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Former eToro Analyst to Provide Crypto-Trading Course for Cointelligence

"Crypto has to be seen from a macro perspective," Mati Greenspan says.

Credit: Mati Greenspan
Credit: Mati Greenspan

Mati Greenspan, the financial-markets analyst who stepped down last month from crypto-friendly trading platform eToro to start his own research and consulting firm, plans to offer training videos on trading bitcoin and other digital assets through the website Cointelligence.

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Greenspan, whose new firm Quantum Economics specializes in research and analysis on financial markets, says the new online training course will include some interactive features and will likely cover trading strategies as well as a broad overview of the crypto industry and economic topics that could affect the price of digital assets like bitcoin.

The course will launch "soon," said Greenspan. He expects to offer some in-depth but broad analysis of the crypto markets.

"Crypto has to be seen from a macro perspective," Greenspan said in a phone interview.

Greenspan, 36, built up a following in the crypto markets as a senior market analyst for eToro, which started out as a foreign-exchange website but pivoted in 2017 to add a focus on bitcoin and other digital assets.

Cointelligence specializes in crypto-focused training courses and market-surveillance tools including an exchange-rating system, according to its website. The company also provides research to corporate clients on blockchain and cryptocurrency topics. Cointelligence CEO On Yavin confirmed the arrangement with Greenspan via a WhatsApp message.

Greenspan's new firm is one of a growing number of research shops set up in recent years to provide analysis on cryptocurrencies, a role typically played in traditional financial markets by Wall Street brokerages and credit-rating firms.

Bradley Keoun

Bradley Keoun is CoinDesk's managing editor of tech & protocols, where he oversees a team of reporters covering blockchain technology, and previously ran the global crypto markets team. A two-time Loeb Awards finalist, he previously was chief global finance and economic correspondent for TheStreet and before that worked as an editor and reporter for Bloomberg News in New York and Mexico City, reporting on Wall Street, emerging markets and the energy industry. He started out as a police-beat reporter for the Gainesville Sun in Florida and later worked as a general-assignment reporter for the Chicago Tribune. Originally from Fort Wayne, Indiana, he double-majored in electrical engineering and classical studies as an undergraduate at Duke University and later obtained a master's in journalism from the University of Florida. He is currently based in Austin, Texas, and in his spare time plays guitar, sings in a choir and hikes in the Texas Hill Country. He owns less than $1,000 each of several cryptocurrencies.

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