Quote from: Joe200 on December 14, 2017, 07:40:50 PM

The futures volume is 1,600 per day. By comparison, Bitfinex is 50,000+ per day. Plus add in all the other exchanges.

Futures is a huge opportunity for traders to come in who don't want to deal with the complexities and the risk of handling actual coins. Or for institutional traders, who can't deal with it.

You would think the futures volume would be a lot higher. But it's not.

Discuss.

Quite simply bitfinex has been around a long while longer, that's the main thing, second to that I think the actual bitcoin trade will always be bigger than the futures trade, or maybe not but at least for the foreseeable future. Most people have no need for futures as they are speculating that the bitcoin value will increase so they can simply buy bitcoin now and hold it instead of using a futures contract. It's also a new industry and in time it will grow, especially as it begins to be offered in more places and as more people begin to understand the use cases.