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.
19,452 documents
This market recap reviews crypto options conditions after an early-month rally, focusing on realized and implied volatility, term structure, skew, trading flows, and dealer gamma. It reports higher realized volatility in BTC and ETH, stronger demand for…
This podcast recap follows Ilan Levy-Mayer’s path into trading and his work at a futures brokerage. It describes the broker’s role in helping hedgers, speculators, and self-directed traders choose platforms, understand markets, and manage risk. The firm’s…
This short troubleshooting excerpt records failed buy and sell attempts for the FT/USDT market on FCoin. The exchange returned an error stating that market orders were disabled for that symbol. The account information shown in the log includes available and…
The article explains how inflation, interest rates, and economic growth can shape crypto prices and liquidity. It recommends comparing crypto returns with inflation measures and traditional markets using rolling correlations and regression, since Bitcoin may…
This historical OKCoin strategy combines short-term price-breakout trading with a portfolio-balance rule. It tracks recent trades, order-book prices, and a smoothed trading-volume measure. When price moves beyond a threshold relative to recent highs or lows,…
This weekly market note assesses Bitcoin and Ether options against a quiet spot market and low recent realized volatility. It discusses implied volatility across maturities, volatility risk premium, and contango in the term structure. The author considers…
This document shows how to submit a single passive-only limit order on BitMEX, place several such orders in one bulk request, and cancel all orders for a specified symbol. The examples use the exchange’s IO interface to call the order, bulk-order, and…
The document outlines delegated proof-of-stake mechanics for HYPE on Hyperliquid. Users can move HYPE from spot to a staking account, delegate it to validators, and earn rewards based on delegated stake after validator commission. Validators need a minimum…
The document explains how Gate.io’s peer-to-peer lending market can support borrowing stablecoins or other cryptocurrencies against collateral. Borrowed coins can fund a leveraged long position or be sold to create a spot short; the text also contrasts this…
The document outlines a basic backtesting workflow: define a strategy, gather historical data, calculate returns and supporting statistics, then decide whether to deploy or refine the idea. It notes that crypto strategies may use pairs trades, rebalancing…
The guide explains how to run a strategy or crypto basket in paper trading through OctoBot cloud. A user starts trading from the selected strategy or basket, chooses paper trading, and sets the size of a virtual portfolio. The simulated bot follows the…
This weekly market commentary reviews crypto options positioning alongside moves in macro markets. It argues that a strong Bitcoin rally coincided with a decline in year-end implied volatility skew, which the authors interpret as traders anticipating slower…
This reference describes Binance’s Spot Testnet WebSocket API for requesting market and account data, placing and managing orders, and receiving user data stream events. It outlines JSON request and response structures, method categories, authentication…
The document describes a delta-neutral crypto strategy that pairs long spot holdings with an equal-notional short perpetual futures position. The matched positions are intended to offset broad price moves, leaving funding payments as the main source of…
This market snapshot reviews crypto developments alongside indicators of institutional and trader positioning. It discusses exchange security after a major exchange hack, a USDC refund mechanism, proposed crypto investment products, US policy changes, and…
The document explains how HyperEVM and HyperCore relate within the Hyperliquid blockchain. HyperEVM shares HyperBFT consensus with HyperCore, allowing applications on the EVM environment to interact with HyperCore’s spot and perpetual order books. The stated…
The document describes an indicator that converts live minute-bar data into bars with a user-selected number of seconds per interval. Its stated approach uses OHLC rate data, so the conversion is presented as possible even when individual ticks are…
This newsletter reviews how macroeconomic uncertainty and US policy signals shaped crypto prices and options conditions. It links employment and inflation data, tariff concerns, and changing expectations for rate cuts with broad risk-asset volatility. It…
The document describes a way to retain Ether exposure for a possible fork token distribution while reducing exposure to changes in Ether’s market price. The proposed position pairs a spot Ether purchase with a sale of an Ether futures contract. It suggests…
The article explains inventory value and the risk market makers face when one side of their orders fills more often than the other. Inventory value is the current worth of a portfolio measured against a reference asset such as a fiat currency. When prices…
This interview describes one trader’s experience using automated crypto market making, including both single-exchange market making and cross-exchange market making. The trader reports preferring pure market making for stablecoins and finding it easier for…
This primer surveys real-time and historical cryptocurrency data used in trading, research, and risk analysis. It distinguishes trade records, price feeds, and order-book data, describing tick-by-tick trades, normalized aggressor direction, snapshots, best…
This podcast recap follows a derivatives trader’s move from FX options into crypto and outlines how an OTC desk serves institutional and high-net-worth clients. The desk makes markets in spot and options, handles customer flow, and manages risk across the…
The article describes growing hedge fund interest in cryptocurrency and attributes it mainly to clearer regulation and more mature institutional infrastructure. It cites industry estimates and examples of established funds entering the market to illustrate…