{"id":418406,"date":"2020-03-17T12:17:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T12:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniquehot.com\/?p=418406"},"modified":"2024-06-11T15:48:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T15:48:57","slug":"bitmex-okex-binance-and-deribit-which-stood-out-in-this-extreme-market-with-best-market-depth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniquehot.com\/news\/bitmex-okex-binance-and-deribit-which-stood-out-in-this-extreme-market-with-best-market-depth\/","title":{"rendered":"BitMEX, OKEx, Binance and Deribit: Which Stood out in This Extreme Market with Best Market Depth"},"content":{"rendered":"
Last week was some of the darkest hours of global financial markets. Affected by the COVID-19 epidemic and oil price war, global stock markets, crude oil price, gold price and futures markets dived successively. While people were eager to seek robust investment targets and found that Bitcoin might be the last sort of safe-haven asset, BTC plummeted by approximately 50% on March 13 to a low of $3,791.9.<\/p>\n
The sudden drop in prices not only impacted the entire crypto market, but also challenged crypto exchanges worldwide. When huge traffic flooded exchanges with intense fear in a short period of time, whether an exchange had enough market depth to support such a large number of orders to protect the interests of users to the greatest extent became the most important thing for traders.<\/p>\n
Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n BitMEX, OKEx, Binance and Deribit are all leading exchanges with unique edges and have been well-received by traders for a long time. However, the crash on March 13 exposed a huge gap between them in terms of market depth, especially in the BTC futures market.<\/p>\n From the data of several dimensions, such as trading volume, loss of insurance fund, open interest and whether the ADL (Auto Deleveraging) mechanism was triggered, it can be clearly seen that the trading depths of BitMEX and OKEx are top-tier, while those of Binance and Deribit were slightly affected<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Trading Volume<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to Skew, the 24h BTC futures trading volume on OKEx reached $15.55 billion and overtook BitMEX ($11.98 billion) by approx. 40% to rank the 1st when the crash struck on March 13. While the trading volume on Binance was $5.22 billion and $2.15 billion on Deribit.<\/p>\n Capital always flows to profitable investments. In free markets, investors choose the most favorable exchange for trading. Therefore, trading volume does reflect investors\u2019 acceptance of an exchange to a certain extent.<\/p>\n Loss of insurance fund<\/strong><\/p>\n The role of the insurance fund is to cover margin call losses and make up for the part of profits that winning traders should have earned when a default appeared. The greater the amount of default, the greater the losses of insurance fund. If an exchange does not have enough market depth to handle rapid and large volatility, default is likely to occur in large numbers.<\/p>\n Thus, the loss of insurance fund is an important indicator of market depth.<\/p>\nSource: Skew<\/pre>\n