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That's metkevin.com public, okay! Folks, let's get right into this, the sec is potentially going to allow a bitcoin futures exchange, traded, a fund, something that kathy wood has applied for as well in recent weeks and take a look at this upon the news of or the publishing of this news from Bloomberg we saw bitcoin essentially gap right up from about fifty seven thousand two hundred up about two thousand dollars to where we sit. Now about fifty nine thousand four hundred, we did run to a high folks, a recent high here of sixty thousand and two dollars now. Why is this so exciting? Well because we are expecting a bitcoin etf to get approved in the future, and some folks see a bitcoin futures etf as the first step towards a more broad etf. Now futures is basically a contract and we're going to talk about the difference between futures and options here to purchase or sell a certain amount of cryptocurrency.

In this case, uh bitcoin in the future could really be any kind of commodity. It could be the s p. 500 futures, whatever right, it's a promise to buy or sell a set amount of something in the future, and the sec actually has a bulletin out on bitcoin futures. Now it's not specifically about bitcoin futures uh in terms of an etf, but this is from june 10th, and so some folks are referring to this bulletin.

As sort of maybe like hey like this, was the the heads up in the summer that maybe a bitcoin futures etf was going to be able to uh be approved. The one thing that's really neat about this - is they mentioned here that in the united states, bitcoin is a commodity uh, which is fascinating, because a lot of folks see a bitcoin as a currency which is treated differently as a commodity and perhaps most importantly, people generally Do not want cryptocurrency to be deemed a security, because it opens you to a lot more regulation with the securities and exchange commission, the sec, and here they are literally saying it's not a security in effect, or at least that's the way it's viewed now. But then this is just the sec. This is just saying the way things are looked at right now, but either way a lot of futures contracts are based on trading commodities and folks see this as kind of the gateway drug, so to speak, of getting into an actual bitcoin etf and full-on cryptocurrency regulation.

This is why bitcoin jumped because it's seen as very very bullish now, why do we think that this bitcoin etf is going to get approved? Well, it's because of this right here, a bloomberg article saying that, according to people familiar with the matter, the sec is not likely to block bitcoin futures etfs from starting to trade next week and again, these are not bitcoin etfs, where people could hold bitcoin essentially directly Through an exchange traded fund, which would essentially mean being able to buy shares of bitcoin on the stock market, that's different. This is being able to buy shares in futures contracts on the stock market, where somebody else is promising to buy or sell a certain amount of cryptocurrency, so a little bit of a differentiation there, but kind of good, because the sec, if they were super anti-crypto, could Easily come in and block this, and it's very very good that we're not seeing a block to this. It is uh, definitely a step in the right direction. Now, what's what is futures uh, where what is a futures contract and how does that compare to maybe something? We might be more familiar with like an options contract, so an easy way to think about futures.

Is that whatever you're promising to buy you don't have an option to buy? You have a commitment to buy. That's why we call options options when we buy a call option, we have the option: it's our choice to actually buy the underlying stock. Let's say: if we're talking about trading options for stocks, if you uh purchase a put, you have the option of making. Somebody else buy your shares at a certain price as long as that price is above what the current price is.

So you have this choice as a buyer of option contracts to force somebody else to do something to either sell you shares or to buy your shares. In the case of call options, you could force somebody to sell. You shares uh in the case of put options. You could force somebody to buy your shares at potentially a higher price right or for calls sell you something at a lower price.

That's the point of options, but you don't have to you. Don't have to get rid of your shares. You don't have to buy those shares if you don't want to with a futures contract, you are committing to take delivery of whatever that contract is by the end date. If you still hold the contract by the end date.

Now you can trade futures contracts, but the downside of trading futures contracts is that, unlike options, contracts, futures contracts are what are known as marked to market every day. So, for example, if let's say you have a call option on gld or gold, and you spend three thousand dollars in premium for the right to buy a thousand shares of gld for 168 dollars on november 19th. Now that's a 3 000 option. You have to spend 168 000 on gld or the ishares gold fund in the future.

