What is a leveraged ETP?

Leveraged ETP products are a type of financial derivatives that are very popular in traditional financial markets.

It is a trading product that achieves a certain multiple (such as 3 times) of the daily asset return rate of the tracking target under the premise of a given underlying asset (such as BTC).

If the price of BTC rises by 1%, the net value of the corresponding 3x leveraged ETF product will rise by 3%; while the net value of the corresponding -3x leveraged product will fall by -3%.

Leveraged ETP is a perpetual product with no expiration date, and the price will not completely return to zero, so there is no risk of liquidation.

Investors can buy or sell in the secondary market at any time without paying any margin to achieve the purpose of trading leverage.

Fixed-leverage tokens are denominated in USDT, and the trading mechanism is similar to currency trading. A leveraged ETP is essentially a unit share corresponding to a fixed leveraged product.

The product manager ensures that the product return is anchored to a fixed target multiple of the return of the underlying asset.

Investors can obtain a certain amount of the underlying asset by trading the ETP product share. Earnings of the specified multiple.

When the volatility of the underlying asset in the opposite direction exceeds a set threshold, the product manager will readjust the position by introducing a rebalancing mechanism to ensure that the loss of the net value of the product will not exceed a certain limit.

In short, through the risk control measures of the product management side, ETP investors can avoid the worry of liquidation and obtain a certain leverage multiple of the underlying assets.

At present, each token supports 3 times long (3X Long) and 3 times short (3X Short) and multi-times.

You can check the complete list of leveraged ETPs through [Official Website – Quotes – Spot Quotes – LDZ – ETP].

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Advantages of leveraged ETP

Here are the advantages of why leveraged ETPs are worth paying attention to:

1. No margin is required for spot trading

Users can buy leveraged ETP on BKEX just like buying ordinary spot goods, so that users can avoid problems such as margin and forced liquidation risks.

Taking 3 times long BTC (BTC 3L) as an example, users only need to look at the price and net value – enter the purchase quantity – choose to buy BTC 3L, no other operations are required.

2. Compound interest effect risk control

The leveraged ETP will automatically transfer the profit of the position to the principal, that is, if the leveraged ETP purchased by the user generates a floating profit (the floating profit before rebalancing), then when the next rebalancing occurs, the floating profit will make the leveraged ETP position Increase, that is, add a position that is 3 times the floating profit, making the income form a compound interest model.

At the same time, leveraged ETP has its own risk control mechanism (see the rebalancing mechanism section for details).

For example, if a user is 3 times long on BTC contracts, and then BTC drops by 33%, then the user’s position will undoubtedly be liquidated, leaving him with nothing.

However, if the user buys BTC 3 times long (BTC 3L), the leveraged ETP will fall according to the market conditions, and the position will be adjusted through the rebalancing mechanism to avoid the user’s position being liquidated.

Even if the BTC price drops by 33%, the user’s position will still remain Assets remaining.

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The price mechanism of leveraged ETP

The essence of leveraged ETP is to ensure that ETP holders enjoy a fixed target multiple of the daily income of the underlying assets through fixed leverage income.

This fixed leverage product is managed by the platform or a manager approved by the platform.

The platform publishes the net value of products in real time to maintain a high degree of transparency.

Theoretically speaking, the net value is the fair transaction price of ETP shares in the secondary market.

However, due to fluctuations in market sentiment, there may be a situation where the transaction price in the secondary market deviates from the fair price (net product value) during a certain period of time, resulting in a certain premium.

When the premium exists, there will be arbitrage opportunities, and arbitrageurs in the secondary market can gradually eliminate the premium through arbitrage operations to ensure that the token transaction price closely follows the fair price.

For ordinary users, they should pay attention not to deviate too much from the net value of their order price, otherwise they will suffer greater losses.

At the same time, when the net value price is lower than a certain threshold (0.1U at the beginning), the platform will perform a merger operation on the product (the net value price will become 10 times before the merger, but the corresponding quantity will also become 1/10 of the pre-merger, The user’s total assets will not be affected in any way) to improve the sensitivity of price changes and optimize the trading experience.

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Calculation of Net Worth

The fixed leverage product is essentially an active management product, so that its rate of return in each cycle is anchored to M times the rate of return of the underlying assets.

As the price of the underlying asset changes, the position at the beginning of each cycle must be adjusted to ensure that this goal can be achieved.

The position adjustment is mainly based on the net value at the beginning of each cycle, so that the risk exposure of this cycle is anchored to M times the risk exposure of the underlying asset.

If the net value at the beginning of the current period is S(tk), the exposure set at the beginning of the period is an equivalent USDT position of M * S(tk).

