Futures trading uses leverage, requiring a broker and margin minimum that varies by contract. If market value falls and reaches maintenance margin, you must deposit more funds or liquidate.

In the announcement, posted on September 9, 2019, the cryptocurrency trading platform noted the role that the warehouse will play in its soon-to-be-launched physically settled bitcoin futures product.

Offering a variety of services in this vein, it promised the eventual development of a market for bitcoin futures trading, a coveted field of new money making potential in the cryptocurrency space.

Trading crypto futures might sound exotic, but it's not substantially different from any other derivative firms trade via CME. "It's not difficult to trade futures from bitcoin. You just need to ...