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BitBull Capital’s Crypto Hedge Fund Trading Strategies: Market Making
In another entry for our “Crypto Hedge Fund Trading Strategies” series, we are going to discuss market making as one of the key strategies for generating alpha regardless of price action direction. From our two funds - the first crypto fund of funds, and a direct,...
Game of Thrones vs Crypto Investing: With Bitcoin rising in 2019, Is Winter Over?
From humble beginnings to unprecedented power, cycles of strength and weakness, good intentions marred by bad actors and varying agendas, large-scale wars and a fight for the throne - much is common between the hit HBO show, Game of Thrones and cryptocurrencies, or...
Bakkt’s Imminent Launch of Bitcoin Futures Will Be Instrumental In Legitimizing the Crypto Market
Bakkt’s Imminent Launch of Bitcoin Futures Will Be Instrumental In Legitimizing the Crypto Market After several delays, mostly due to regulatory hurdles, the Intercontinental Exchange-backed Bakkt platform has shared a product development update highlighting several...
Institutional-grade Crypto Custody Solutions are Critical for Digital Asset Market Maturation
It was not until 2017 that crypto came under the spotlight with an unprecedented performance - the top 20 crypto index returned over 5,000% during the year, and even though the markets have slowed down since, the crypto space has achieved an asset-class status and is...
How BitBull Returned +29% in 2018, During the Crypto Winter
Through the crypto winter - in November and December of 2018, Bitcoin was down 35%, while BitBull’s Opportunistic Fund (“BitBull”) returned +29%. How did we outperform the bear market which negatively impacted the entire crypto space? In this article, we cover some of...
How to short Bitcoin and How Short Squeezes Result in Major Bitcoin Price Jumps
Unlike traditional financial markets, the crypto market is highly volatile and active 24/7, this presents unique opportunities and specific price movements, trading patterns and correlations which merit observation and understanding, particularly for actively managed...
Blockchain & Real Estate: How Tokenization May Be a Game Changer for Investors and Owners
The real estate market represents one of the oldest and most significant investment classes. Real estate investments yield competitive returns and are particularly effective hedges against inflation, however, there have been several persistent barriers to entry,...
Initial Exchange Offerings: The New Crypto Fundraising Trend Gaining Traction
ICOs or Initial Coin Offerings were immensely popular in 2017 and for most of 2018, raising around $10 billion (according to estimates) but investors started to back out of speculative projects, with a sharp decline in funding witnessed during Q3 2018. This year,...
Crypto Insurance Solutions Will be Key To Institutional Involvement
The crypto movement, spearheaded by the launch of Bitcoin around 10 years ago, was based on the need for individuals to have complete control over their wealth and assets, with the freedom to transfer and exchange them at will, without the need for a central body’s...
Bitcoin and Ethereum Indices Now Part of Nasdaq’s Global Data Index Service
In another move reinforcing crypto’s legitimacy as a new class of assets, the world’s second-largest stock exchange, Nasdaq, has incorporated Bitcoin and Ethereum indices into its Global Index Data Service. Nasdaq had earlier announced its intention to integrate these...
Regulated Bitcoin Futures Growing in 2019 Indicate Increased Institutional Interest
Bitcoin enjoys considerable diversity with both spot and futures markets available to retail and institutional investors, and recent statistics show that Bitcoin futures products offered by regulated exchanges such as CME and CBOE are witnessing growth, possibly...
BitBull Capital’s Crypto Hedge Fund Trading Strategies: Arbitrage to Profit from Price Inefficiencies
This is another part of our new series, “Crypto Hedge Fund Trading Strategies”, where we share insights from the crypto investing and trading space. As a pioneering crypto fund of funds, BitBull Capital has had the opportunity to conduct diligence on most of the 600+...