Crypto Trading Guides
Plain-language guides to crypto trading, exchange registration, and how to protect your money.
What Is Crypto Trading?
The crypto market explained simply. What trading pairs are, how spot and derivatives trades work, who the participants are, and whether retail traders can actually make money.
How to Verify an Exchange's Registration
Step-by-step: how to look up an exchange's legal entity on the FinCEN MSB, FCA cryptoasset, MiCA CASP, NYDFS, and MAS registers. Includes what each field means and red flags.
Crypto Leverage Explained
What 1:2, 1:10, and 1:25 leverage actually mean on crypto derivatives. How liquidation works. Why the same trade can make or lose many times as much depending on your leverage.
Minimum Deposit Compared
Which exchanges let you start with $0 or a few dollars, and what you get at each level. How minimum deposit and funding methods affect which accounts and features you can access.
Maker/Taker Fees Explained
What the bid/ask spread and maker/taker fees cost per trade, why order-book trading beats instant-buy widgets, and how to compare exchanges by their true trading cost.
What Is a Funding Rate?
How perpetual futures funding works, when it is charged, and how to calculate the funding you pay or receive when holding a leveraged position.
Order Book vs Broker Model
How order-book exchanges differ from brokerage-style buy widgets, which is cheaper, the conflict-of-interest difference, and how to tell which model a platform uses.
FinCEN vs MiCA vs NYDFS — What Each Covers
A comparison of the main crypto frameworks: what each registration actually protects, custody rules, leverage limits, and what happens to your funds if an exchange fails.