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This reference explains how Freqtrade handles pair naming, fees, and strategy execution. Spot pairs use a base and quote currency, while futures pair names also identify the settlement currency. Profit calculations include fees: simulations use the…
The document introduces spot trading as buying or selling cryptocurrency at the current market price with the asset intended for immediate delivery. It contrasts this with futures and options, which involve contracts tied to later transactions or specified…
The document explains how a crypto debit card funds purchases by converting crypto to fiat at the point of sale. It contrasts this with traditional debit cards and crypto credit cards, covering funding, liquidation timing, spending limits, rewards, credit…
The document outlines Lyra V2 as a decentralized options venue that replaced its earlier automated market maker model with a gasless central limit order book and on-chain settlement. It describes an app-chain architecture based on an optimistic Layer 2…
This document reports a backtest of a long-only strategy labeled TV_RSI on hourly BTC-USDT candles from Binance. It covers 493 days, from January 1, 2020, through May 8, 2021. The report lists 94 closed trades, a 179.25% total net profit, a 27.04% maximum…
The document defines a stablecoin depeg as a departure from the value the token is intended to track. It uses a dollar-pegged token falling below its target as an illustration. It notes that small deviations can occur when liquidity is insufficient, while…
This document explains an index trading mode that maintains a portfolio across a configured set of cryptocurrencies. When the bot starts, it checks which assets are held and their portfolio weights. If an asset is missing or its weight differs from the…
This document describes the API workflow for deploying HIP-1 and HIP-2 assets on Hyperliquid. The core process sends five actions in order: register the token specification, distribute initial balances and blacklist settings as needed, finalize genesis using…
The document describes borrowing against SOL to access liquidity or buying power without selling the asset. The SOL remains pledged as collateral while the loan is open, so the borrower retains price exposure, and the collateral is released after repayment.…
The document describes an automated dollar-cost averaging executor that distributes an entry or exit across a sequence of orders. Its configuration includes a market, trading pair, side, order amounts and prices, leverage, order mode, and optional profit,…
The author explains why Bitcoin markets can suit systematic trading, citing continuous access, low entry barriers, active spot and futures markets, and opportunities across platforms. The main lesson is to understand the economic reason a strategy should…
This reference describes Hyperliquid’s information endpoint for retrieving market and account data across perpetual and spot markets. It covers mid prices, order book snapshots, candles, open and historical orders, fills, order status, user portfolios, fees,…
This guide outlines U.S. federal tax reporting topics for digital asset activity during the 2025 tax year. It describes taxable disposals, including crypto-for-crypto trades, and treats staking rewards as income when the taxpayer gains the ability to control…
This tutorial describes a simple spot arbitrage approach across two cryptocurrency exchanges: buy on the venue with the lower price and sell on the one with the higher price when the spread is large enough to cover trading costs. It explains that the…
This glossary explains spot pegged orders, which derive a limit price from the order book instead of requiring a fixed price. A primary peg references the best price on the same side of the book; a market peg references the best price on the opposite side.…
This exchange note explains how spot market orders consume the best available prices and liquidity until the requested quantity is filled or the order book cannot supply more. It distinguishes insufficient account balance, which causes rejection, from…
This page is a beginner-oriented overview of cryptocurrency topics, including coin and token types, wallets and custody, transactions, stablecoins, tokenomics, staking, and major assets. Its FAQ section discusses energy use, potential payment and inclusion…
This weekly market note connects Bitcoin ETF flows and continued GBTC selling with pressure on BTC prices, while describing the effect of past GBTC premiums and subsequent liquidations. It reports that BTC risk reversal skew had begun to recover from a low…
A crypto ATM is a physical kiosk for buying cryptocurrency with cash or a card, and some machines also let users sell crypto for cash. For purchases, the customer provides a wallet address and the machine sends the cryptocurrency directly to that wallet.…
The document explains how Bitcoin ETFs provide indirect exposure to bitcoin through shares traded on traditional exchanges. It distinguishes spot funds, which hold bitcoin, from futures funds, which track futures contracts, and leveraged futures funds, which…
The document explains two Hyperliquid aligned quote asset specifications. AQAv1 links a stablecoin’s onchain supply to protocol revenue sharing and offers trading incentives when the asset is used for eligible spot pairs or HIP-3 perpetual markets. Its…
The document explains Bancor as a decentralized automated market maker that uses asset pools to support trading. Users deposit tokens and receive pool tokens representing their claim on the deposit; traders pay fees, which are shared with liquidity…
This note explains two cash-and-carry approaches to perpetual futures funding. When funding is positive, it buys spot and shorts the perpetual contract to collect payments from longs. When funding is negative, it describes borrowing and selling spot while…
This tutorial outlines the design of a simple cryptocurrency spot grid strategy. It defines an equal-difference grid around an initial price, with grid levels extending both above and below that starting point. Each level stores its price and whether a buy…