In Q1 2025, bitcoin holders across the CIS region lost more than $26 billion as a result of the cryptocurrency market crash. Analysts at brokerage firm XFINE published their expert opinion on the causes of this sharp decline and also offered a number of recommendations for reducing investment risks.
In their view, alongside diversification of an investment portfolio, an effective method of capital protection could be hedging with CFD contracts (Contracts for Difference). To do so, an XFINE client simply needs to open a short position to sell a corresponding volume of the crypto asset.
Thanks to margin trading, such investment protection could cost as little as 1% to 10% of the asset’s current value, depending on the type of trading account.
The article featuring XFINE analysts’ expert opinion was published in over 100 media outlets across Russia, Belarus, Azerbaijan, and other countries, with a total monthly readership exceeding 800,000.
The full article can be read here