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I've been trading crypto options with mixed success on Ethereum (Bitcoin and Solana), since then early 2019. Over the years I have gained some much-needed experience and understanding of how actually crypto options work. In short, they work similarly, but a bit differently than regular stock options. In today's article I'm willing to share some ideas and observations on how to trade crypto options on Ethereum (and not) only during a prolonged Bear market The world of cryptocurrency has seen…

Yesterday (February 5, 2023), when checking my daily charts for Ethereum trading I noticed a potential golden cross forming for BTC/USD (also ETH/USD) charts for the 50/200 days Moving averages trading indicator. The golden cross is a popular technical indicator used in stock and crypto trading. A golden cross is a chart pattern in which a relatively short-term moving average crosses above a long-term moving average. The golden cross is a bullish breakout pattern formed from a crossover…

Interactive Brokers is a damn good brokerage account where you can trade stocks, options, and futures, I've been amazed by this brokerage account for years. Sometimes some glitch happens, but nothing too serious - one such glitch happening - is a missing Portfolio tab in Classic TWS. I should note I have faced this on my MacBook only - might be or not be related to the TWS versions, not sure. It happens when you log in to the TWS, there is no Portfolio tab: In my case it was showing only…

On December 12, 2022, we minted 10,000 TerraM coins on the Solana network with an aim to raise $10,000 capital for options trades on Ethereum via the Deribit trading platform. We didn't raise the capital yet, but we did have quite an interesting month. It didn't go as planned, actually, it went totally wrong and despite ETH gaining more than 30% last January, the TerraM token actually lost -10.59% from the value it had at the end of December.  Bad luck with futures trading (we were hedging…

In mid-December 2022 we launched the TerraM token, which raises funds to trade Ethereum on the Deribit platform. As the main chief financier and developer behind the TerraM coin, I come up with an idea to hedge all open positions with futures (both short and long). In theory, this strategy is a 0-risk game, in practice, it is much more complicated - with the biggest drawback being - the price oscillation near the strike price. In the past weeks, we have been pushed out several times. I have…

On December 12, 2022, I minted 10,000 TerraM coins on the Solana network with an aim to raise $10,000 capital for options trades on Ethereum via the Deribit trading platform. We didn't raise the capital yet, but we did have a quite good month. Besides minting and listing tokens for sale on the Raydium network, from the capital raised (I'm the single largest investor) we were able to book a $176.09 profit. That would give about an 11.38% yield. /* /*]]>*/ We were able to grow TerraM by 11…

In this article, I will share a practical example of how to potentially make $200/mo from trading ETH options on the deribit or any other reputable crypto trading platform. There are several ways to make money trading Ethereum or any other crypto, in this article I will focus on selling call options.  Call options are financial contracts that give the option buyer the right but not the obligation to buy a stock, bond, commodity, or other asset or instrument at a specified price within a…

In this article, I'm going to share how to hedge Ethereum coins with short-selling Ethereum perpetual contracts. One of my favorite investing techniques is investing with covered calls, originally I mastered this trading strategy with stocks, like buying 100 shares, selling covered calls, pocketing the premium - depending on the price at the options expiry, letting your shares get assigned or roll forwards.  Over the years I have mastered applying this options trading strategy to crypto…

When I first noticed hashtag #cryptocrash on Twitter on November 8, 2022, I was lightly entertained. At that moment I was holding just some small bits with Bitcoin and Solana on Coinbase and Deribit trading platforms. But things slowly turned out of control and by November 9, 2022, it was already clear what the heck is going on - turned out the cryptocurrency trading company FTX was busted. As we learned during the crash - Binance backed out of FTX rescue, leaving the crypto exchange on the…

Greetings from Tbilisi, Georgia. The weather temperatures are lowering, and windier and fewer leaves for the trees around us. Fall.   In today's article, I'm going to look at 3 cryptocurrencies - Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana and make some predictions/forecasts based on technical analysis and my inner gut for the rest of the month. The Crypto market, for the past weeks and a couple of months already, has been in a consolidation mode. At the end of October, both Bitcoin and Ethereum broke…