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		erikig on April 30, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bitcoin hits US$ 4, after being mentioned on CNN y... Here's a quick realtime view of the markets Mt. Gox included. http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/ There's pretty decent volume and the bid/ask spread is gradually tightening. Just for some perspctive, the US Dollar index futures trade about 15,000 contracts a day, (granted they are much easier to convert). I'll keep an eye on this...

DavidSJ on April 30, 2011 [–]

A US dollar futures contract represents 1,000 dollars. So that's $15 million per day.

Gaussian on April 30, 2011 | [–]

I think it's the value of the index X $1,000. So the notional value traded per day is more like $1.1 billion because the index is now around 73.

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