Bitcoin Bears Unleashed? Interactive Brokers Folds, Will Allow Clients To Short Futures
A week after Thomas Peterrfy, the founder, Chairman and CEO of Interactive Brokers and one of the 'giants' of electronic trading in US financial markets warned that:
"the introduction of bitcoin futures into a clearing house could increase systemic risk."
And just days after the firm said its
"clients would be unable to short the bitcoin futures market because of the extreme volatility of bitcoin."