Module 7: Perpetual Futures
Margin, leverage, funding rates, liquidations, and open interest. How perps work, and how to trade them without blowing up.
- 1. Why Derivatives Exist · about 6 min
- 2. Futures with an Expiry Date · about 5 min
- 3. What a Perpetual Future Is · about 6 min
- 4. Margin and Leverage · about 5 min
- 5. Cross Margin and Isolated Margin · about 5 min
- 6. Index Price, Mark Price, and Last Price · about 5 min
- 7. Funding Rates, the Rent You Pay to Stay in a Trade · about 7 min
- 8. Liquidations · about 6 min
- 9. Open Interest and Positioning Data · about 6 min
- 10. Liquidation Heatmaps and Market Magnets · about 5 min
- 11. Order Types, Execution, and Fees · about 6 min
- 12. Hedging and Basis Trades · about 6 min
- 13. Decentralised Perpetual Exchanges · about 6 min
- 14. Trading Perps Without Blowing Up · about 7 min