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Crypto Derivatives Explained: Futures, Options and Perpetuals
A plain overview of crypto derivatives: how futures, options and perpetual contracts work, and the ways they can influence spot prices and market risk.
Market Structure
Derivatives and Leverage
Explaining futures, funding and liquidations as market mechanics and risks.
CME Futures and Institutional Access Explained
How regulated CME bitcoin futures work, how they differ from offshore crypto derivatives, and why institutions often prefer them. Educational, not advice.
Leverage and Margin: How Amplified Losses Work
Worked examples show how leverage and margin magnify gains and losses in crypto, why liquidation happens, and why higher leverage leaves less room for error.
Liquidation Cascades Explained
How forced closures of leveraged positions can feed rapid price drops in crypto, why cascades happen, and what limits or worsens them. Educational overview.
Long-Short Ratio and Positioning Data
How the long-short ratio and other positioning data are calculated, what they can show about crypto traders, and the biases that make them easy to misread.
Open Interest: What It Tells and What It Does Not
Open interest counts outstanding derivatives contracts. Learn how it is calculated, how it differs from volume, and the common ways people misread it.
Options Basics: Calls, Puts and Implied Volatility
An educational introduction to crypto options: calls, puts, strike, premium and expiry, plus what implied volatility means and what it cannot predict.
Perpetual Futures and the Funding Rate
How perpetual futures work without an expiry date, and how periodic funding payments between longs and shorts keep the contract price close to spot.
Short Squeezes in Crypto Markets
How a short squeeze works in crypto: forced buying by short sellers pushes prices up, with a plain walkthrough of how one typically unfolds and what limits it.
The Futures Basis and Contango
Why dated crypto futures usually trade above or sometimes below spot: the futures basis, contango and backwardation, with a simple annualised example.
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