Reminder that if you are using XMR as collateral you are exposed to risk in both assets. If your XMR collateral declines in value your short may be force closed even if the ETH side of the trade hasn't moved against you. This is less of an issue if you are significantly overcollateralized, but it is there.
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So I was thinking there may be more users like me (I struggled hard but had great help from the community), who would like to support the Monero network but are not that much experienced configuring a Linux server. Therefore I would like to check if there is any interest in extending a fully hosted Monero node:
Can you sign the account for the node over?
Yes, the only thing that would need to be changed is the email address.
OK, I'll take it off your hands and keep it up. Do they accept paypal?
Figured some people might be interested in this:

Y-axis is correlation, X-axis is the days. That is, day 1 is the first day that both ETH and XMR were trading on Poloniex.
The chart uses a 30 day correlation rolling window.
Correlation for dummies ->
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/correlation.aspFor what it's worth, the correlation over the whole trading history is ~0.15.
If I'm reading that right it's as I was thinking that they are about to diverge.