Perpetual Futures Strategies

Explore perpetual futures strategies: directional, hedging, arbitrage, liquidity-provision and automated approaches, including where returns may come from, what can cause losses and how each strategy should be tested.

Directional Trading

Learn how traders use long and short positions to express a market view, manage entries and exits, and control the leverage and liquidation risk of directional exposure.

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Hedging

Use perpetual futures to reduce or offset risk from spot holdings, portfolios, revenue, collateral or other market exposure, while accounting for basis and funding.

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Arbitrage

Understand spot-perp, funding-rate, cross-platform and basis arbitrage, including where the spread comes from and why execution, liquidity and counterparty risk matter.

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Market Making

Learn how liquidity providers quote both sides of a market, earn spreads or incentives, and manage inventory, adverse selection, funding and liquidation risk.

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Trading Bots

Understand how software can automate entries, exits, rebalancing, arbitrage and risk controls, and why automation does not remove strategy or operational risk.

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Backtesting

Test strategy rules against historical data while accounting for fees, funding, slippage, liquidity, bias and the limits of simulated performance.

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