Perps: funding rates, leverage, liquidation.
Perpetual Futures — the full guide to this subject.
Auto deleveraging - ADL - is an exchange’s last-resort mechanism when a liquidation cannot be fully absorbe...
Basis spread is the percentage difference between a perpetual futures contract’s price and the underlying s...
Every perpetual futures trader eventually faces a choice, and the two paths are fundamentally different. Ce...
Cross margin is a risk mode that pools all collateral across a trader’s perpetual futures positions. Every ...
A multiplier looks like a simple choice. Pick 1x, pick 125x. The reality is nonlinear: each step between th...
A funding rate arbitrage trade exploits the periodic payments between long and short perpetual futures posi...
Perpetual swaps mimic spot-market exposure, but they need a mechanism to keep the contract price tethered t...
Every perpetual futures trader faces a timing question. Should you open a position just after a funding sna...
A liquidation cascade in perpetual futures markets follows a specific order. Understanding that sequence ma...
Isolated margin is a risk management mode available on most perpetual futures exchanges. It locks a defined...
You open a perpetual futures position. You watch the orderbook. The last traded price moves against you, bu...
Open interest tells you how much capital is committed to a market. Long-short ratios show which direction t...
Liquidation in perpetual futures is not always a single, violent event. On some exchanges it is a staged pr...
A stop-loss order is a request. A liquidation is a command.
Auto deleveraging - ADL - is an exchange’s last-resort mechanism when a liquidation cannot be fully absorbed by the insurance fund. It is not the same as standard liquidation. Standard liquidation closes a position when the margin ratio falls below the maintenance threshold. ADL only triggers after
Basis spread is the percentage difference between a perpetual futures contract’s price and the underlying spot index. It captures the market’s real-time directional bias in a single number. When the perpetual trades above spot, the basis is positive; when it trades below, the basis is negative.
Every perpetual futures trader eventually faces a choice, and the two paths are fundamentally different. Centralised exchanges like Binance and Bybit operate one way, holding your collateral, managing order books, and enforcing identity checks. Decentralised platforms such as dYdX and Hyperliquid wo
Cross margin is a risk mode that pools all collateral across a trader’s perpetual futures positions. Every open position draws from the same balance. Unrealized profit from winning trades can offset margin requirements for losing ones. This makes cross margin capital-efficient because you need less
A multiplier looks like a simple choice. Pick 1x, pick 125x. The reality is nonlinear: each step between those numbers compresses your liquidation distance in a way that is not intuitive. The same notional position funded with 10x margin versus 20x margin halves the price move needed to wipe you out
A funding rate arbitrage trade exploits the periodic payments between long and short perpetual futures positions. The cash and carry structure is the simplest form: buy the underlying asset in the spot market and simultaneously short an equivalent amount of perpetual futures. The goal is to collect
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