. However, if you sell a futures contract, it suggests a bearish mindset and a prediction that bitcoin will decline in price. According to the Merkle, "selling futures contracts is an excellent way to short bitcoin." Futures markets are somewhat more difficult to find, but OrderBook.net has been known as a place to buy and sell bitcoin futures.

Binary Options Trading

Call and put options also allow people to short bitcoin. If you wish to short the currency, you'd execute a put order, probably with an escrow service. This means that you would be aiming to be able to sell the currency at today's price, even if the price drops later on. Binary options are available through a number of offshore exchanges, but the costs (and risks) are high.

Prediction Markets

Prediction markets are another way to consider shorting bitcoin. They have not been around in the cryptocurrency world for long, but they can nonetheless be an asset for shorting currencies like bitcoin. These markets allow for investors to create an event make a wager based on the outcome. You could, therefore, predict that bitcoin would decline by a certain margin or percentage, and if anyone takes you up on the bet, you'd stand to profit if it comes to pass. Predictious is one example of a prediction market for bitcoin.

Short-Selling Bitcoin Assets

While this might not appeal to all investors, those interested in buying and selling actual bitcoin could short-sell the currency directly. Sell off tokens at a price that you are comfortable with, wait until the price drops, and then buy tokens again. Of course, if the price does not adjust as you expect, you could also either lose money or lose bitcoin assets in the process.

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How To Short Bitcoin: 5 Ways To Profit From a Falling BTC Price

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The price of any currency or asset goes both up and down over time – and Bitcoin is no different. If you have developed an interest in Bitcoin as an investment, rather than just a way to make payments and avoid feeding the sins of the banking industry, you should therefore consider looking at ways to make a prifit from a falling bitcoin price as well as increases in value. Buy and hold (or hodl as many bitcoiners say) can be good sometimes, but it can’t be the best option 100% of the time – sometimes you will need to ‘go short’ – effectively betting on the price going down.

There are various different ways that you can ‘go short’. Of course if you own a large stash of BTC then you can just sell a few in the hope of buying them back later at a cheaper price. This is the easiest way, but there are other methods that can potentially give you a larger profit – although be warned that this usually means they will also give you a bigger loss if you are wrong and the price goes up.

Here are three of the most popular answers to the question – how to short bitcoin?

1. Margin Trading at Bitfinex

Margin trading means that you borrow money in order to make a trade. For example, if you have 1 bitcoin you would like to use to bet on the price going down, you may be able to use that 1 BTC to borrow 10 btc at 1:10 leverage. This means you will either make 10 times the profit or 10 times the loss.

Check out the video below for a super simply guide to shorting btc using Bitfinex

2. Sell Bitcoin Futures

A futures contract gives its buyer the right to purchase a currency or commodity at a fixed price at some specified date in the future. A person buying this contract is therefore betting that the price will go up, meaning that when their contract expires they can buy at below market price and sell immediately for a profit. The person selling the contract profits if the price goes down, because when the contract expires the other party will have to buy their coins from them at above market price. If you already own Bitcoin this can be a good alternative to ‘hedge your bets’ and profit from a downturn in price, without having to actually sell your coins – because if your coins are bought from you at above market price you can just buy them back on the open market and take the difference as your profit.

You can sell futures contracts at OrderBook.net

3. Bitcoin Options Contracts

Options are another financial derivative which can be used to profit on both rises and falls in price. You can use options to place a bet that the value of Bitcoin will be higher or lower than a particular value at a certain point in the future (say after 1 day, or 1 week), or that the value will or won’t hit a certain level above or below its current price within a particular time period.

You can purchase options contracts or create your own and pay with BTC through services such as BTC Oracle

Another options service with 5 different order types and a kind of practice account set-up for learning how to use them is Gryfx

4. Binary Options

Binary options are a simplified type of options contract, usually aimed at day traders. You simply bet that the price will be higher (in which case you are buying a ‘call’ option) or lower (a ‘put’ option) than its current value at a specified point in the future – usually measured in hours with the end of that day as the limit. This fill give you a fixed profit, usually around 40-80%, if you are correct, but you will lose everything if you are incorrect. This is a ery high risk high return method which often appeals to gamblers.

