Interactive brokers offering Bitcoin Trading this Summer

[klattermusen]

that will mark the top.

 

[KINGOFSHORTS]

So you can actually buy bitcoin on IB and sell it as well? No intermediary to deal with?

 

[Butterfly]

it's a notional product, I assume

 

[Fain]

This will allow a bitcoin contago trade with the futures as well.

 

[Daal]

This will allow a bitcoin contago trade with the futures as well.

I'm not sure it will be much different from the current trade possibility of Canadian BTC ETF + CME BTC futures. IB will likely set the margin requirement for spot BTC at 100% and the short futures will have a varying margin requirement that tends to be raised at the worst moments. So the margin concerns in the trade should remain the same

 

[blueraincap]

The CME-listed Bitcoin futures options unavailable at IBKR?

 

[ids]

No

 

[blink18]

@def is there any new information about bitcoin trading at IB? September is around the corner...

 

[eastern_warrior]

@def is there any new information about bitcoin trading at IB? September is around the corner...

I think that is still the target if I heard an interview correctly. I think CNBC.

 

[def]

I think that is still the target if I heard an interview correctly. I think CNBC.

While I suspect confirmation of a launch date isn't market sensitive info, I'll have to play it on the safe side and just say an announcement of an official launch date will be made in due course.