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Markets: Trading
#DERIVATIVES
#ORDER TYPES
What Is Liquidation?
Liquidation is what happens when a leveraged position runs out of room. The exchange, clearing house, or protocol forcibly reduces or closes the position before losses exceed the collateral meant to support it — and that mechanism is central to how derivatives markets stay solvent.
Mar 21, 2026
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23 min read
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What Is a Margin Call?
A margin call is one of the few market mechanisms that can turn a paper loss into an immediate demand for cash. It exists because someone has extended you credit, and when the collateral buffer gets too thin, the lender moves to protect itself.
Mar 21, 2026
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25 min read
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What is Index Price?
An index price is the reference price derivatives exchanges trust when the traded price itself may be noisy, thin, or manipulable. It is built by aggregating outside market data so margin, funding, and liquidation decisions depend on a broader market signal rather than a single venue’s last trade.
Mar 21, 2026
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25 min read
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What is Isolated Margin?
Isolated margin exists for a simple reason: traders often want leverage without giving one bad position access to their whole collateral pool. By ring-fencing margin at the position or symbol level, isolated margin turns a portfolio-wide risk into a local one — useful, but never risk-free.
Mar 21, 2026
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24 min read
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What Is Leverage?
Leverage is what makes a small amount of capital control a much larger market position. That is why it is attractive — and why it fails so violently when markets move the wrong way: the same mechanism that magnifies gains also shrinks your margin buffer and brings liquidation closer.
Mar 21, 2026
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23 min read
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What is Cross Margin?
Cross margin looks safer because it gives a position access to more collateral. That is true — but only in a very specific sense. The same pooling that helps one trade survive can also let one bad trade consume the buffer for everything else in the account.
Mar 21, 2026
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23 min read
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What Are Funding Rates?
Funding rates are the mechanism that makes perpetual futures behave like spot markets even though they never expire. They look like a small periodic fee, but they are really a market-wide incentive system that transfers cash between longs and shorts to pull perpetual prices back toward the underlying index.
Mar 21, 2026
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26 min read
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What Is a Delta Neutral Strategy?
A delta-neutral strategy tries to remove price direction from a trade without removing the trade itself. That sounds contradictory until you see the mechanism: combine positions so a small move up or down in the underlying roughly cancels out, leaving exposure to other forces like volatility, time decay, or funding.
Mar 21, 2026
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22 min read
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What Is Backwardation?
Backwardation matters because the shape of a futures curve changes what it means to hold, hedge, or roll a contract. When nearby futures trade above later ones or above spot relationships imply scarcity, the market is signaling that having the asset sooner is unusually valuable.
Mar 21, 2026
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21 min read
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What Is Basis?
Basis looks simple: cash price minus futures price. But that small spread is where hedges succeed or fail, where delivery economics show up, and where financing costs, location differences, and market structure become visible.
Mar 21, 2026
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26 min read
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What is Contango?
Contango looks simple — futures prices above spot prices — but the interesting part is why that gap exists and what it does to traders, hedgers, and investors. Once you see contango as the price of carrying exposure through time, the shape of the curve starts to make mechanical sense.
Mar 21, 2026
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22 min read
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What Is a Stop Order?
A stop order looks simple: pick a trigger price, and your position should protect itself. The important detail is what happens next — when the stop is hit, the order usually turns into a market order, which means execution is likely, but the price is not promised.
Mar 21, 2026
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23 min read
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