What Are Perps?
Learn what perps (perpetual futures) are, how they work, and why traders use them. Complete beginner-friendly guide to perpetual contracts with up to 40x leverage.
What Is Funding Rate?
Understand funding rates in perpetual futures trading. Learn how funding rates work, when they're paid, and how they affect your long and short positions on Perpmate.
What Is Liquidation Price?
Learn what liquidation price means in perpetual trading and how to avoid getting liquidated. Essential risk management guide for perp traders on Perpmate.
What Is PnL?
Understand PnL (Profit and Loss) in perpetual futures trading. Learn how to calculate and track your trading performance on Perpmate.
What Is TL (Take Loss)?
Learn what TL (Take Loss or Stop Loss) means in perpetual trading and how to use it to protect your capital from losses on Perpmate.
What Is TP (Take Profit)?
Learn what TP (Take Profit) means in perpetual futures and how to automatically close winning positions at your target price on Perpmate.
What Is Margin?
Learn what margin means in perpetual trading, how collateral works, and the difference between cross and isolated margin. Essential guide for perp traders.
What Is Slippage?
Learn what slippage means in perpetual trading, why it happens, and how to minimize slippage when trading perps on decentralized exchanges.
What Is an Order Book?
Learn what an order book is, the difference between market orders and limit orders, and how order types affect your perpetual trading execution.
What Is Leverage?
Learn what leverage is in perpetual futures trading, how it multiplies gains and losses, and how to choose the right leverage level for your trades.
What Is Cross Margin?
Learn what cross margin mode is in perpetual futures trading, how your entire account balance backs all positions, and when to use cross margin vs isolated margin on Perpmate.
What Is Isolated Margin?
Learn what isolated margin mode is in perpetual futures trading, how it limits risk to individual positions, and when to choose isolated over cross margin on Perpmate.
What Is Mark Price?
Learn what mark price is in perpetual futures trading, how it differs from last traded price, and why it matters for liquidation and unrealized PnL calculations on Perpmate.
What Is Index Price?
Learn what index price is in perpetual futures trading, how it is calculated from multiple spot exchanges, and why it matters for funding rates and mark price on Perpmate.
What Is Open Interest?
Learn what open interest (OI) is in perpetual futures trading, how to interpret rising and falling OI, and how to use it as a market sentiment indicator on Perpmate.
What Is a Long Position?
Learn what a long position is in perpetual futures trading, how to go long with leverage, and how to manage your long trades with TP and TL orders on Perpmate.
What Is a Short Position?
Learn what a short position is in perpetual futures trading, how to go short with leverage, and how shorting works on Perpmate.
What Is a Market Order?
Learn what a market order is in perpetual futures trading, how it executes immediately at the best available price, and when to use market orders vs limit orders.
What Is a Limit Order?
Learn what a limit order is in perpetual futures trading, how it guarantees your execution price, and the difference between maker and taker fees.
What Is a Stop Order?
Learn what stop orders are in perpetual futures trading, including stop-market and stop-limit orders, and how to use them for risk management and breakout entries.
What Is Maintenance Margin?
Learn what maintenance margin is in perpetual futures trading, how it differs from initial margin, and how breaching maintenance margin triggers liquidation on Perpmate.
What Is a Trailing Stop?
Learn what a trailing stop is in perpetual futures trading, how it automatically follows price movement, and how to use trailing stops to lock in profits on Perpmate.
What Is Initial Margin?
Learn what initial margin is in perpetual futures trading, how it is calculated, and how it differs from maintenance margin. Essential guide for managing collateral on Perpmate.
What Is an Insurance Fund?
Learn what an insurance fund is in perpetual futures trading, how it covers bankrupt positions, and why it matters for all traders on decentralized exchanges like Perpmate.
What Is Auto-Deleveraging (ADL)?
Learn what auto-deleveraging (ADL) is in perpetual futures, when it triggers, how it affects profitable traders, and strategies to minimize ADL risk on Perpmate.
What Is Max Leverage?
Learn what maximum leverage is in perpetual futures trading, why different assets have different limits, and how Perpmate's leverage tiers work for BTC, ETH, and altcoins.
