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Board Economics
Re: The problem of holding and volatility.
by
arbitrage001
on 23/10/2014, 10:53:42 UTC
By trading options, you can also handle the volatility more deliberately.

You need a counter party for the trade.

Only a fool would trade derivative based on bitcoin or short volatility.

Yeah, vanilla options are difficult to find a counter party as the seller bears very high risk. But binary options offer you an easy way to trade volatility. By binary options, I mean exchange traded options with multiple strike prices not the one for betting.

How would a seller price binary option then? The premium would need to be high even for short term binary option, and who is going to buy it?