How Funding Rates Are Calculated on Perpetual Futures
The funding rate formula on perpetual futures, how its premium and interest parts work, worked examples of what a position pays or receives and what it signals.
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What Is the Crypto Fear and Greed Index?
The Crypto Fear and Greed Index scores sentiment from 0 to 100 using volatility, volume, social media, dominance and search trends. How it works and its limits.
How to Read Trading Volume in Crypto
Trading volume shows how much of a crypto asset changed hands. How to read it, how it differs from liquidity, and how to spot fake volume before you rely on it.
Common Crypto Trading Mistakes
What crypto trading mistakes cost in numbers: overtrading fees, leverage, chasing pumps, no exit plan, revenge trading, fake volume and no records.
How to Calculate Profit on a Crypto Trade After Fees
The formula for net profit on a crypto trade after buy and sell fees, a worked bitcoin example, your break-even price and how fees add up over many trades.
How Crypto Options Work
Crypto options give the right, not the obligation, to buy or sell at a set price by a date. How calls and puts work, what drives premiums and a worked example.
How to Calculate the Annualized Basis on Crypto Futures
The basis is the gap between a futures price and spot. The annualized basis formula, three worked examples, contango and backwardation and how traders use it.
What Happened in the May 2021 Crypto Crash?
In May 2021 bitcoin fell from a record near $65,000 to about $30,000 at one point. The timeline from Tesla's reversal to China's warning and what it showed.