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In brief House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) believes the Senate will ultimately opt to pass the House’s market structure bill, the CLARITY Act. The Senate is currently in the midst of drafting its own market structure bill, which it plans to deliberate on in September. Emmer says the White House has communicated that it…
Kraken is pleased to announce the acquisition of the popular charting and trading platform Cryptowatch (https://cryptowat.ch) – used by thousands of traders to chart over 150 markets in real-time and trade up to 22 digital assets through a highly user-friendly interface. Cryptowatch has seen rapid growth in the past two years, increasing its active user-base…
Kraken is pleased to launch a new and greatly improved trading platform for our clients that is found here: https://trade.kraken.com/ The trading platform is adapted from the popular charting and trading site Cryptowatch. Kraken has acquired Cryptowatch – you can read more about the acquisition here: Quick-Start Guide to Trading on the New Platform Accessing…
Kraken, in partnership with The Economist, asked MBA programs from around the world the following question: You have $1M to invest across bitcoin and ether. You cannot touch your investment for the next 5 years. How much of that $1M do you invest in each? Why? Each of the thirteen participating teams produced both a 5…
We have received many reports lately of clients falling victim to phishing sites appearing in the ads, above the organic search results, of all of the major search engines. Unfortunately, it seems to be easier to get an ad up than it is to have one taken down. Our efforts at reporting the malignant ads…
We’ve added a great new feature to margin trading. It is called “Position Settlement” and it essentially gives you the option to “cash out” of margin positions. Even if you think leveraged margin trading is not for you, read on, because this feature opens up new ways to use margin that may benefit you! What…
September 8, 2015 | News Kraken Strategist/Trader Kevin Zhou is interviewed by Trace Mayer on the Bitcoin Knowledge Podcast. Among the topics discussed are: the interest banks have taken in blockchain technology; the current unusually high price of Bitcoin swaps; how to quantitatively measure the price impact of a spam attack on Bitcoin; the prospects…
Hi Everyone, This is Kevin Zhou, former economist/trader at Buttercoin and currently strategist/trader at Kraken. There’s a lot of material out there about how to place orders and execute trades but very little on trading strategy and methodology (beyond charting and TA), so I thought I’d share some of my thoughts on that topic. I’ll…
May 25, 2015 | News, Product Kraken is pleased to announce the launch of margin trading. Margin is an exciting instrument that allows clients to amplify their trading profits and gain in both up and down markets. Kraken is now one of the few exchanges allowing clients to trade bitcoins on margin. Margin trading is…
August 27, 2014 | News Kraken sponsored two events that are part of the MIT Bitcoin Project. The first was for the MIT Bitcoin Club on July 29th. Dan Matuszewski, Director of Trading Operations at Kraken, talked to the club about how to trade bitcoins. The second event was round three of MIT Bitcomp. Bitcomp…