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Rebalancing mechanism of leveraged ETP

Normally, the platform will rebalance positions at 00:00:00 (UTC+8) every day to ensure that the combined leverage ratio does not deviate too much from the agreed ratio.

And when violent fluctuations occur, if the fluctuation range of the underlying asset compared with the previous rebalancing point exceeds a given threshold (in the initial stage, BKEX sets the threshold to 15% for 3 times long and short, in the future, if products with other multiples, the threshold may increase different), BKEX will also conduct temporary rebalancing to control the risk of the investment portfolio.

Temporary rebalancing is only for the party that loses money due to this fluctuation range, that is, if the BTC rises by 15%, BKEX will rebalance the leveraged ETP of -3 times, and will not make adjustments to other products.

Please note that if the market trend continues after the occasional rebalancing is triggered, the user’s loss will be smaller, but if the market trend reverses immediately after the trigger, the rebound speed of the product will also be weakened due to the lightening of the rebalancing.

As mentioned earlier, if a daily leveraged ETP makes a profit, the profit will be reinvested. If there is a loss, part of the position will be sold and the leverage will be restored to 3 times to avoid the risk of forced liquidation.

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Daily Changes

Take the positive BTC three times bullish product as an example, if the daily trend of BTC is +10%, +10%, +10%, +10%, then the 4-day yield of this product is 185%, which is higher than 3 times of 44% of the 4-day spot profit; if the daily trend of BTC is -10%, -10%, -10%, -10%, then the 4-day loss of this product is 76%, which is less than the 4-day spot loss 3 times of 35%; if the daily trend of BTC is +10%, -10%, +10%, -10%, then the 4-day yield of this product is -17%, which is lower than the 4-day spot yield -2% 3 times.

Therefore, when the time spans a rebalancing cycle, the leveraged ETP cannot guarantee the relationship between the multi-day cumulative rate of return and the spot rate of return to maintain a fixed multiple.

Generally speaking, under the trending market, the performance of leveraged ETP will be better than the declared leverage ratio (that is, the cumulative increase of ETP in the same direction will exceed 3 times the underlying rate of return, while the decline of ETP in the opposite direction will be less than 3 times the underlying rate of return ), and the performance of leveraged ETP will be worse than the declared leverage ratio under volatile market conditions.

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Fee rate of leveraged ETP

Leveraged ETP trading pairs are spot transactions, and the transaction fees are as follows:

The transaction fee for buying and selling leveraged ETP products on BKEX is 0.15% for Maker and 0.2% for Taker.

At the same time, BKEX will charge a certain management fee for each leverage every day (the management fee charged for different currencies will vary.) to pay for the necessary expenses such as funding fees and transaction fees generated by the ETP portfolio.

The management fee will be reflected in the change in the net value, that is, it will be presented in the form of ‘deducting the value of the corresponding leveraged ETP’, and it will only be charged at 0:00 Singapore time.

If you do not hold the product at this point in time, no fee will be incurred.

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Applicable scenarios of leveraged ETP

Due to the position adjustment mechanism of leveraged ETP, its most applicable market situation is: unilateral market (or trend market) , the performance and advantages of leveraged ETP will be very obvious at this time; ) market, the wear and tear caused by leveraged ETP will be more.

Therefore, reducing risk exposure requires a correct judgment on the market price trend first, and secondly, paying attention to the direction of market fluctuations and whether it is a unilateral market.

