For contracts to be expiring in January 2018
In case you need a summary of what has happened since the CBOE launched Bitcoin futures on 10 December:
- CBOE website went down early Sunday evening due to heavy traffic, but trading operations continued normally
- Bitcoin futures opened at $15,000 on Monday
- It settled at $18,545 at the end of the day, up by 23.6%
- There were 3,969 contracts that changed hands on Monday - roughly about USD 68 million worth
- Trading during the day was stopped twice (circuit breaker triggers), as the market went up 10% and 20% respectively
- Bitcoin itself ended the day at $17,148, with futures trading at a 8% premium
Some reaction to the first day of futures trading as reported by the WSJ and from Bloomberg TV's interview:
"I don't think anyone wants to go in and fight the trend. We're in the enthusiasm phase now", - Bill Baruch, president of Blue Line Futures, a Chicago-based futures brokerage
"People are cautiously trading in a very small and limited capacity, not really taking huge bets", - Gareth See, CEO of DV Chain, a proprietary trading firm focused on cryptocurrencies
"My sense is it's largely retail. Right now the big boys haven't come in yet", - Bob Fitzsimmons, head of Wedbush Securities' futures arm
"The next frontier in the evolution of bringing Bitcoin to a more broad base of users are ETFs and ETNs" , - Ed Tilly, CBOE CEO
"I think we will see derivatives (being offered), but it will be in the months ahead, should not be in the weeks. And there might be room for mini contracts in the weeks/months to come", - Ed Tilly, CBOE CEO
