Tickr

Global markets, on your clock.

Commodities, equities, pre-IPO, forex, crypto, and more.

Tickr. Coming soon.

It's been a rough week for leveraged traders.

Since the US midterms, roughly $3.5 billion in crypto positions have been liquidated from Nov 4–12. Today, @WatcherGuru reported another $500 million wiped out in a single hour.

And it's not just crypto. Stock and commodity perps have seen over $72 million in liquidations in the past 24 hours, including positions linked to Nvidia, SOXL, and gold.

Different markets, same lesson: getting the direction right is only half the battle. Managing your leverage and risk is what keeps you in the game.

Here are 5 trading lessons worth remembering before your next perp trade.

Which one have you learned the hard way?

A chart like this is hard to forget.

Think you know the ticker? 👀

Drop your guess below. Let's see who gets it right.

A stock doesn't have to be tokenized for you to trade its price onchain.

With stock perps, you can go long or short without owning the underlying shares, even when traditional markets are closed.

Bringing real-world markets onchain isn't just about tokenizing assets. It's also about giving people more ways to trade, around the clock.

20 out of 20. That's how often onchain oil perps got the direction of Monday's futures reopen right.

Dune studied 30 weekend closures this year. In all 20 cases where the onchain WTI perp moved more than 1%, its direction matched the futures reopening.

It's a small sample, but it raises an interesting question:

If prices are already being discovered over the weekend, why should traders have to wait until Monday?