Trading
How Market, Limit, and Stop Orders Work on Crypto Exchanges
A breakdown of how market, limit, stop, and stop-limit orders execute on crypto exchanges, and the tradeoffs traders weigh between execution speed, price…
Trading: Markets and Strategy
Execution coverage for active crypto traders: choosing venues, reading spreads and funding, managing leverage, and sizing a position to survive a drawdown.
Trading
What Paper Trading Teaches Crypto Traders — and What It Cannot
Paper trading executes simulated orders against live prices with no money at risk, which makes it excellent for testing mechanics and worse than useless for…
Trading
How Cross-Exchange Crypto Arbitrage Works
The same bitcoin trades at different prices on different venues at the same moment; arbitrage is the business of capturing that gap, and the gap is mostly a fee…
Trading
How the Funding Rate Basis Trade Works
The basis trade buys spot bitcoin and sells the perpetual future against it, harvesting the funding the leveraged crowd pays — market-neutral in price, but not…
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What Open Interest Shows About Crypto Markets
Open interest counts the derivative contracts still open — money committed and at risk — and its changes alongside price say more about positioning than volume…