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nroets 7 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Perpetual futures, explained

You can buy (go long) a BTC future with only $10,000 or less of collateral. So you can get lots of leverage.

Another reason is that the future may be trading slightly below the spot price of BTC due to lots of traders shorting.

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