Quote from: LucyLovesCrypto on December 10, 2015, 05:49:56 AM

Quote from: iCEBREAKER on December 09, 2015, 05:28:19 PM

Quote from: jehst on December 09, 2015, 04:39:29 AM

Most alts spend >90% of their lives falling against bitcoin and <10% of their lives rising against bitcoin.

altcoin investors must get used to the idea that we will spend 90% of our time watching our money shrink and 10% of our time watching it explode.

My hypothesis is that the transition to the next XMR bull market will be sudden, not gradual. People will be wondering whether XMR is dead in one moment; in the next, it will be rocketing to .01 per bitcoin or beyond.

The large amount of XMR available at low cost for borrowing keeps the rallies tamped down.

But when too many short sellers try to cover at once, it's off to the moon.

This is exactly why margin trading is dangerous. It has the potential to increase volatility.

Not sure about that. I've always believed derivative markets smooth out volatility via various mechanisms, such as transfer of information about future prices to the present.

Only in a crony capitalist situation where gambling is encouraged by bailouts would options be dangerous.