Cryptocurrency market volatility has been viewed negatively by a number of people, many of whom consider crypto to be a bubble about to burst. However, volatility can actually result in greater profits for cryptocurrency traders. Crypto’s high volatility, strong correlations, multiple markets, and developing derivatives can serve as excellent instruments for quantitative trading. Dr. Changhe Qiao has years of experience trading cryptocurrencies and views the high volatility of the crypto markets as an opportunity for the development of “decentralized hedge funds.” “High volatility is an enemy to individual investors, but a friend to hedge funds,” Dr. Qiao told me. Dr. QiaoPowered by WPeMatico
