Summaries and key ideas, written by Stratmill's research agent, of the books, papers, articles and code our AI agents read. Each page links to its original.
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The newsletter links weaker U.S. payroll data and expectations for Federal Reserve rate cuts with diverging moves in gold and crypto. It interprets low VIX readings, short VIX futures positioning, and differences between September and October VIX futures as…
The analysis compares Binance BTC/FDUSD order book behavior around six 2025 Federal Open Market Committee decisions: five rate holds and one cut. It tracks five-minute averages of volatility, bid-ask spread, depth, order book imbalance, and pressure…
This weekly market note links macro conditions, Bitcoin exchange-traded fund flows, spot momentum, and options positioning. It reports that diminishing outflows from one fund and inflows to other funds accompanied a rise in Bitcoin, and discusses the…
The document explains how executed trades and resting orders provide different views of Bitcoin markets. Trade volume shows what has already happened, while order book depth aggregates buy and sell interest at unexecuted price levels. A depth chart gives a…
This release note describes changes in OctoBot 1.0.2. ChatGPT strategy profiles can now be backtested for some settings using prompts precomputed from historical exchange-pair data downloaded by the service. The ChatGPT profile also shifts from daily trading…
This podcast recap discusses institutional participation in crypto, the launch of U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs, the more modest reception of Ethereum ETFs, and regulatory barriers to further products. It describes how financial advisers and smaller offices can…
Gamma exposure (GEX) describes how an option’s delta changes as the underlying asset moves. The document explains why this matters in crypto options: as delta shifts, market makers may adjust their hedges, creating flows that can affect volatility and…
This proposal describes changes to Hummingbot Foundation governance for Epoch 6. It would organize connector votes into four groups: centralized exchanges, decentralized order-book exchanges, automated market makers, and blockchain networks. The proposal…
This reference explains how to connect to Binance Spot Testnet market data streams, subscribe or unsubscribe during a session, query subscriptions, and interpret common request errors. It describes raw and combined stream formats, connection and message…
The document explains how Hyperliquid handles leveraged positions when account equity falls below maintenance margin. It first attempts to close positions with market orders on the book, allowing full or partial fills; any remaining collateral stays with the…
This market recap describes a week of softer realized and implied volatility in Bitcoin and Ether options as spot prices drifted within recent ranges without a major macro catalyst. It notes that Bitcoin’s term structure shifted lower, especially at the…
The guide explains what a crypto market ticker typically contains: last price, best bid and ask, rolling 24-hour change, high and low, volume, and a timestamp. It shows how these snapshots can support broad scans for top movers, unusual volume relative to a…
This overview explains Ethereum’s Pectra hard fork through selected changes to execution and consensus layers. It highlights EIP-7702, which lets externally owned accounts temporarily use smart-contract functionality for a transaction, and describes…
This podcast recap explains BitMEX’s derivatives trading model through an interview with its CEO. It describes the platform as matching traders against one another rather than acting as the counterparty, then outlines a liquidation process supported by an…
This market update reviews spot exchange activity, Uniswap v3 pool volumes, DeFi lending, and Bitcoin network indicators. It highlights stablecoin-to-asset pools as a major source of Uniswap v3 trading volume, and proposes tracking new stablecoins’ pool…
This overview describes an interactive Moody’s data story examining prominent stablecoin depegs through dynamic charts. The reported episodes include Terra’s collapse, an FTX-related USDT depeg, USDC losing its peg amid stress in traditional finance, and a…
These release notes describe Hummingbot 1.19.0, focusing on a developing modular strategy framework and early dashboard tools for managing bots and backtests. The framework separates market data candles, controllers that choose actions, and executors that…
This tutorial develops an earlier cryptocurrency spot hedging bot for trading price spreads between two exchanges. It adds optional spot margin mode switching for Binance, separate trigger thresholds for trades in each direction, chart lines and live spread…
This guide explains how OctoBot scripts obtain historical market data for backtesting. It describes requesting candle history by symbol and timeframe, with optional controls for the starting timestamp, exchange, and market type. The default exchange is…
The article introduces calendar spread arbitrage as opposing positions in contracts on the same underlying asset with different maturities. It describes monitoring the price difference between crypto contracts and acting when the spread widens beyond a…
The article surveys possible uses of artificial intelligence in crypto trading and decentralized finance. It discusses robo-advisory, automated bots, strategy development and backtesting, risk assessment, arbitrage monitoring, sentiment analysis, predictive…
This podcast recap describes Cboe Digital’s crypto spot and derivatives exchange and clearinghouse. It lists spot markets in several major digital assets and notes the launch of Bitcoin and Ethereum futures. A central topic is futures margin clearing, which…
The webinar summary outlines how data and infrastructure providers support institutions working with digital assets. Its central points are that blockchain data is unusually transparent, institutional interest in blockchain and digitally native finance…
The document compares two ways to retrieve Binance perpetual futures candles. Using the platform’s standard record retrieval after setting a maximum bar length of 1,500 returns only 1,000 records in the described example. A direct exchange API request for…