Practical guides for traders — orderbooks, multi-exchange workflows, and honest tool comparisons. Written by the people building the terminal.
From an empty wallet to a position with a stop attached: deposit USDC, read the market, pick the right order, and what each step costs.
Thirteen terminals side by side: charts, order types, platforms, sign-in and custody. Ours included, held to the same standard.
The current hourly funding rate on every Hyperliquid perpetual, with APR and open interest, and how Hyperliquid funding is calculated.
Open interest for every Hyperliquid perpetual, ranked, with each market's share of the total, volume against open interest, funding and leverage.
Every way in — browser wallet, Google or email — and what the one signature actually authorises. No seed phrase, no private key to paste, and a trading key that can never withdraw.
One Phantom, Backpack or Solflare signature authorises a trading-only key and the builder code together. Covers the wallet list and the errors worth recognising.
USDC on Arbitrum One, 5 minimum, credited in a minute — and why a brand-new wallet must deposit before it can authorise anything at all.
One chart, one saved layout, two indicators, 5,000 bars — which limit bites first, what no tier gives a crypto trader, and where TradingView is still the right tool.
TradingView keeps seconds charts for its Plus plan and up. Where to get 1s to 30s candles free, how they are built, and one real BTC minute where a single second did a third of the trading.
0.045% to take, 0.015% to make, six volume tiers, and the 0.01% builder fee that pays for this terminal — itemised on a real fill, with the venue's own numbers.
Builder fees for 24 wallets and terminals, measured from Hyperliquid's own fills: MetaMask and Trust Wallet add 0.1%, the terminals 0.01–0.015%. WatchCrypto's is 0.01%.
BTC 40x, ETH 25x, SOL and XRP 20x, 3x to 10x for the rest: every limit, the margin tiers that cut it on huge positions, and how maintenance margin follows.
Fees, funding, leverage and listings compared: Lighter's zero-fee Standard account against Hyperliquid's 0.045% taker, 50x against 40x, and what the catch is.
A Solana-settled perps exchange with USDC margin: how it matches orders, 0 bps maker fees, 40x on BTC, and who is barred from using it.
Price and 24-hour volume alerts on every exchange we stream, sent as a notification or email with the tab closed: how they fire, and the limits.
Liquidation price, profit and loss, fees by volume tier and funding cost for any Hyperliquid perpetual, with live prices and maximum leverage.
Why funding exists, what leverage really changes (not your profit — your runway), how liquidation works, and cross versus isolated margin.
Placing the order, where a short's stop goes, why the loss is unbounded, and how funding and short squeezes actually behave.
Cryptowatch shut down in 2023. We tested the real alternatives for multi-exchange crypto charting — WatchCrypto, TradingView, Coinglass, Aggr, and Kraken Pro — with honest tradeoffs for each.
A practical guide to multi-exchange crypto trading: why cross-venue price differences matter, and how to set up one workspace with charts, orderbooks, and trade tape from seven exchanges.
A practical guide to reading crypto orderbooks: bids, asks, spread, market depth, cumulative walls, spoofing traps, and how to confirm the book against the trade tape.
Aggressor side, sweeps, absorption and repeated prints, and how to filter a fast tape down to the trades that matter. Free on every market.
Cumulative bids and asks, the mid line, walls, imbalance, and how to estimate the cost of a big order from the curves. Free on every market.
What CVD is, how the pane is built, how to read it against price, and why spot and perp CVD can disagree. Free on every chart.
Migrating from Cryptowatch? A feature-by-feature map to WatchCrypto: boards to layouts, alerts, orderbooks, trading, and the honest gaps — plus a five-minute setup to get your workspace back.
Sign in with a wallet, Google or email — no API key needed. Two signatures, funding from Arbitrum USDC, and the errors a new account hits.
Market and limit orders from the dock, leverage, and reduce-only take-profit / stop-loss on any position.