Crypto trading foundations
Markets, order mechanics, perpetual contracts and the language needed to do careful research.
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Cross-Venue Perpetual Radar: Tracking Binance, Bybit, and Hyperliquid Funding & OI Divergence
Analyze cross-venue perpetual futures disparities across Binance, Bybit, and Hyperliquid: funding rate spreads, open interest divergence, and basis arbitrage mechanics.
قراءة لمدة 5 دقيقة ↗02 / FIELD GUIDECrypto Perpetual Funding Rates: Read the Sign, Interval and Payment
Learn how crypto perpetual funding changes by venue and interval, calculate signed settlement cash flows, and record funding honestly in research.
قراءة لمدة 8 دقيقة ↗03 / FIELD GUIDECrypto Liquidation Heatmaps: How Clusters Form and What They Reveal
Understand how leverage clusters form below and above key price zones, why heatmap estimates differ from exchange books, and how cascade mechanics unfold.
قراءة لمدة 6 دقيقة ↗04 / RESEARCH GUIDECrypto Market Sessions: Research a 24/7 Market without Guessing
See what 2018–2025 intraday studies show, convert UTC windows correctly, and test session effects without mistaking activity for liquidity or an edge.
قراءة لمدة 7 دقيقة ↗05 / PRACTICAL EXPLAINERCrypto Order Types Explained: Market, Limit, Stop and TWAP
Learn what market, limit, stop and TWAP orders control, where fills can fail, and how time-in-force and trigger rules change across crypto venues.
قراءة لمدة 9 دقيقة ↗06 / BEGINNER GUIDEFrom Crypto Basics to Perpetual Futures Research: A Beginner Learning Path
A staged path from blockchain basics, custody and wallet safety to orders, perpetual futures, liquidation and evidence-first research, with a checkpoint per stage.
قراءة لمدة 7 دقيقة ↗07 / PRACTICAL EXPLAINERCrypto Spread, Liquidity and Slippage: Calculate a Market Order's Cost
Calculate a fictional crypto market order across bid and ask levels, separate spread, depth impact and fees, and learn why candles cannot prove a fill.
قراءة لمدة 7 دقيقة ↗08 / CALCULATION GUIDECrypto Trading Fees: Maker vs Taker and Round-Trip Cost
Calculate maker and taker crypto fees from partial fills, check today's venue schedule, and keep funding, spread and slippage separate.
قراءة لمدة 8 دقيقة ↗09 / BEGINNER GUIDECrypto Trading for Beginners: Learn the Market Before You Build a Plan
A practical beginner's guide to crypto spot and perpetual markets, order execution, a fictional position-size example and an evidence-first practice workflow.
قراءة لمدة 7 دقيقة ↗10 / PRACTICAL EXPLAINERDEX Swap Quotes vs Perpetual Order Books: How Execution Cost Differs
Compare a swap quote's price impact and slippage tolerance with a perpetual order book's bids, asks and depth, using fictional numbers and an audit checklist.
قراءة لمدة 7 دقيقة ↗11 / FIELD GUIDEHyperliquid Whale Tracker: How Position Consensus and Flips Actually Work
Understand how on-chain perpetual whale tracking works on Hyperliquid, why net positioning flips matter, and how to separate recorded ledger facts from speculative noise.
قراءة لمدة 6 دقيقة ↗12 / CALCULATION GUIDELong vs Short in Perpetual Futures: P&L Math with Examples
How a long and a short make or lose money on a linear perpetual: return on position vs collateral, fees and funding in the net result, and the break-even move.
قراءة لمدة 8 دقيقة ↗13 / FOUNDATIONALMaker Rebates and VIP Fee Tiers: Minimizing Friction in Perp Trading
Calculate maker-taker spreads, post-only order mechanics, fee tier progressions, and the structural impact of execution drag on long-term edge.
قراءة لمدة 5 دقيقة ↗14 / MECHANICS COMPARISONMark Price vs Index Price vs Last Price in Crypto
Understand last trade, oracle or index, and mark price in crypto derivatives. Compare Hyperliquid's inputs, reproduce a fictional price gap, and identify the field behind a trigger, valuation or fill.
قراءة لمدة 7 دقيقة ↗15 / FIELD GUIDENegative Funding Rate Playbook: Short Squeeze Mechanics in Crypto Perps
Analyze negative funding rates, perpetual discount dynamics, forced short covering cascades, and spot-led recovery setups.
قراءة لمدة 5 دقيقة ↗16 / FIELD GUIDEOpen Interest and Funding: Read Crypto Perp Positioning
What open interest counts, the four price and OI combinations, which side funding shows paying to stay in, and why crowding is context, not a forecast.
قراءة لمدة 7 دقيقة ↗17 / PRACTICAL EXPLAINEROrder Filled vs Transaction Finalized: Pending, Filled, Confirmed and Final in Crypto
Separate an order's lifecycle on a venue from a blockchain transaction's status, and learn which IDs, signatures and timestamps a journal needs to reconcile them.
قراءة لمدة 7 دقيقة ↗18 / SIMULATOR GUIDECrypto Paper Trading: What a Simulator Can Teach—and Miss
A practical crypto paper-trading guide to fill models, quote-side P&L, order-state records and the evidence still missing before any live comparison.
قراءة لمدة 8 دقيقة ↗19 / FOUNDATIONALPerpetual DEX vs CEX: Execution, Slippage, and Counterparty Risk Comparison
Compare onchain CLOBs and AMMs with centralized venues across latency, gas, MEV, fee schedules, and insolvency risks.
قراءة لمدة 5 دقيقة ↗20 / BEGINNER GUIDEWhat Are Perpetual Futures? How Crypto Perps Work
A plain-language definition of crypto perpetual futures: no expiry, collateral, the funding mechanism, mark price and linear P&L, with worked SOL examples.
قراءة لمدة 8 دقيقة ↗21 / PRACTICAL EXPLAINEROracle Prices in Perpetual Futures: How Venues Reference Spot and Where Oracle Risk Hides
What an oracle price is, why perpetual venues and DeFi lending need outside references, how oracle feeds fail, and a checklist for naming the price behind a test or stop.
قراءة لمدة 7 دقيقة ↗22 / BEGINNER GUIDEHow to Read Crypto Candlestick Charts: Open, High, Low and Close
Read crypto candle bodies and wicks, calculate an example bar, spot live-bar changes, and turn chart observations into testable rules without guessing the intrabar path.
قراءة لمدة 7 دقيقة ↗23 / COMPARISON GUIDESpot vs Perpetual Futures: What Actually Changes When You Trade?
Compare cash-funded crypto spot with perpetual futures through matched exposure, collateral, funding, custody, mark prices and liquidation risk.
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