Trading
Limit Orders vs. Market Orders: How Each One Actually Fills on a Crypto Exchange
A market order fills immediately at the best available price while a limit order fills only at your price or better — and the difference shows up directly in…
Home / Trading
Trading
Trading concentrates on execution: where liquidity actually sits, how spreads and funding costs eat returns, what leverage does to a margin balance, and how experienced desks size and exit positions. Written for active traders who understand direction already and now want the mechanics deciding whether a good call earns anything.
Execution coverage for active crypto traders: choosing venues, reading spreads and funding, managing leverage, and sizing a position to survive a drawdown.
Trading
How Market, Limit, and Stop Orders Work on Crypto Exchanges
A breakdown of how market, limit, stop, and stop-limit orders execute on crypto exchanges, and the tradeoffs traders weigh between execution speed, price…
Trading
What Paper Trading Teaches Crypto Traders — and What It Cannot
Paper trading executes simulated orders against live prices with no money at risk, which makes it excellent for testing mechanics and worse than useless for…
Trading
How Cross-Exchange Crypto Arbitrage Works
The same bitcoin trades at different prices on different venues at the same moment; arbitrage is the business of capturing that gap, and the gap is mostly a fee…
Trading
How the Funding Rate Basis Trade Works
The basis trade buys spot bitcoin and sells the perpetual future against it, harvesting the funding the leveraged crowd pays — market-neutral in price, but not…