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1) FTX launched HALF tokens today: Leveraged Tokens with 1/2 exposure to the underlying. ftx.com/trade/HALF/USDT Why bother, if you can just do it yourself without leverage? Well, the first answer is that maybe no one cares, which is fine!

11:00 PM · Apr 13, 2020Twitter Web App

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2) But one interesting thing is the have the opposite price action from BULL/BEAR. When markets go up HALF's BTC holdings go up, so it sells some off to get back to 50/50; when markets go down, it buys back.

SBF

@SBF_FTX

Apr 13, 2020

3) So whereas BULL/BEAR do well under momentum and poorly under mean reversion, HALF is the opposite: it does well under mean reversion and poorly under momentum, relative to a static portfolio.

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SBF

@SBF_FTX

Apr 13, 2020

4) This isn't the coolest thing we've ever launched, or even the coolest thing this week (help.ftx.com/hc/en-us/artic), but it's something that complements the existing products so we decided to go ahead with it.

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Oh boy

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its about the rebalancing. every day the token changes its exposure to 50/50 btc and usd

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By "carefully" analysing your leveraged tokens price action on weekly charts i cannot escape the feeling they are all magnetically drawn to the number 0.