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Andrew Borum

Everstrike Launches First Floating Strike Perpetual Options

Dubbed as “the perpetual future of options”, the floating strike perpetual option is a novel type of option that doesn’t expire, and that remains relevant in perpetuity. It was originally introduced in May 2021, by Paradigm researcher Dave White, in a paper titled Everlasting Options. “Perpetual options give traders

How Exchanges Handle Position Liquidations: A Brief Overview

Liquidation procedures vary widely across crypto exchanges. This article provides an overview of the most popular ones. Full, Immediate Liquidation * Your position is transferred to the liquidation engine at its bankruptcy price. Duration: 0 seconds. Time: Immediately after your liquidation price is hit. Result: -100% equity. Fees: No fees. You

Mark Price, Index Price, Fair Price: How Are They Calculated?

A solid price index is essential for any crypto derivatives exchange. The primary purpose of the price index is to help the exchange in establishing “The One True Price” — the price that the exchange uses when evaluating whether to liquidate a position or not. The last traded price (Last Price)

Market Making 101 — Part 2

In the last section of this series we covered the very basics of market making. We covered the fundamentals that make market making a viable strategy and introduced the adverse selection problem. In this article we will explore some simple ways to deal with the adverse selection problem. Quick recap

Market Making 101 — Part 1

You buy a Bitcoin for $8000 and sell it for $8010. You just made a $10. You keep doing this all day. Buy for $8000, sell for $8010. At 5 pm, you have sold 99 Bitcoins and made $10x99 = $990. Let’s make it $1000 You place an order to

ELI5: What Are Perpetual Futures?

You may have wondered — what are these perpetual futures that everyone are talking about? How do they work? I have good news for you. Perpetual Futures are really not that much different from regular futures. Perpetual Futures have a concept called funding, which sounds scary at first but is actually

The Ultimate Guide to Scalping Crypto

Is "scalping" a viable trading strategy? Only if you do it the right way. This guide provides an overview of the three main types of scalping, and how they relate to other trading strategies (such as swing trading and market making).

Perpetual Options - The Greeks

The greeks of a perpetual option are determined by two factors: Its money-ness (ITM, OTM, ATM) and its funding period.

Perpetual Options - The Basket Analogy

A perpetual option can be thought of as a basket of European-style options, each of which has the same strike price but different expiration dates.

Why You Should NEVER Short Perpetual Futures

Shorting perpetual futures is TERRIBLE risk reward. Here's what you should do instead.