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ACDX, a crypto derivatives exchange offering advanced structured products for sophisticated traders, has launched a new trading option, WOZX Perpetual Futures.
ACDX’s new listing lets users trade WOZX/USD perpetual futures with up to 100x leverage.
Efforce is the company behind the multimillion-dollar-backed WOZX ecosystem. Led by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, it is a blockchain-based decentralised energy saving trading platform which connects contributors and companies that need funds for their energy efficiency projects.
“We are always looking for innovative projects to list on ACDX. Efforce is exactly what we are seeking,” says Andy Cheung, founder and executive chairman of ACDX.
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Digital asset data infrastructure company Brave New Coin has launched two new indices on the multi-currency spot and futures trading platform BTSE: the Maker Vault Index and the Blockchain Interoperability Index.
Both institutional-grade products were available on BTSE from 23 December, 2020 and will be made available on additional BNC partner exchanges in the near future.
Maker Protocol is one of the largest decentralised applications on the Ethereum blockchain, and is governed by MakerDAO, an open-source project and decentralised autonomous organisation created in 2014. Brave New Coin’s Maker Vault Index is a rules-based sector index designed to measure the growth
Bitfinex Derivatives, a derivatives platform accessible through the Bitfinex digital token trading platform has launched of a perpetual contract for Ethereum/bitcoin.
Each contract offers users up to 100x leverage and will be settled in bitcoin (BTC).
“We’re delighted to be the first leading exchange to offer an Ethereum/bitcoin perpetual contract,” say Paolo Ardoino, CTO at Bitfinex Derivatives. “We anticipate great interest, particularly among funds and professional investors for hedging purposes and to manage currency risk.”
Bitfinex Derivatives platform and products are only available in eligible jurisdictions, and are exclusive to verified users.
IS Prime, part of ISAM Capital Markets, has partnered with FDCTech to extend its liquidity distribution to the innovative Condor FX Pro trading platform.
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The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has published the 2021 calendar for the auctioning of EU Emission Allowances (EUA) and EU Aviation Allowances (EUAA) in coordination with the European Commission, the EU Member States and the EEA EFTA states auctioning on the common auction platform (CAP3) as well as with the competent German and Polish authorities.
Furthermore, the EEX contract on the auctioning of emission allowances on behalf of the Polish government has been extended on 10th December 2020 for up to five years.
The 2021 emission auctions will start with the German EUA auction on 29 January 2021.
EEX will hold
Moneybrain, one of only four FCA authorised firms in the UK trading cryptocurrency, has welcomed the news that the FCA will still enforce its January 2021 deadline on hundreds of firms and sole traders that make the industry a ‘wild west’.
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Huobi Futures has announced the APP launch of cross margining of USDT-margined swaps on its digital asset derivative trading platform.
With the new feature, any profitable positions in this mode can offset positions that are close to be liquidated. By allowing users to tailor their portfolios to the strategies they are partial to, Huobi is providing traders with greater convenience and helping them avoid unnecessary liquidation when their overall portfolio is otherwise sound.
“With cross margining, we’re aiming to give our users more control over the way they trade digital assets and manage their portfolios—a key objective at Huobi,” says
QuantConnect, an open-source algorithmic trading platform, has launched a cloud-based parameter optimisation service to help quants detect overfit parameters.
Available for all asset classes, this service enables QuantConnect’s users to select robust parameters, making strategies less sensitive to out-of-sample market changes and potentially avoiding costly mistakes.
Quantitative trading strategies are controlled by a set of parameters, which are often decided by quants making an educated guess. As the selection of these parameters dramatically influences the results of backtests, many quants are prone to overfitting: choosing the parameters that fit the detail and noise of backtesting data, to the extent that
Digital token trading platform Bitfinex, has added tether tokens both USDt and EURt to the suite of tokens available for trading.
From 18/12/20 at 9:30 AM UTC, users can trade USDt, EURt. Users can also trade EURt with fiat currencies, US dollars (EURt/USD) and euros (EURt/EUR).
“This new trading pair allows our users to trade EURt with crypto’s most liquid, stable and popular stablecoin,” says Paolo Ardoino, CTO at Bitfinex. “We anticipate great interest among our user base in this new trading pair.”
The market capitalisation of USDt currently stands at USD20 billion, underlying the increasing dominance of the most
