ADVFN provides free CME Bitcoin futures data to users - available on ADVFN and InvestorsHub as contracts go live on CME

December 18th, 2017 -- InvestorsHub NewsWire -- ADVFN (LSE:AFN) is now offering free CME Bitcoin futures data to its four million registered users.

Bitcoin futures trading began on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) yesterday and retail investors using ADVFN and InvestorsHub - the global stocks, shares and crypto information websites - can access this delayed information at no cost at: www.advfn.com and www.investorshub.com.

The futures contracts allow investors to go long or short Bitcoin using a traditional instrument rather than holding the cryptocurrency directly. There are four futures contracts available: Jan 2018, Feb 2018, Mar 2018 and Jun 2018. The ticker on ADVFN for the January 18 contract is CME:BTCF18.

Anyone visiting the ADVFN site can obtain quotes, view charts and access real-time news for CME Bitcoin Futures (https://uk.advfn.com/stock-market/CME/BTC%5CF18/share-price). Users can add these contracts to their portfolios and see bid, offer, highs, lows and current prices along with traded volumes. They can also view them on their monitor pages alongside their other investments.

"Private investors can now bet on the direction of Bitcoin's price movement without actually owning the underlying asset, which demonstrates again how Bitcoin is becoming increasingly mainstream," said Clem Chambers, CEO of ADVFN. "ADVFN's users have a very strong appetite for cryptocurrencies so we have acted fast to give them immediate free access to CME Bitcoin futures data."

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About ADVFN

ADVFN (www.advfn.com) is a global stocks and shares information website providing market-leading financial tools and data to private investors around the world.

Offering real-time share prices, news feeds, charting, portfolio management, monitor lists, financials, data from 79 global stock exchanges, Level 2 and the most active financial bulletin board in the UK (along with many other features), the site is the destination of choice for day traders and retail investors.

Established in the last quarter of 1999, ADVFN (LSE:AFN) was floated on the London Stock Exchange's AIM market in March 2000. ADVFN began trading on the American OTCQX market under the symbol "IHUBY" in August 2014. The site currently has approximately four million registered users who generate in excess of 177 million page impressions a month.

Originally a UK-based site, the company currently operates in the US, UK, Brazil and Dubai. Global expansion has been a key area for ADVFN in recent years.

ADVFN has a joint venture in Brazil, a country in which ADVFN has a geographic and language targeted website. This is in addition to its US, French, German, Italian, Canadian, Japanese, Indian, Mexican and Filipino ADVFN financial sites.

In September 2006 ADVFN acquired InvestorsHub.com, a leading online investment community website in the North American market.

ADVFN bought AllIPO, an online IPO trading platform, as well as stock brokerages TSCTrade and Throgmorton Street Capital in July 2009.

In 2013 ADVFN acquired Finance Manila, a key resource in a rapidly growing market economy.