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Litecoin (LTC) Futures Live on Huobi, XRP Next on the line

Litecoin (LTC) futures are live on Huobi’s derivatives platform

Traders will be able to take a long or short position on Litecoin for the first time on the Huobi Derivatives platform starting today at SGT 18:00 p.m. LTC is the fourth asset to be listed on the derivatives platform after Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and EOS.

The price for the LTC/USD derivative will be based on prices from GDAX, Kraken, Huobi, and Bitstamp with a 25% share in the index for every exchange. There will be three types of contracts including weekly, bi-weekly and quarterly with a face value of $10.

The minimum margin ratio for:

  • 1x leverage is 100% (Adj factor is 2%)
  • 5x leverage is 20% (Adj factor is 10%)
  • 10x leverage is 10% (Adj factor is 20%)
  • 20x leverage is 5% (Adj factor is 40%)

Users will be able to trade till the last 10 minutes before delivery and the delivery date will be 16:00 pm (UTC + 8) on Friday before the contract expiration week.

Huobi Tweeted:

Huobi derivatives platform has gained quite a lot of traction since launch, after launching in December last year it has crossed $20 Billion in trading volume. The exchange also plans to add futures contracts for Ripple or XRP to its platform shortly.

According to Decrypt Livio Weng, CEO of Huobi Global said:

“Litecoin is one of the biggest of the altcoins on the market today and we’ve seen quite a bit of demand for it by our users, We’ll be adding more coin types to the platform as 2019 progresses, with Ripple next on our list.”

Litecoin has surged 0.5% in the past day and is currently at a price of $32.5 with a market cap of $1.9 Billion.

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Shrikar Parashar

Shrikar is a Blockchain evangelist. He is a die-hard fan of security tokens. He follows the market closely but does not trade. He believes in Hodling.

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