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Leveraged ETP Product FAQ

What is a leveraged ETP product?
Leveraged ETP products are a type of financial derivatives that are very popular in traditional financial markets. It is a trading product that achieves a certain multiple (such as 2 times, 3 times or -1 times, -2 times) of the daily tracking target asset return under the premise of a given underlying asset (such as BTC). If the price of BTC increases by 1%, the net value of the corresponding 2 times and 3 times leveraged ETP products will increase by 2%, 3%; while the net value of the corresponding -1 times and -2 times products will decrease by -1%, -2%. (Risk warning: If the direction is wrongly judged, there will be a risk that the price will approach zero under extreme market conditions)
How do leveraged ETP products achieve corresponding returns?
The leveraged ETP product is essentially a product managed by a professional financial engineering team, which corresponds to a certain number of futures contract positions. The manager dynamically adjusts the futures positions so that the entire share can maintain a fixed leverage multiple for a certain period of time. The management and maintenance of the investment portfolio are handled by a professional team, allowing investors to easily build their own constant leverage investment portfolio without knowing the specific mechanism.
What is the target of leveraged ETP products?
The leveraged ETP products BKEX launched in the first phase track the increase of BTC. Later, BKEX will launch leveraged ETP products of other popular currencies according to market conditions.
What can be used to purchase leveraged ETP products?
Leveraged ETP can be purchased with USDT.
What are the naming rules for leveraged ETP products?
Take the BTC 3X Long product as an example. Its English name is BTC 3X Long, and its abbreviation is BTC3L. BTC 3X short product, its English name is BTC 3X Short, abbreviated as BTC3S.
How to achieve never liquidation? What is the rebalancing mechanism?
BKEX will regularly rebalance the investment portfolio behind leveraged ETP products, so that the combined leverage ratio and the agreed ratio will not deviate too much. Normally, BKEX will rebalance positions every 24 hours, and when there is a violent fluctuation, if the fluctuation range of the underlying asset compared with the previous rebalancing point exceeds a given threshold (BKEX initially set the threshold to 3 times long and short as 15%, if there are products with other multiples in the future, the threshold may be different.), BKEX will also conduct temporary rebalancing to control the risk of the investment portfolio. Temporary rebalancing is only for the party that loses money due to this fluctuation range, that is, if the BTC rises by 15%, BKEX will rebalance the leveraged ETP of -3 times, and will not make adjustments to other products. (Risk warning: If the direction is wrongly judged, there will be a risk that the price will approach zero under extreme market conditions)
What are the similarities and differences between leveraged ETP products and futures contract products?
Similar to futures contract products, leveraged ETP products are derivatives with a leverage effect, which can amplify investors’ returns and become a cheap risk hedging tool. However, compared with futures contracts, leveraged ETP products mainly have the following unique features: No margin is required, and there is no risk of liquidation (risk warning: if the direction is wrongly judged, there will be a risk that the price will approach zero in extreme market conditions). For investors who do not have much time to watch the market, buying leveraged ETP products can greatly save your energy. Fixed leverage multiple. For futures holders, with changes in asset prices, the leverage ratio of the contract position may change, thus deviating from the original intention of the investor. For example, an investor establishes a short futures position with low leverage. When asset prices rise sharply, the investor’s position leverage ratio will become very high, thus deviating from the investor’s original risk preference. The leverage ratio of leveraged products is basically constant, which allows investors to better follow their investment plans.
What are the similarities and differences between leveraged ETP products and leveraged spot trading?
Compared with leveraged spot trading, leveraged ETP products do not require margin, and there is no risk of being liquidated. At the same time, compared with the capital interest expenses of leveraged spot trading, leveraged ETP products have a lower holding fee.
What is the fee rate for leveraged ETP products?
The transaction fee for buying and selling leveraged ETP products on BKEX is 0.15% for Maker and 0.2% for Taker. At the same time, BKEX will charge a certain daily management fee for each leverage (usually 0.2%, which will be determined later) Market fluctuations are adjusted, and the specific management fee of each target can be viewed on the corresponding transaction page) to pay the necessary expenses such as capital fees and transaction fees generated by the ETP portfolio. The management fee will be reflected in the change of the net value and will only be charged at 0:00 Singapore time. If the product is not held at this point in time, no fee will be incurred.
What is unit equity? What is the difference between Unit Equity and Price?
Each unit of leveraged ETP product corresponds to a corresponding share. The dynamic actual value of this share is the unit net value of the leveraged ETP product. Since this product is actively traded in the secondary trading market at the same time, the latest transaction price may deviate from the net value of the unit. BKEX lists the net value of the unit and the latest transaction price at the same time, hoping that investors can realize that the price you buy/sell should not be higher than the unit There is a large deviation in net worth, otherwise you will suffer corresponding losses in theory. At the same time, when the net value price is lower than a certain threshold (0.05U at the beginning), the platform will perform a merger operation on the product (the net value price will be changed to 10 times before the merger, but the corresponding quantity will also become 1/10 of the pre-merger, The user’s total assets will not be affected in any way) to improve the sensitivity of price changes and optimize the trading experience.
What kind of investors are leveraged ETP products more suitable for?
As a product that has been tested in the traditional financial market, leveraged ETP products are suitable for most investors. However, this product is especially suitable for investors who believe that asset prices will have a trend and investors who do not want to bear the risk of liquidation. Due to the existence of management fees and the inherent characteristics of leveraged ETP products, this product will suffer a large loss under volatile and repeated market conditions. In addition, there will also be a risk that the net value of 3L and 3S products tends to return to zero in other extreme and sharply volatile market conditions, such as continuous skyrocketing and continuous plummeting.
How to buy leveraged ETP products?
At present, the trading pairs of leveraged ETP products are located in the ETP zone, and you can easily purchase related products in the corresponding zone just like buying other digital assets.

Hereby, users are solemnly reminded that in order to protect their own funds, please fully understand the product design and price fluctuation mechanism before trading to avoid unnecessary losses.

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