The Book I'm Reading Now

I took out this book from my bookshelf recently and re-read it again, with much curiosity, I wanted to find out if I could learn something from the past financial crisis and if there is any similarity of past crisis vs recent crazy the price movement of Bitcoin. 

 I read with great interest especially in Chapter 4 ( Fueling the Flames: Monetary Expansion ).

Quote “ Speculative manias gather speed through the expansion of money and credit or perhaps, in some cases, get started because of the initial expansion of money or credit. One can look back at particular manias followed by crash or panic and see what went wrong .“ Unquote

Some analyst and economist have been highlighting that current high asset price including stocks, real asset and Bit-coin ?? to some extend were  caused by “ultra lose “ monetary policy & QE implemented by world central bank for a long period of time after GFC.

Price has gone up by another 248% since my last blog-post about Q&A of Bit-coin ( here) and it has surged by more than 1800% since Jan 2017.  As mentioned, the price may continue to go up to fetch USD50,000 or even USD100,000 if the party continue to draw much attention and new capital continue to flow in, especially when you can buy “ futures contract “ of Bit-coin base on margin. 

 Although the margin requirement for Bit-coin is much higher than normal future contract like the S&P 500,  “The margin requirement at CME is 35 per cent, while at Cboe, it is 40 per cent, reflecting bitcoin’s volatility. The margin for an S&P 500 futures contract, by contrast, is just 5 per cent”, but the extra capital could be generated would be huge base on a global scale.

Bitcoin debuts on the world's largest futures exchange (here)

 

Bitcoin hits bigger stage as exchange giant CME launches futures (here )

With the launching of the future market for Bit-coin, I am sure the volatility will increase as people ( investors ??) could use the margin to enlarge their position and using “short-selling “  to capitalize the sudden fall in price. One should ensure that they have enough “ Risk appetite “  if he/she decided to join the “ PARTY “.

Good Luck and All The Best to those millionaires created and future millionaire to be created by investing in Bitcoin .

Cheers !!

Quote Of The Day :

"Sometime in the next five years, you may kick yourself for not reading and re-reading Kindleberger's Manias, Panics, and Crashes." by Prof. Paul A. Samuelson