Omni Network Futures & Perpetual Guide: Trade OMNI Futures On Delta Exchange

Understand what OMNI futures are and how to use the leverage in futures to amplify your trading gains

Interested in trading Omni Network futures with Delta Exchange?

OMNI Contracts Listed on Delta Exchange

Omni Network futures enable you to take long (you profit when market goes up) and short positions (you profit when market goes down) on OMNI. Futures have in-built leverage which acts as a multiplier to your returns. Currently, the following Omni Network contracts are listed on Delta Exchange.

Omni Network Perpetual20x

Buy

Sell

OMNI Futures Contract Details

Contract Name	OMNIUSD
Description	Omni Network Perpetual
Max. Leverage	20x
Margin Currency	USD
Taker Fees	0.05%
Maker Fees	0.02%
Contract Type	perpetual futures

What is Omni Network Futures Trading?

Omni Network Futures is an agreement between two parties to buy or sell Omni Network at a predetermined future date and price. The futures contract derives its value from the underlying cryptocurrency, Omni Network in this case. Thus the price of a Omni Network futures contract moves broadly in sync with the price of Omni Network.

Trading futures is thus an alternative to actually buying or selling the underlying crypto (aka spot trading). In spot trading, you can make profit by buying Omni Network low and selling it at a high price. This trade however works only in a bull market, i.e. when Omni Network price is going up. However, in a bear market, there is no trade possible in spot trading. Furthermore, leverage trading is not possible in spot trading.

Trading Omni Network through futures offers several advantages over spot trading of Omni Network, namely ability to both long or short and get access to leverage.

Trade profitably in all market conditions

You can profit from rising OMNI price by going long Omni Network futures. And, when OMNI price is falling, you can make profits by going short. This feature of futures trading enable you to navigate all types of market conditions profitably. Compare this with directly buying Omni Network. When price is falling, you can either sell your Omni Network or suffer losses. In spot trading, there is no way of profiting from falling prices.

Hedge Price Risk

If you are a HODLer, you can still use futures to mitigate price risk. Say, you hold OMNI. You can mitigate the risks you face when Omni Network is falling by going short OMNI futures. In this case, a short futures position acts as a downside protection by effectively locking the $ value of your portfolio without the need for selling your Omni Network. Judicious use of futures as hedge can make you a better and stronger HODLer.

Amplify trading gains with leverage

Leverage enables you to open positions that are bigger than your trading capital. If you can open a position that is 10 times bigger than your trading capital, then you have 10x leverage available to you. The maximum allowed leverage for futures listed on Delta Exchange is as high as 100x. There are two ways of thinking about leverage:

Leverage as capital efficiency driver: For opening a position of a given size, higher the leverage lower the trading capital required. The leverage in spot trading is always 1x, while it is 3-4x in margin trading. This means futures is 20 to 100 times more capital efficient than spot or margin trading.
Leverage as a returns amplifier: Because in a leverage trade position size is greater than the capital deployed, impact of prices moves gets magnified. The return on capital deployed is leverage times the price return. This means that you can amplify your trading gains the effective use of leverage.