On Saturday, October 26th, the trade volume of bitcoin futures on the Binance exchange has exceeded $2 billion for the first time, iHodl Russia reports.
Meanwhile, the turnover of bitcoin futures on the BitMEX exchange reached $8.67 billion, the highest mark since July. At the same time, the ratio of long and short positions is still on the side of the bulls. On the Bitfinex and OKEx exchanges, it's about 4.09 and 1.75, respectively.
On both exchanges, the share of long positions per day increased by 10−20% after falling at the end of last week.
Earlier iHodl reported that the cryptocurrency trading platform Bakkt will launch the first regulated option contracts for bitcoin on December 9.
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