Guides (18)
Each guide explains one trading scenario with formulas and examples, plus the calculators you can use right away.
Futures Leverage & Margin Guide: Understand Before You Trade
What is leverage and margin in crypto futures? How does leverage magnify PnL and liquidation risk? Isolated vs cross explained with formulas and practical examples.
Read guide →Liquidation Price Guide: How Liquidation Actually Happens
What determines the liquidation price? Why do the same leverage settings give different liquidation levels? Isolated vs cross margin and maintenance margin, explained with a practical checklist.
Read guide →Position Sizing & Stop-Loss Guide: Manage Risk Before Reward
How much should you risk per trade? Where do you place stops? Convert account risk, stop distance and take-profit targets into one repeatable trade plan with a fixed-risk model.
Read guide →Trading Costs Guide: Fees, Funding and Slippage
How are trading fees, funding rates, slippage and the break-even price calculated? Why does high leverage not reduce costs? Know the real cost before you claim a trade is profitable.
Read guide →Options Basics Guide: Calls, Puts and Expiry Payoffs
What are calls and puts? How are premium, strike price, expiry P&L and break-even calculated? Learn the four basic shapes with single-leg options and two starter strategies.
Read guide →DCA & Compounding Guide: Let Time Build Your Position
How does dollar-cost averaging smooth your entry price? How does it compare with lump-sum investing? Why is compounding the core of long-term returns? Turn a plan into concrete numbers.
Read guide →Grid Trading Guide: Range, Spacing and Capital Allocation
Which market conditions suit grid trading? How do you choose the range, grid count and capital per grid? How much do fees and funding eat? Know the parameters before running a grid into a trend.
Read guide →Volatility & ATR Guide: Base Your Stops on Volatility
What does volatility measure? How is ATR calculated? Why are fixed-percentage stops too tight in calm markets and too loose in wild ones? Convert volatility across timeframes and set stops that adapt.
Read guide →Strategy Evaluation Guide: Expectancy, Drawdown and Risk-Adjusted Returns
Why is win rate not the whole story? What do expectancy, profit factor, max drawdown, Sharpe and Calmar each measure? Turn “this strategy feels good” into comparable numbers.
Read guide →Arbitrage & Hedging Guide: Basis, Funding and Hedge Ratio
What does spot-futures arbitrage earn? How do you estimate funding-rate arbitrage annualized returns? How many futures do you need to hedge? Put “it looks safe” into basis, funding and position math.
Read guide →Multi-Leg Options Guide: Spreads, Straddles, Condors and Butterflies
Why is one leg not enough? What view do call spreads, straddles, iron condors and butterflies each express? How do you compute cost, max loss and both break-evens? Learn the payoff shapes.
Read guide →Averaging Down & Martingale Guide: The Math Trap of Lowering Cost
How is the average entry price calculated? When is averaging down a plan and when is it self-comfort? Why is “martingale always recovers before you run out” dangerous? Break the trap down with numbers.
Read guide →Kelly Criterion & Position Sizing Guide: How Big Is Too Big
Does positive expectancy mean you should bet it all? How does the Kelly criterion find the optimal fraction? Why is half-Kelly common in live trading? Replace courage with math before one big position ruins the curve.
Read guide →Options Greeks Guide: Reading Delta, Gamma, Vega and Theta
Why does an option “in the right direction” still not move? What do Delta, Gamma, Vega and Theta each measure? Use Black-Scholes and Greek calculators to break option risk into manageable numbers.
Read guide →Pivot Points & Key Levels Guide: Give Your Trade a Coordinate
How are pivot points calculated? What are the classic P/R/S formulas? Why not rely on swing highs and lows alone? Combine pivots with volatility ranges for clear entry, stop and target levels.
Read guide →Crypto Units & Precision Guide: Sats, BTC, Gwei and ETH
How many sats are in one BTC? Why is gas priced in Gwei? What if order books, APIs and wallets show different units? Convert carefully — “off by a zero” is not a math problem, it is a money problem.
Read guide →Spot Trading & Returns Guide: PnL, ROI and Annualizing
How is spot PnL calculated? How does ROI differ from the ROE used in futures? How do you annualize returns across holding periods for fair comparison? Put spot profits on a common scale.
Read guide →Futures Position Basics Guide: Notional, Contracts and ROE
What is notional value and why are fees based on it? How do contracts and coin quantities convert? Why does ROE look at margin? Align position size, margin and return conventions in one pass.
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