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Board Trading Discussion
BTC option premium?
by
AndrewSt
on 28/11/2017, 11:04:39 UTC
On OCT 31 CME announced listing of BTC (BTCUSD) futures. 1 contract is of 5 BTC.

I am anticipating BTC options. My question is how to estimate BTC option premium?

It is common to use an “option calculator”. Among the others I should provide 2 most valuable parameters: HV and interest rate.
Ok, I can calculate HV. Should I just set “interest rate” to 0?

Most people believe in BTC’s getting more expensive.
HV (historical volatility) is just a scalar. HV does not consider the fact that Bitcoin has revealed a significant growth these years. The only way to point on that “insight” (uptrend) for an option calculator is to use “interest rate”.