Crypto trading guides
Plain-English explainers for the concepts that actually move your results — risk, sizing, and the metrics that tell you whether your edge is real.
Crypto Leverage and Liquidation, Explained
What leverage does to your risk, how liquidation price is set, and how to size so a normal dip doesn't liquidate you.
What Is a Crypto Trading Journal?
Turn your trade history into an edge: what to log, which metrics matter, and how to review without lying to yourself.
Crypto Funding Rates, Explained
Why perpetuals charge funding, how to read positive vs negative rates, and how to position with funding rather than against it.
What Is an AI Trading Coach?
How an AI coach analyses your real trades, grades your edge, and surfaces the single most valuable change to make next.
The Risk-to-Reward Ratio, Explained
Why R:R beats win rate, how to calculate it, and the break-even win rates every trader should have memorised.
Position Sizing in Crypto Trading
The risk skill that keeps you in the game: fixed-fractional sizing, sizing from your stop, and the mistakes to avoid.
Crypto Trading Fees, Explained
Maker vs taker, spreads, slippage and funding — where your money quietly leaks and how to measure the drag.
Long vs Short in Crypto, Explained
What going long or short means, how shorting works via perps and margin, and the risks on each side.
What Is a Perpetual Futures Contract?
How perps differ from spot and dated futures, plus the three concepts that trip people up: funding, mark price and liquidation.
How to Build a Crypto Trading Plan
Turn random trades into a repeatable process: edge, risk rules, entry/exit criteria, and an honest review loop.
Drawdown and Recovery, Explained
Why a 50% loss needs a 100% gain to recover, what max drawdown reveals, and how to keep drawdowns survivable.
Trading Psychology and Revenge Trading
Why discipline beats prediction, how revenge trading and FOMO destroy accounts, and the systems that keep emotion out.
How to Calculate Your Crypto Liquidation Price
The formula for longs and shorts, a worked example, and why maintenance margin moves the real level closer.
How to Backtest a Crypto Trading Strategy
What backtesting proves (and doesn't), the metrics that matter, the overfitting trap, and testing against your real trades.
How to Improve Your Crypto Win Rate
Why chasing win rate alone backfires, the levers that actually raise profitability, and finding your best setups.
What Is Expectancy in Trading?
The single best measure of whether your trading makes money — the formula, a worked example, and how to use it.
How to Set a Stop-Loss and Take-Profit
Place stops and targets from structure, size from your stop, and avoid the mistakes that turn small losses into big ones.
Trading Journal: Template vs App
Where a free spreadsheet template works, where an auto-syncing app wins, and how to choose between them.
How Much Money Do You Need to Start Trading Crypto?
Why the right amount is about risk, not a magic number, the practical floor fees set, and how to start small safely.
The Crypto Fear & Greed Index, Explained
What the index measures, how it's built, and how to use sentiment extremes instead of getting swept up in them.
Dollar-Cost Averaging in Crypto, Explained
Why averaging in removes timing stress, the maths behind it, and when DCA helps versus when it doesn't.
How to Use RSI in Crypto Trading
What RSI measures, why 'overbought' isn't a sell button, and how to use it as context instead of a trigger.
Crypto Candlestick Patterns, Explained
How to read a candle, the few patterns worth knowing, and why context beats memorising fifty shapes.
Support and Resistance in Crypto, Explained
What S/R levels really are, how to draw the ones that matter, and how to trade around them with defined risk.
How to Track Your Crypto Portfolio
What to actually track beyond price, why spreadsheets stop scaling, and how tracking becomes better decisions.
How to Use MACD in Crypto Trading
What the MACD line, signal line and histogram actually mean — and why crossovers lag, so you use them as context.
How to Use Moving Averages in Crypto Trading
SMA vs EMA, what the golden and death cross really signal, and why moving averages lag — so you use them as context.
How to Use Bollinger Bands in Crypto Trading
How the bands and the squeeze work, what 'riding the band' means, and why they're volatility context — not buy/sell triggers.
What Is Open Interest in Crypto Trading?
What OI measures, how it differs from volume, and what rising or falling open interest says about the strength of a move.
Spot vs Futures Trading in Crypto
Owning the coin vs trading a contract, leverage and liquidation, funding costs — and which fits your goals and risk.
Market vs Limit vs Stop Orders in Crypto
Market, limit, stop and stop-limit orders — when to use each, the speed-vs-price trade-off, and where slippage and fees come in.
How to Use VWAP in Crypto Trading
What the volume-weighted average price measures, how it differs from a moving average, and how traders use it as an intraday fair-value reference.
How to Use Fibonacci Retracement in Crypto Trading
What the 0.382 / 0.5 / 0.618 levels mean, how to draw them on a swing, and how to read pullbacks into them — as context, not a signal.
Bull Market vs Bear Market in Crypto
What defines each phase, how sentiment and market structure shift, and how traders adapt their approach to the regime they're in.
How to Use ATR (Average True Range) in Crypto Trading
What the Average True Range measures, why it gauges volatility rather than direction, and how traders use it to set stop distances and size positions.