You only needed 3 000 for that contract. So if you get to the expiration date and you're like, i, don't have the 168 thousand dollars to actually buy gld at 168 times. A thousand shares because you have uh, you know 10 contracts of it. Let's say then, then that's okay! You are not obligated to buy the shares of gld.

You don't need the 168 000. You can have the option, contracts, uh and if you don't want to buy you just let it expire or trade it away. The difference, though, with futures contracts is, if you had a future contract to buy a hundred, sixty eight thousand dollars worth of gold in the future, whether that's actual gold or shares of gold through some kind of fund, you are on a daily basis, going to be Required to stake a certain amount of capital to show that you are going to be capable of executing that purchase at the end. This is staking margin and every single day your contract value gets marked to market.

You don't have to stake the whole thing, but if all of a sudden, the price of gold goes up a lot you're going to have to keep putting money in or otherwise you get margin called your option, won't just expire or worthless. If you don't want it or you just choose not to take the shares, because even though you might be in the money all of a sudden, you just don't have the 168 thousand dollars. It does not matter whether you were in the money or out of the money on expiration date. You have to buy that gold if you committed to buy that gold and you're holding the contract on that end date.

So futures uh therefore carry a little bit more risk, see as a buyer. Of that gold call contract you're limited to a three thousand dollar risk. That's it! That's your limited risk. You could trade that all you want.

If that money evaporates, oh well, you lose three thousand dollars. That's your max risk, but your max risk with a futures contract is that gold, let's say skyrockets, you promise to pay it. You are going to and let's say, gold doubles, you're going to have to come up with 330 000 to actually buy the gold or get rid of the contract and you're going to have to deal with spending a lot of money. You're not just losing three thousand dollars, you're losing way more, potentially and so futures contracts.

Therefore, a little bit more risky again you're, making the commitment to actually buy or sell something you get mark to market on a daily basis and there's a lot more risk. In this sure, you could day trade these a lot of people day trade futures, and then they don't want to hold them overnight because of that mark to market, but folks keep in mind that, whether you like futures or you like options or quite frankly, you don't Care about either of them. What happened here with the sec and bitcoin at least what is rumored to be happening, is bullish for cryptocurrency. Remember that the sec chairperson, gary gensler, says that regulation for cryptocurrency is like regulation for cars in the early 1900s.

Before we had regulation, we didn't have seat belts, we didn't have traffic lights, people were afraid to use cars because they were deemed dangerous. People were unfamiliar with them. When we got regulation, people learned about using blinkers. People were required to use blinkers and brake lights and we had stop signs and traffic lights and seat belts.

All these things slowly came out as innovations, not necessarily in that order, but anyway, people then became a lot more comfortable with driving vehicles and therefore, vehicles exploded in popularity and people believe that same explosion and popularity could happen in cryptocurrency. If we finally get some modest regulation, certainly we don't want china-level regulation where everything is getting banned all right now. What do we think price-wise and is this something that i'll actually invest in so uh price-wise? First of all, for bitcoin, this is bullish when we actually get formal approval. I would expect that this is not actually going to be a buy.

The rumor sell the news. This is going to be a buy the rumor by the news uh. I would expect that cryptocurrencies will do well when this gets formally approved, because this is just a rumor. Obviously, if it doesn't get approved, we could see some temporary weakness in cryptocurrency uh, but it would just be temporary we're on a nice trend.

Uh, a nice upward trend right now, i added some more cryptocurrency yesterday, uh and uh bought so right as this news came out within like the first minute of this news coming out, so i was able to get a good price. I was able to send an alert to everyone in the stocks and psychology of money group as well, where i send crypto notifications also, but uh now going forward. What about a futures etf? Would i buy a futures etf? Probably not for me, i don't i'm not so interested in playing uh futures, i'm not as well versed in futures as i am at options, i would rather just huddle the actual uh, the actual uh bitcoin uh. Now i think the futures etf could be interesting for some institutional investors, but i really don't think a lot of retail investors are going to get involved and i maintain that the best way to buy cryptocurrency is just go to something like coinbase.com and buy the cryptocurrency.

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