You can buy Binary options for BTC at Satoshi Options or for USD at AnyOption

5. Electronically Traded Funds (ETFs)

ETFs are funds that track the price of a currency, commodity or asset without actually owning any of it. You can use an ETF to go ‘long’ or ‘short’ – depending on whether you think the price will go up or down. ETFs often come with reliable high level leverage (1:10 or even 1:20).

A popular international ETF fund can be traded through Pluss500

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How to Short Bitcoin – A Complete Guide

How to Short Bitcoin – A Complete Guide

Shorting Bitcoin Via Exchange

Shorting Bitcoin through Contract for Differences(CFD’s)

Shorting Bitcoin via Futures Market (Cboe/CME)

Bitcoin Short – Pros and Cons

Buy low. Sell high. Just not necessarily in that order.

A simple example will show why this is the case. An investor borrows a Bitcoin from a friend and sells it at a price of $15,000. After the price drops to $10,000 the investor buys a Bitcoin back and returns it to the friend. This is a classic short sale, and the investor in the example made $5,000.

The most the investor could have made is $15,000 which would happen if Bitcoin became worthless. Of course, the risk is that the price of Bitcoin goes up and the investor has to buy it at a higher price in order to return it to the friend. Given the increase in price, there seems to be no practical limit to the amount that the investor could lose in the transaction.

Shorting Bitcoin Via Exchange

The first problem with implementing this strategy is finding someone who is willing to lend you the Bitcoin. Many exchanges offer this service which falls under the category of a “margin account”. Because you are borrowing something, there is an interest charge on the loan in addition to other transaction fees.

The terms of borrowing – how much you can borrow and what rate you will be charged – varies by exchange. The terms and the qualifications for a margin account are changing very quickly as the market for Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, in general, continues to develop. Kraken reports margin fees of .01% for every 4 hours the trade is open, a time frame that demonstrates how quickly active traders open and close margin positions.

Investors interested in establishing a margin account for short selling need to do some serious research to find the terms that best suit their intended trades. Some websites offer an overview of the different trading platforms and are a great place to start. Keep in mind that many of the trading platforms are unregulated and so have a larger embedded risk.

Margin trading platforms are now available across a large number of Bitcoin brokers, including AvaTrade and Plus500.

Shorting Bitcoin through Contract for Differences(CFD’s)

One of the key points to understand about shorting is that it isolates the change in the price. This is easy to understand on the “long” side – where the investor buys Bitcoin with the expectation that the price will increase but can be a bit confusing on the short sale. This isolation of the change in price is the key to understanding a Contract for Difference (CFD).

A CFD is a derivative. This is a frightening word for newcomers, but it simply means that the value of the instrument is determined by the value of something else. In this case, the value of the CFD is determined by the change in the price of Bitcoin. Investors buying a CFD do not actually own Bitcoin. They only own the change in the price of Bitcoin.

Just like the terms of shorting, the terms of a CFD vary by broker. Again, investors need to do some homework and find a broker that meets their needs. This includes the financial requirements for trading. Among these brokers, you can find Plus 500, AvaTrade and FXTM. Investors who meet the definition of an accredited investor have access to investment products and strategies that are not available to the general public under US securities law.

Furthermore, there are various brokers that provide CFD’s which allow you to short other cryptocurrencies. See the list below:

Shorting Bitcoin via Futures Market (Cboe/CME)

One the easiest parts of a CFD to understand is that it measures the difference in the price of Bitcoin over a period of time. In this sense, a CFD “buys” the future price of Bitcoin. This can be done directly through the latest development in Bitcoin trading, futures contracts in Bitcoin.

Futures are easy to understand by beginning with their origins in the agricultural sector. A farmer who plants a corn crop cannot know what price it will bring when the crop is harvested. To eliminate this uncertainty he can buy a futures contract that will give him the right to sell his corn at a started price when it is harvested. The actual price at that time – the “spot” price – may be higher or lower, but his price is fixed by the futures contract.

Bitcoin futures contracts are available for as few as a single Bitcoin and have expiration dates ranging from one week to three months. One of the benefits of a future is that they can be traded before the contract expires. This means an investor can buy a futures contract and realize some of the value from that contract (presuming it has value) before the expiration date by selling the contract to another investor.

Bitcoin Short – Pros and Cons

Shorting Bitcoin, or any financial asset for that matter, can get fairly complicated. However, the most important point to remember is that the most basic risk remains the same for the futures buyer as the straight short-seller. The potential loss has no cap, but the potential gain is limited to the current market price.