What Is a Perpetual Swap?
Learn what a perpetual swap is, how it differs from traditional swaps and futures, and why perpetual swaps became the most traded crypto derivative. Complete guide for Perpmate traders.
What Are Maker and Taker?
Learn the difference between maker and taker orders in perpetual futures trading, how they affect your trading fees, and how to use limit orders to save on costs at Perpmate.
What Is a Liquidation Engine?
Learn how the liquidation engine works in perpetual futures trading, the difference between partial and full liquidation, and how it protects the exchange and traders on Perpmate.
What Is a Bull Market?
Learn what a bull market is, how to identify one, and the best perpetual futures strategies for trading rising markets with leverage on Perpmate.
What Is a Bear Market?
Learn what a bear market is and how perpetual futures traders profit from falling prices by shorting with leverage on Perpmate.
What Is Consolidation?
Learn what price consolidation means, how to identify sideways markets, and how to trade range-bound conditions with perpetual futures on Perpmate.
What Is a Breakout?
Learn what a breakout is, how to identify genuine breakouts vs fakeouts, and how to trade breakouts with perpetual futures and leverage on Perpmate.
What Is Support and Resistance?
Learn what support and resistance levels are, how to identify them, and how perpetual futures traders use them for entries, exits, and stop placement on Perpmate.
What Is a Moving Average?
Learn what moving averages are, the difference between SMA and EMA, and how perpetual futures traders use them to identify trends and trade entries on Perpmate.
What Is RSI?
Learn what RSI is, how to read overbought and oversold signals, and how perpetual futures traders use RSI for trade entries and exits on Perpmate.
What Is MACD?
Learn what MACD is, how to read signal line crossovers and the histogram, and how perpetual futures traders use MACD for trend and momentum analysis on Perpmate.
What Is Volume Profile?
Learn what volume profile is, how to read the point of control and value area, and how perpetual futures traders use volume levels for entries and exits on Perpmate.
What Is Order Flow?
Learn what order flow analysis is, how to read bid/ask imbalances and aggressive orders, and how perpetual futures traders use order flow for precision entries on Perpmate.
What Is Hedging?
Learn what hedging is in perpetual futures trading, how to hedge crypto holdings with short perps, and practical hedging strategies on Perpmate.
What Is Unrealized PnL?
Learn the difference between unrealized and realized PnL in perpetual futures. Understand why your open position gains aren't real money yet, and how closing a trade locks them in.
What Is Basis?
Learn what basis means in perpetual futures: the price difference between a perp contract and the underlying spot price, and why it drives funding rates and trade costs.
What Is Spread?
Learn what bid-ask spread means in perpetual futures trading, why it costs you money on every trade, and how to minimize spread costs when entering and exiting positions.
What Is a Carry Trade?
Learn what a carry trade is: borrowing in a low-interest-rate currency to invest in higher-yielding assets. How it applies to JPY, forex, crypto funding rates, and what happens when carry trades unwind.
What Is an Oracle Price?
Learn what oracle prices are in DeFi and perpetual futures trading, how they bring real-world market data on-chain, and why they matter for funding rates, liquidations, and fair pricing on decentralized exchanges.
What Is Delta Neutral?
Learn what delta neutral means in perpetual futures: a position that profits regardless of which way the market moves, by balancing long and short exposure to eliminate directional risk.
What Is Notional Value?
Learn what notional value means in perpetual futures: the total dollar size of your position (margin × leverage), and why it matters for fees, funding rate costs, and liquidation risk.
What Is Drawdown?
Learn what drawdown means in perpetual futures trading: how far your account has fallen from its peak, why it matters more than a single loss, and how to manage it.
What Is Risk-Reward Ratio?
Learn what risk-reward ratio means in perpetual futures trading, how to calculate it, and why a good ratio matters more than your win rate.
What Is Volatility?
Learn what volatility means in perpetual futures trading, how it affects your stop-loss placement, liquidation risk, and position sizing — and how to trade in different volatility environments.
What Is a Liquidation Fee?
Learn what the liquidation fee is in perpetual futures, how much you lose when liquidated, the difference between maintenance margin and bankruptcy price, and what you get back.