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.
5 хвилина читання ↗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.
8 хвилина читання ↗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.
6 хвилина читання ↗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.
7 хвилина читання ↗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.
9 хвилина читання ↗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.
7 хвилина читання ↗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.
7 хвилина читання ↗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.
8 хвилина читання ↗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.
7 хвилина читання ↗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.
7 хвилина читання ↗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.
6 хвилина читання ↗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.
8 хвилина читання ↗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.
5 хвилина читання ↗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.
7 хвилина читання ↗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.
5 хвилина читання ↗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.
7 хвилина читання ↗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.
7 хвилина читання ↗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.
8 хвилина читання ↗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.
5 хвилина читання ↗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.
8 хвилина читання ↗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.
7 хвилина читання ↗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.
7 хвилина читання ↗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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