Bitcoin futures at 5 BTC per contract: what to watch on margin and the expiry date

Select what genuinely interests you. Your picks feed directly into our editorial planning. Weekly. 60 seconds. Carefully curated by our editors: no hype, no promo flood, no spam. A Bitcoin future is a bet on a price at a fixed date, and it is not Bitcoin. You buy no coins; you enter a contract. On a set day, the difference between your entry price and the settlement price is paid out. Grasp that and you grasp the rest of this article, because every further term hangs on those two sentences. What counts here is less the price forecasts than contract size, margin and the expiry date. At the CME Group, the standard contract on Bitcoin covers five coins.

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