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OKX Portfolio Margin Explained: How Risk Is Calculated
OKX portfolio margin nets positions by underlying, stress-tests them together and liquidates in stages. Here is how the margin numbers are built.
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Crypto Liquidation Price vs Bankruptcy Price: Why They Differ
Liquidation price is where the venue acts; bankruptcy price is where your margin hits zero. The gap between them explains who pays for the forced close.
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Gold ETFs vs Gold Futures: Costs, Exposure and Risks
A gold ETF holds bullion and charges an annual fee; a gold future holds a dated claim and embeds its cost in the curve. The two are not substitutes.
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Coinbase Advanced Order Types: Market, Limit, Stop-Limit
On Coinbase Advanced the order type and time in force are encoded in one key. Here is how market, limit and stop-limit orders are submitted and filled.
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Bybit Funding Fees Explained: A Worked Perpetual Futures Example
Funding is a payment between longs and shorts, priced off mark value and settled on a clock. A live BTCUSDT example shows the exact arithmetic.
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Binance Options Explained: Premiums, Calls, Puts and Risk
A Binance option is a strike, an expiry and a premium. Live 85,000-strike contracts show how calls, puts, margin and mark price actually behave.
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Binance Cross vs Isolated Margin: What Changes at Liquidation?
Cross and isolated margin hold the same position against different collateral. Here is what that changes about liquidation price, fees and account risk.
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Position Sizing From a Risk Budget, Not a Feeling
Risk budget divided by stop distance gives the position, and the same division shows why a tighter stop quietly turns fees into a fifth of your risk.
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OKX Proof of Reserves: What a 103% Ratio Actually Shows
OKX publishes a 103% aggregate reserve ratio and a 48th monthly report. Read per asset, two of the eight sit at 100% and part of the backing is held elsewhere.