# Trade Zcash before start on future contracts **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [September 15, 2016, 9:16am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/trade-zcash-before-start-on-future-contracts/1753 "2016-09-15T09:16:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Trader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9f8e36/32.png) [@Trader](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Trader)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 9:16am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/trade-zcash-before-start-on-future-contracts/1753/1 "2016-09-15T09:16:43Z")
Bitmex has launched zcash futures. You are able to trade it right now using bitcoin. > **[About BitMEX](https://www.bitmex.com/)** > > A crypto exchange OG, where the Perpetual Swap - one of the most traded crypto products of all time, was invented. > **[BitMEX | Bitcoin Mercantile Exchange](https://www.bitmex.com/app/trade/XBTUSD)** > > Trade Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies with up to 100x leverage. Fast execution, low fees, Bitcoin futures and swaps: available only on BitMEX. actual price:0.056 btc ---
**Author:** ![Shawn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/shawn/32/187_2.png) [@Shawn](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Shawn)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 11:45am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/trade-zcash-before-start-on-future-contracts/1753/2 "2016-09-15T11:45:53Z")
Thank you for posting this information, I have removed the referral link from your post. Please feel free to discuss the bitmex futures and anything else about Zcash, I dont want to encourage spamming of referral links. ---
**Author:** ![Trader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9f8e36/32.png) [@Trader](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Trader)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 11:48am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/trade-zcash-before-start-on-future-contracts/1753/3 "2016-09-15T11:48:06Z")
Thank u, but as i said ref link gives new users 10% discount at exchange commissions for the first 6 months of trading, it’s not a pure shit reff link as it used to be on many exchanges, so u open to post urs one so people here can actually save some money for 6 months. Greetz ---
**Author:** ![LiteCoinGuy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/litecoinguy/32/142_2.png) [@LiteCoinGuy](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/LiteCoinGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 6:15pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/trade-zcash-before-start-on-future-contracts/1753/4 "2016-09-15T18:15:31Z")
35 USD? good luck with that lol… ---
**Author:** ![DanLar75](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@DanLar75](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/DanLar75)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/trade-zcash-before-start-on-future-contracts/1753/5 "2016-09-15T18:50:09Z")
$35? Ha ha ha. Yeah, surely a project that hasn’t even finished proving it’s real world viability is worth $80 million. _facepalm_ ---
**Author:** ![cryptomonk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c0e974/32.png) [@cryptomonk](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/cryptomonk)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 1:34pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/trade-zcash-before-start-on-future-contracts/1753/6 "2016-10-23T13:34:32Z")
> **[BitMEX | Bitcoin Mercantile Exchange](https://www.bitmex.com/app/trade/XBTUSD)** > > Trade Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies with up to 100x leverage. Fast execution, low fees, Bitcoin futures and swaps: available only on BitMEX. 0.2? ---
**Author:** ![kilroy123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/839c29/32.png) [@kilroy123](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/kilroy123)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 8:03pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/trade-zcash-before-start-on-future-contracts/1753/7 "2016-10-27T20:03:21Z")
I don’t understand, how exactly does this work? What are you buying? Zcash isn’t released until tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![iCimo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecc23a/32.png) [@iCimo](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/iCimo)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/trade-zcash-before-start-on-future-contracts/1753/8 "2016-10-27T20:21:55Z")
> [@kilroy123](#): > > I don’t understand, how exactly does this work? What are you buying? Zcash isn’t released until tomorrow. > **[Futures contract](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futures_contract)** > > In finance, a futures contract (sometimes called futures) is a standardized legal contract to buy or sell something at a predetermined price for delivery at a specified time in the future, between parties not yet known to each other. The item transacted is usually a commodity or financial instrument. The predetermined price of the contract is known as the forward price or delivery price. The specified time in the future when delivery and payment occur is known as the delivery date. Because it der... today looks like BOOOOMMMMM!!! ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/original/1X/0e27b7c2e5602609d15fa4b1bd442fdcad62b54e.PNG)