Risk and position sizing
Work through exposure, costs, drawdowns, leverage and failure limits with explicit assumptions.
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ATR Stops and Crypto Position Sizing: A Worked Example
Turn a stated ATR stop distance and dollar risk budget into a hypothetical crypto quantity, then account for costs, contract steps and gap risk.
7 хвилина читання ↗02 / ADVANCED PLAYBOOKAuto-Deleveraging (ADL) and Insurance Funds: Why Winning Trades Get Closed
Understand the exchange waterfall when insurance funds deplete, how the ADL queue ranks high-leverage winners, and how to hedge ADL risk.
5 хвилина читання ↗03 / COMPARISON GUIDECross vs Isolated Margin in Crypto: Compare Collateral Exposure
Compare shared cross-margin collateral with position-specific isolated margin using a fictional account ledger, then check the venue rules that determine actual liquidation scope.
6 хвилина читання ↗04 / MECHANICS GUIDECrypto Liquidation Explained: Margin, Mark Price and Venue Rules
Learn how maintenance margin, account mode, mark price and close-out rules affect crypto liquidation, with a worked example that keeps its assumptions visible.
7 хвилина читання ↗05 / ANALYSIS GUIDECrypto Portfolio Correlation: What It Shows—and What It Misses
Calculate return correlation on aligned crypto data, inspect changing windows, and stress-test portfolio exposure beyond an ordinary correlation matrix.
7 хвилина читання ↗06 / PRACTICAL CALCULATIONCrypto Position Sizing: Calculate Quantity from a Planned Risk Budget
Learn the crypto position-sizing formula, include estimated costs, round to a contract's quantity step, and stress several open positions together.
9 хвилина читання ↗07 / CALCULATION GUIDETrading Drawdown and Recovery: See the Asymmetric Path
Calculate the gain needed to recover a trading drawdown, compare common loss sizes and understand why a recovery percentage does not describe future odds.
8 хвилина читання ↗08 / MECHANICS GUIDEWhale Liquidation Distance: Reading the Radar Without Treating It as a Target
How a whale tracker measures the gap between price and a large position's liquidation price, why cross-margin thresholds move, and what a near-liquidation alert can and cannot say.
8 хвилина читання ↗09 / ILLUSTRATED EXPLAINERCrypto Leverage vs Position Size: Exposure and Margin
Learn how crypto leverage differs from position size, compare fixed-notional and fixed-collateral examples, and size a hypothetical trade from a stated loss budget before checking venue margin rules.
8 хвилина читання ↗10 / PROBABILITY GUIDETrading Losing Streaks: Calculate the Odds and Define Ruin
Calculate the chance of a trading losing streak across a stated horizon, see how sizing changes drawdown, and learn why neither number is risk of ruin.
7 хвилина читання ↗11 / QUANT TUTORIALMaintenance Margin Tiers and Leverage Brackets: Liquidation Math Explained
Master tiered margin schedules, position size brackets, effective liquidation prices, and safe buffer estimation for crypto perpetuals.
5 хвилина читання ↗12 / PRACTICAL CHECKLISTPerpetual Futures Mistakes Beginners Make, and Risk Rules
Ten common perpetual futures mistakes, from leverage-first sizing to ignored funding, with the drawdown and losing-streak math behind simple risk rules.
8 хвилина читання ↗13 / FIELD GUIDEThe Perpetual Futures Pre-Trade Risk Checklist: Sizing, Stop-Loss, and Funding Drag
A rigorous systematic 5-step pre-trade routine covering liquidation buffers, taker fee drag, funding carry direction, liquidity depth, and maximum portfolio drawdown limits.
5 хвилина читання ↗14 / CALCULATION GUIDERisk-Reward Ratio vs Trading Expectancy: Why Win Rate Is Not Enough
Calculate net expectancy and break-even win rate from wins, losses and costs, then see how crypto order triggers, actual fills and fees can change a planned reward-to-risk ratio.
7 хвилина читання ↗15 / RISK EXPLAINERStablecoin Collateral for Perpetual Futures: Depeg, Freeze and Margin Risks
Stablecoin margin is not cash. See how issuer, redemption, freeze and depeg risk meet a venue's collateral rules, with a hypothetical example of shrinking margin headroom.
7 хвилина читання ↗16 / COMPARISON GUIDEStop Loss vs Liquidation in Crypto: Triggers, Fills and Margin
Compare stop triggers, order fills and venue liquidation with a worked margin example, current exchange rules and a practical pre-trade audit.
7 хвилина читання ↗17 / RESEARCH CHECKLISTTrading Account and API Key Security: Permissions, Wallets and Recovery Plans
Before connecting a bot or tool: scope API keys, separate signing wallets from storage, protect logins and devices, refuse seed-phrase requests and write a recovery plan.
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