Some Wall Street banks won't offer access to the first Bitcoin futures market

The only winning move is not to play.<p>Spend time investing in yourself and your skills, and put your money in something like VTSMX, Vanguard&#x27;s extremely low-overhead total stock market index fund.

Bigger story: some CME brokers <i>will</i> offer access to their retail traders. NinjaTrader (US) and RBC (Canada) intend to.

It&#x27;s the first time I hear about &quot;long-only futures&quot;, is this even legal?<p>EDIT: I know it’s legal for equity options, where retail traders need to be eligible to be able to write options.

Since QC will in all probability break wallets would there be any reason not to short BTC over say a 10 year time frame?

Considering at this point I expect a lot of short contracts it’ll be interesting.

If Goldman has already created the futures system and darkpools etc, they can make money off of it and they intend to.

&gt; As investors rush into bitcoin, some big Wall Street banks are hitting the brakes.<p>This metaphor sounds as if they&#x27;re taking an affirmative step to halt the &quot;rush.&quot; But they&#x27;re just not opting-in to this new futures offering. If we need to stick with this metaphor, let&#x27;s try &quot;some big Wall Street banks are coasting.&quot;