{"id":62144,"date":"2018-02-05T00:59:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T05:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=62144"},"modified":"2018-02-05T01:00:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T06:00:43","slug":"hedge-funds-bet-bitcoins-pain-isnt-over-on-cboe-futures-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2018\/hedge-funds-bet-bitcoins-pain-isnt-over-on-cboe-futures-market.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Bet Bitcoin&#8217;s Pain Isn&#8217;t Over on Cboe Futures Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Hedge funds are wagering that Bitcoin\u2019s free-fall will keep going. Leveraged funds, which include hedge funds, held 2,974 short positions in Cboe Global Markets Inc.\u2019s Bitcoin futures as of Tuesday, a fivefold jump from the prior week. Long bets dropped to 895 contracts, down 22 percent from a week earlier, according to weekly data released Friday by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-02-02\/hedge-funds-bet-bitcoin-s-pain-isn-t-over-on-cboe-futures-market\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Hedge funds are wagering that Bitcoin\u2019s free-fall will keep going. Leveraged funds, which include hedge funds, held 2,974 short positions in Cboe Global Markets Inc.\u2019s Bitcoin futures as of Tuesday, a fivefold jump from the prior week. Long bets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62145,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62144\/revisions\/62145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}