Futures

Crypto asset futures are one of the crypto asset derivatives. The crypto asset futures market represented by BTC and ETH has a scale of trillions of dollars. You can obtain profit from the rising or falling prices of BTC or ETH by buying or selling. What is a crypto asset futures and how to trade crypto asset futures? It will be revealed to you in the Gate learn futures section.

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Overview of Perpetual Contract DEX
Beginner

Overview of Perpetual Contract DEX

Perpetual contracts are an essential derivative in the DeFi sector. Due to the lack of a fixed expiration date, these contracts have become a favorite among traders. This article provides an in-depth look at how perpetual contracts work, the operational framework of decentralized perpetual contract platforms, and the role of liquidity providers.
11/7/2024, 9:47:45 AM
How to Use APIs to Start Quantitative Trading
Beginner

How to Use APIs to Start Quantitative Trading

This article will explain how to use Gate.io's trading bots and API features to implement quantitative trading strategies, helping users automate their trades and take advantage of opportunities in the crypto market.
10/21/2024, 11:23:37 AM
The evolution of perpetual DEXs: Niche trading venues to on-chain adoption drivers
Advanced

The evolution of perpetual DEXs: Niche trading venues to on-chain adoption drivers

DEXs let users retain custody of their funds, allow the community to participate and foster open innovation. However, these benefits have historically come at a cost of higher latency and lower liquidity due to the throughput and latency limitations of underlying blockchains.
9/18/2024, 5:51:52 PM
Changes in Funding Rates and Market Impact
Beginner

Changes in Funding Rates and Market Impact

The funding rate is a key element in cryptocurrency perpetual contract trading, influenced by the market. This rate, which reflects the balance between long and short positions, can vary significantly with market movements. A high positive funding rate increases the cost for long positions, while a negative rate raises costs for short positions. These fluctuations can impact trading costs, market volatility, and overall strategy. Traders must monitor the funding rate closely and adjust their strategies accordingly to optimize costs and minimize risks.
8/26/2024, 7:18:40 AM
Onboarding Users into On-Chain Perpetual Contracts Ecosystem
Beginner

Onboarding Users into On-Chain Perpetual Contracts Ecosystem

This article introduces ZKX, an emerging project in the Perp DEX space, covering its background, objectives, and strategies. Facing a competitive market environment, ZKX offers high performance and seamless user experience through its Dapp Rollup/App Chain+CLOB order book infrastructure, attracting a large user base to the on-chain perpetual contracts ecosystem through multiple airdrop incentives and a socially gamified trading model.
7/2/2024, 5:03:24 AM
EIP-3074's Impact on Wallets and DApps
Intermediate

EIP-3074's Impact on Wallets and DApps

This article introduces the innovative impact of EIP-3074 on EOA. By allowing EOA to transfer control to the Invoker contract, it gains the same multi-functional operation capabilities as the contract. This not only significantly improves the user experience, but also reshapes the existing authorization method to make it more secure without changing the user experience.
6/12/2024, 1:42:22 AM
What is Aevo? All you need to know about AEVO token
Intermediate

What is Aevo? All you need to know about AEVO token

Aevo is a decentralized derivatives trading platform dedicated to options and perpetual contracts trading.
4/11/2024, 9:08:34 AM
Perpetual Contract Funding Rate Arbitrage
Beginner

Perpetual Contract Funding Rate Arbitrage

Perpetual contract funding rate arbitrage refers to the simultaneous execution of two transactions in the spot and perpetual contract markets, with the same underlying asset, opposite directions, equal quantities, and offsetting profits and losses. The goal is to profit from the funding rates in perpetual contract trading. Compared to conventional investments, funding rate arbitrage often yields more stable returns with lower risk. It is unaffected by price fluctuations, ensuring arbitrage opportunities and positive returns regardless of market conditions. Although the risk of capital loss in funding rate arbitrage is very low, it still exists. However, overall, it is a strategy with a high investment return ratio.
3/26/2024, 1:13:10 AM
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Intermediate

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LogX is a perpetual contract trading aggregator, helping investors find the optimal trading platform from multiple underlying contract trading protocols.
3/26/2024, 1:01:35 AM
Data Withholding and Fraud Proofing: Why Plasma Doesn’t Support Smart Contracts
Intermediate

Data Withholding and Fraud Proofing: Why Plasma Doesn’t Support Smart Contracts

This article starts with the issue of DA and data withholding, and explores the reasons why Plasma has been buried for so long.
1/6/2024, 7:08:27 AM
What is trend trading?
Intermediate

What is trend trading?

1.This “Gate Learn Futures” Intermediate course introduces concepts and the use of various technical indicators, including Candlestick charts, technical patterns, moving averages and trend lines. 2.Learn about trend-related concepts. We elaborate on the classification of short-term, medium-term, and long-term trends, and the relationship between trends and transactions.
4/6/2023, 10:34:47 AM
How to Use Moving Average Patterns - Moving Average Bonding, Convergence and Divergence
Intermediate

How to Use Moving Average Patterns - Moving Average Bonding, Convergence and Divergence

This “Gate Learn Futures” Intermediate course introduces concepts and the use of various technical indicators, including Candlestick charts, technical patterns, moving averages, and trend lines. This article expands on the application skills of moving averages arranged in various patterns, including bonding, converging, and diverging. We will concentrate on definitions, pattern recognition, implications, and practical application of these three MA patterns.
2/21/2023, 4:57:02 PM
How to use Moving Average Patterns - Moving Average Cross
Intermediate

How to use Moving Average Patterns - Moving Average Cross

This “Gate Learn Futures” Intermediate course introduces concepts and the use of various technical indicators, including Candlestick charts, technical patterns, moving averages, and trend lines. In this guide, we place a strong emphasis on the application of moving average crosses, mainly including the golden cross and death cross.
2/21/2023, 4:47:46 PM
Application of Moving Average Array - Short Pattern
Intermediate

Application of Moving Average Array - Short Pattern

This Gate Learn Futures Intermediate course introduces concepts and uses of various technical indicators, including Candlestick charts, technical patterns, moving averages, and trend lines. This section introduces the application skills of moving averages, especially how to use the short-moving average array with lines of short-term, medium-term, and long-term to predict the market trends in trading.
2/21/2023, 4:38:34 PM
Application of Moving Average Array - Long Pattern
Intermediate

Application of Moving Average Array - Long Pattern

This Gate Learn Futures Intermediate course introduces concepts and uses of various technical indicators, including Candlestick charts, technical patterns, moving averages, and trend lines. This section introduces the application skills of moving averages, especially how to use the long moving average array with lines of short-term, medium-term, and long-term to predict the market trends in trading.
2/21/2023, 4:25:21 PM

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