Good news: Today, Binance has added Hive token to its margin trading platform. It supports 5X leverage. Meaning you can trade upto 5 times the initial amount.
This listing will activate new traders in the next few days.
Binance's margin trading is known for its liquidity. You can access this margin platform by switching from Spot to Isolated 5x as shown in the image below. The link is here.
Few more important points:
If you didn’t know, margin trading allows you to borrow and trade. Currently, one can acquire 5X worth of Hive tokens.
Binance is the second exchange to support margin trading for Hive. The first one was MXC (and my personal experience wasn’t really the best here)
Hive will be under isolated margin trading — meaning only the funds in the margin account will be utilised. So there is a clear separation between your spot account and margin account.
In the past, tokens with margin trading have seen exponential swings (both sells and buys). You can expect similar volatility here.
Because one can borrow BTC and USDT, the daily interest rates are 0.0265 (for BTC) and 0.0.49% (for USDT). These are standard rates. For $500 per day, you are paying 25 cents. Pretty cheap, right?
Note that isolated margin is both a blessing and a curse. One has to trade safely. For those who are new, here is a quick example:
Say you have $100 worth of Hive in your account. You can transfer it to Binance — then transfer it to the margin account. Now you follow these steps using your $100 worth of Hive:
- You can borrow Hive / BTC / USDT
- You can borrow maximum of 5X ($500 if you invested $100)
- Then you can use these $500 to go long or short
- If you go long, you are betting the price to go UP
- If you go short, you are betting the price to go DOWN
- Once borrowed, you will be paying the interest rate
Overall, because Binance offers better liquidity than MXC, this move will attract and activate several hundreds and thousands of traders.
Good times are certainly here. 💪
Cheers,
Sid
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Damn, this will bring in a lot more buys especially as we're probably watching just the beginning of a bull run!
True. Can't wait to see what's next. Excited to even think about the bull run. Lot of people are ready. And that is scary.
Hi, thanks for the info! Does this mean that we can also lend hive to margin traders?
Right now, NO Hive. Matter of activating this feature though. If the exchange lacks fund, or sees enough interest, they might add Hive. We can only wait for now. :)
Very good question but I do not think Binance allows you to lend your crypto as collateral ? Or do they?
They have a lending platform but it's not related to margin trading I think.
Binance has a lending feature but not related to margin. Link here. We have to see what's next.
Oh wow.
More good news. Let's see where we go from here.
I am not crypto savy yet, but it sounds like good news!
Margin is simple. You borrow loan to trade more than what you have. Also very risky. Don't play yet. People lose money too!
As they do in real life too. There will always be wins and losses. One's attitude around both cases determines their success
Love this:
Good energy! Will leave this here...
Awwwwww now this is so cute! I have a huge smile now hahhaha, thank you!
Well this is good for volumes but it makes it harder for the Hive whales 🐳 to “control” the token’s price.
It will be clearly something to monitor. Thanks for the news !
Haha! Well said. Did you know dolphins have more power than whales? Mentioned it this week in the newsletter.
Excited to see what's next for us. :)
This is great . About 4 new currencies were added to the isolated margin trading platform. This is good for hive though it might increase its volatility over time
Wow, this is pretty good news.
Absolutely Great news 👍