Crypto derivatives are easy to access. Hard to use well.
Most guides tell you what the products are. This one shows you how traders choose, price, execute, protect and review them.
Anyone can click long or short. The harder questions come before and after the button. Should the view be expressed in spot, a perpetual, a dated future or an option? When should you join the queue, cross the spread or cancel the order? How do you price funding and basis after fees, slippage and financing? And when is the best trade no trade at all?
Built from more than three decades inside trading, derivatives, liquidity and market structure, this free guide takes you from the first quote to the full trade through worked examples, failure environments and practical desk rules.
Inside the guide
- Choose the right instrument for the economic job.
- Read bid, ask, spread, depth, queue and execution cost.
- Size maximum loss before choosing leverage.
- Read funding, OI, basis and spot leadership together.
- Work through carry, hedging and event-option examples.
- Recognise unlock, squeeze, liquidation and venue risk.
This is only the first door. The next releases will go deeper into open interest and funding, prediction markets, execution, rates and market history.
