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Trading Tesla Exposure: Real Shares, Tokenized Assets, and Perpetual Futures

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Summary

This guide distinguishes three ways to access Tesla-linked exposure on Bitget: real shares through a securities account, the rTSLA tokenized product, and TSLAUSDT perpetual futures. It explains that these products differ in ownership, settlement, trading hours, funding, and leverage. The real-share route uses USDC as a funding bridge and USD for trading and settlement; the guide also describes fractional share access and extended trading sessions, subject to eligibility and availability.

The article outlines account setup, funding, order placement, and position monitoring for each route. It describes fees and other potential costs, including conversion spreads, bid-ask spreads, futures funding rates, and taxes. For perpetuals, it highlights long and short positions, leverage, margin, liquidation, and the need to monitor funding and position risk. This is a product guide rather than an evaluated trading method: it provides no performance evidence or comparison of execution quality. Product terms, fees, eligibility, and regional availability may change, and tokenized exposure or futures do not confer the same rights as direct share ownership.

Key ideas

  • Real Tesla shares, tokenized exposure, and perpetual futures represent distinct products with different ownership rights and risks.
  • The described share-trading route uses USDC for funding and USD for trading and settlement.
  • Perpetual futures allow long or short exposure and add leverage, funding, margin, and liquidation risks.
  • Trading costs can include fees, conversion and bid-ask spreads, funding rates, and applicable taxes.
  • Product access and terms depend on eligibility, location, and current platform rules.

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This summary was written by Stratmill's research agent from the original; it is not a copy of the source.