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TRADING STRATEGIES

A collection of 10 issues

What Trading Will Look Like In 2030

In 2030, more than 50% of all orders will be submitted by AI. Traders will predominantly submit prompts instead of orders. Intelligent agents will interpret the prompts and submit orders based on them. Intelligent agents will work in a loop - making decisions every few seconds based on input data

7 Arbitrage Strategies That Are Still Accessible To Retail Quants in 2025

It's a common fallacy that only big firms / established players can do advanced latency- and execution-sensitive strategies such as HFT and arbitrage. In crypto, there have been at least a dozen such strategies that could be successfully run by a single person on their laptop for at least

Perp DeFi Strategy Has A 240% Daily Funding Yield And Is Accessible to Anyone

This perpetual options strategy boasts a funding rate of 10% per hour.

Risks With Perpetual Options

Learn about the main risks with perpetual options and how they compare with perpetual futures.

Perpetual Options vs. Perpetual Futures

Perpetual options work exactly like perpetual futures - except for one key difference: They have a strike price. ‍If you're already trading perpetual futures, you'll have no problems getting accustomed to perpetual options as well. ‍If you haven't traded perpetual futures before, it might

Wash Trading Gone Wrong - How A $100M/Day Crypto Exchange Accidentally Bankrupted Itself

This is the story of BaseFEX - a crypto exchange that unintentionally bankrupted itself through wash trading. It's a cautionary tale for any crypto exchange looking to get ahead by faking volume - and a solid guide for anyone who knows a bit of coding, and wants to

Perpetual Options vs. European-Style Options - What's The Difference?

The perpetual option is a relatively new type of exotic option (introduced in 2021) that seeks to rival the traditional, European-style option. It distinguishes itself by having no expiration, funding (a novel concept that makes the volatility premium continuous, rather than lump-sum), and floating strike prices (strike prices that follow

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

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).