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December 16, 2017, 09:53:12 PM

CME has just increased their margin requirements for shorts to 500%.  

Edit: for those not fond of math, you need to post $95,000 margin to short one paper bitcoin at $19,000.

Where can we see this?

I understand fuck all about futures but it sounds cool. Or doesn't. I dunno.

Sorry this might be bad information.  The only authoritative source I can find says 43 -47% margin.   Carry on.

http://www.cmegroup.com/notices/clearing/2017/12/Chadv17-480.pdf