Hit market on a big order and you pay for it twice: once in fees and again in the levels you chew through on the way. Your average fill ends up worse than the price you clicked.…
On the MEXC app the Open Long button is the last step, not the first. MEXC Learn's beginner futures guide orders it as: set position mode, margin mode and leverage, then pick the…
0.02% sounds like nothing until you count how many times you pay it. Bitunix's fees guide puts real dollar amounts on spot and futures orders, and the useful part is seeing how…
Most people picture liquidation as one instant where the position vanishes. BYDFi's Help Center lays it out as a sequence, and a couple of steps in it surprise people, especially…
A 0% fee label on a stablecoin pair is real, but it only covers one line of the bill. KCEX's guide on USDT to USDC conversion, out this morning, walks through the costs that…
On most futures accounts, a second order on the same pair in the same direction is not a second trade. Buy BTC at 60,000, buy again at 58,000, and you end up with one blended…
An IPO headline can carry four different prices: the offer price, the opening price, the intraday high and the first-day close. Shares offered at $20 that open at $28 "popped".…
The most common beginner mistake with liquidation is thinking it happens when the price on the chart hits some number you worked out from your margin. On KCEX it is a bit…
Worked example first. BTCUSDT on Bitunix was trading at 81,151.7 this morning (Mark 81,138.0, Index 81,175.2, 24h range 80,889.0 to 82,034.2 at about 10:19 AM ET, per the…
Live BloFin BTCUSD Perp board, captured Oct 18 around 10:23 PM ET: last 82,230.9, Mark 82,233.9, Index 82,290.3, 24h range 80,565.8 to 82,437.3, funding +0.0172% with 05:36:20 on…
Most traders think the only way the exchange closes your position is liquidation. On KCEX there is a second way, and it targets the opposite kind of trader: Auto-Deleveraging…
KCEX's guide starts with a made-up but very familiar trade. Mid price 100.00. Best bid 99.98, best ask 100.02. You rest a buy at 99.98, it fills, it looks like you bought under…
Most guides spend all their time on the entry. BloFin Academy has a full guide on the other half of the trade, and the useful part is that the close buttons do very different…
A lot of traders believe higher leverage makes a trade earn more. BYDFi's help article on USDT-M P&L shows with one position why that's wrong: the profit in USDT never moves,…
Live KCEX BTC/USDT perpetual board, captured Oct 18 around 10:24 PM ET: last 82,366.9 (+0.91%), Index 82,393.4, Mark 82,366.9, funding +0.0092% with 05:35:02 on the countdown,…
Here is the contradiction that confuses a lot of traders every FOMC week: between September and December 2024 the Fed cut its target range from 5.25-5.50% to 4.25-4.50%, a full…
Look at the red box in the image before anything else. BYDFi's grid form is telling the user their bot would be liquidated before price ever reaches the bottom of the grid they…
[Beginner guide] The most common first-week mistake on futures is treating the leverage number as a "how bullish am I" dial. On Bitunix it is really a "how close is my…
[Current events] Picture two traders on Wednesday. One opens a 50x BTC short at 82,000, sure the bounce is done. The other buys at 84,000 with 25x, sure the breakout is real. By…
A perpetual future is a futures contract with no expiry date. On MEXC it stays open until you close it or it gets liquidated, and a regular funding payment between longs and…
Most people treat a BYDFi event reward like free USDT sitting in the futures wallet. It isn't. BYDFi pays event in at least three different forms, and each one follows its own…
No. KCEX lists 0% maker and 0% taker for spot, so the commission line on a normal spot fill reads zero, but the price you actually get can still sit well away from the price you…
Live Bitunix BTCUSDT perpetual web chart, captured Oct 18 around 10:27 PM ET: last 82,350.1, Mark 82,350.2, Index 82,380.4, 24h range 80,627.0 to 82,581.4, funding 0.0089% on the…
Say you open a 10,000 USDT BTCUSDT perpetual long on BloFin, hold it for one full day, and close it at the same price you got in. Price did nothing. You still paid somewhere…
Official MEXC Learn hero art for a Bitcoin valuation explainer: an orange Bitcoin coin dropping into a graduation cap, a Tether coin floating above it, dark navy background.…
Example first, with made-up round numbers. You open a 0.01 BTC long on the KCEX BTC/USDT perpetual at 80,000 USDT with 25x leverage, and you have 200 USDT in your futures…
10,000,000 USDT. That is the "max position under selected leverage" Bitunix shows on its Adjust leverage sheet at 50x on BTCUSDT, and it confuses a lot of first-time futures…
Most people pick a lead trader on BloFin by ROI and never touch the copy mode. That is backwards: the copy mode decides how big every copied order is, and two people copying the…
