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Short, original guides to the mechanics behind short-term crypto and market trading. Educational only — not financial advice.

What is scalping?

A plain-language explanation of short-term scalping, how it differs from day trading, and the costs that matter.

How forced closures work on leveraged crypto contracts, why they cluster, and what a liquidation price is (and is not).

What leverage actually changes, how initial and maintenance margin work, and why a small price move can close a large position.

Position sizing, risk per trade, correlation, and why a string of small losses can still be a large one.

How perpetual-swap funding works, what a high or negative rate can mean, and why it is not a trading signal by itself.

What the crypto Fear & Greed index tries to measure, what goes into it, and how not to treat a single number as a forecast.

What traders mean by support and resistance, how those areas are drawn, and why they are guidelines rather than laws of price.

What stop-loss orders do and do not guarantee, common ways to place them, and how they differ from a liquidation.

How crypto markets differ from the major foreign-exchange market in hours, venues, leverage, and the way prices are formed.

How high-impact macro events are listed, why “consensus” and “previous” matter, and how traders typically treat the minutes around a release.