Investors use the strategies to short Bitcoin for a more important reason than just an expectation that the price will drop. Keep in mind that every strategy to short Bitcoin can be used to profit from a price increase. The most basic reason investors use margin, derivatives and futures is that these strategies employ leverage in one way or another.

These strategies allow the investor to own the change in price with a smaller investment than the current price of Bitcoin. In the case of a short, the price is the total transaction fees and interest. Leverage is a powerful financial tool used by every homeowner with a mortgage. Leverage multiplies the return on an investment that performs as expected, but also multiples the loss when it does not pan out.

Conclusion

Investors who have managed to grasp the relationship between blockchain and cryptocurrencies and then built on that to learn how to trade Bitcoin on exchanges have still only scratched the surface of how to profit from their knowledge. Understanding technical analysis –reading the patterns in the ups and downs of the market – is also only a step on the path to becoming a fully-equipped Bitcoin investor.

Gaining an understanding of how to profit from any movement in the price of Bitcoin could be the most important task the serious, savvy investor can undertake. Working through the math of how leverage increases Return on Investment (ROI) is part of understanding why margins, derivatives, and futures are so powerful. Working through the math of these instruments when they move in a bad direction is just as important to understanding the risk of leverage.

These building blocks are not always easy to acquire, but they are always worthwhile to have, even if the investor chooses not to use them. Understanding and tracking the futures market, for example, gives the investor insight into what other, perhaps more sophisticated investors, think will happen in the future. That knowledge can be power.

This article was originally posted on FX Empire

How to Short Bitcoin

Shorting assets is risky, and you can lose more than your original investment if the asset continues to rise. That being said, there’s plenty of people who’ve made a significant amount of money through short selling and making investments that seem to go against the grain.

To manage risks when shorting Bitcoin, make sure you work with funds that you can afford to lose. Bitcoin is extremely volatile and shorting it has the potential to lose a great amount of money.

Shorting Bitcoin is not advisable for beginners. Only experienced traders with a high-risk tolerance should even think about shorting Bitcoin.

How to Short Bitcoin

Bitcoin has recently risen to historic levels at an unprecedented rate leaving many people worried about how long this growth can last. Whether you’re a Bitcoin skeptic or want to take advantage of the seemingly imminent correction, you’re probably wondering, “Can I short Bitcoin?”

Can you short Bitcoin?

Yes. Although not as prevalent as buying, there are a few different ways you can short Bitcoin:

• Shorting Bitcoin on an exchange
• Shorting Bitcoin CFDs
• Bitcoin futures market

Shorting Bitcoin on an exchange

If you already have experience trading cryptocurrency, the most natural way for you to short Bitcoin is on a cryptocurrency exchange. Many of the major exchange such as GDAX and Kraken give you the option to short the coins on their platform.

Bitfinex and some other exchanges also have leverage trading. You can leverage your Bitcoin short (up to 5x on some exchanges) if you’re feeling particularly confident or risky.

Shorting Bitcoin CFDs

A CFD (Contract for Difference) is a contract between two parties that speculates on the price of an underlying asset – in this case, Bitcoin. These investment derivatives allow you to “bet” on the price of Bitcoin without having to actually purchase it.

Not all CFD platforms have Bitcoin shorting options. If this method seems well suited for you, you may want to check out AvaTrade, one of the most popular Bitcoin CFD websites.

Bitcoin futures market

Similar to a Bitcoin CFD, you can also short Bitcoin through a futures trade. To short Bitcoin with this method you need to sell a future contract for Bitcoin at a price that’s lower than it is currently.

Until recently, there weren’t many reputable trading platforms you could do this through. However, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), Nasdaq, and most recently CBOE all announced that they’re opening up Bitcoin futures trading early this December.

Is shorting Bitcoin risky?

Yes. When you buy “long” on an asset, the maximum amount that you can lose is what you’ve invested because an asset can’t be worth less than $0.

When you short an asset, you can lose all your money if the asset continues to rise.

With Bitcoin sometimes doubling in price before any significant pullback, shorting it could be a risky endeavor. That being said, there’s plenty of people who’ve made a significant amount of money through short selling and making investments that seem to go against the grain.

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