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Options
Strategies
What is a straddle option strategy: understanding the long straddle option
Like its counterpart the strangle , the straddle option strategy is hugely popular among crypto options traders because of its neutrality that allows traders to lock in gains from significant price movements, regardless of the direction. Ultimately, this strategy is ideal if you’re expecting a big move in the market but are uncertain whether it will be upward or downward.
Feb 27, 2025
Advanced

Strategies
Block trading explained: avoiding slippage with privately negotiated trades
A block trade is a privately negotiated purchase or sale of large blocks of assets settled over the counter. Block trades are useful for buying or selling vast numbers of shares, derivatives, bonds or cryptocurrencies without slippage affecting an asset’s market price.
Apr 25, 2025
Beginners
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Strategies
Transaction types explained: spot, options, and more
Cryptocurrency trading can be intimidating for beginners. But, once you understand the different types of trades and how each works, you'll be better equipped to make sounder trading decisions. This article explains the most common transaction types available today.
Jun 21, 2024
Beginners
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OKX
Trading
Introducing OKX Copy Trading
OKX is excited to introduce Copy Trading, a new tool under OKX Social Trading that gives you a whole new trading experience. With OKX Copy Trading, you’ll be able to share your best trading strategies for a profit, or learn and copy trade with 600+ trading pairs from pro traders around the world.
Jul 15, 2024
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Trading
Trading basics
Trading guide
How to set up an OKX Signal Trading bot with TradingView
Try Signal Trading on OKX Signal Trading is now available on OKX, enabling you to create your own signal trading bot and execute real trades. Experience the full potential of automated trading, get started and elevate your trading strategies today.
Jul 16, 2024
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Strategies
Top 8 demo trading platforms: Essential guide for crypto traders
What's the best way to get started with crypto trading? For many, demo trading is the answer. The tool sees trading platforms provide a practice environment for you to build your skills. Here, you can simulate trading activities without risking real money. The concept is available across various financial markets, including cryptocurrencies.
Jul 16, 2024
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Trading
Strategies
Copy trading explained: analyzing the tactic's advantages and limitations
Keen to learn how to start trading cryptocurrencies but are afraid to take that first step? We don't blame you — it can seem daunting given the ever-changing volatility of crypto market trends and the complexity of technical analysis. Fortunately, there's a beginner-friendly way crypto traders can tap into the expertise of experienced crypto traders and make use of their proven trading strategies to navigate the crypto market.
Aug 5, 2024
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Strategies
How to hedge with options: a guide to crypto options hedging
Did you know more than eighty percent of option contracts expire worthless? That’s because options are financial instruments that are mostly used as insurance policies to hedge positions that are too large to unwind. Crypto options hedging effectively provides the best of both worlds, since hedging allows downside mitigation risk while maintaining overall conviction for a specific crypto holding or trade.
Sep 13, 2024
Beginners
Spot trading guide
Technical analysis
Strategies
Stick to the plan: building a disciplined trading strategy
Crypto trading can be an exciting and potentially lucrative venture, but it's also risky — especially if you rush in blindly without a plan. A solid crypto trading strategy is crucial to success in this market. A trading strategy provides a clear action plan and helps to set boundaries that support one crucial trait for all traders to possess: discipline.
Sep 24, 2024
Beginners
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Bitcoin
Options
Delta neutral options strategies: how to hedge a crypto portfolio
If you're familiar with long-term crypto trading, chances are you'll likely encounter instances when an ongoing catalyst causes huge portfolio volatility for your crypto holdings. While this might be acceptable for crypto traders who are more risk-tolerant, it can sometimes lead to dire situations like margin calls because of how volatility can propel a portfolio into liquidation.
Sep 24, 2024

Strategies
When would my order be liquidated?
In a unified account, the margin level determines when a position is liquidated. When the margin level of an open position falls below 100%, the position will be partially or fully closed. A common misconception is that traders might assume liquidation will occur when the margin level falls to 0%. This is not the case. When the margin level falls below 100%, the position will be liquidated in part or in full, and we'll collect a liquidation clearance fee that will be added to the OKX insurance fund.
Sep 27, 2024
Intermediate

Trading tools
Trading basics
Spot trading guide
DCA trading bot: how to start dollar-cost averaging (DCA)
Kick start your understanding of dollar-cost averaging (DCA) by watching this video on the OKX DCA Crypto Trading Bot . Here’s how our latest trading bot allows you to fine tune your dollar-cost averaging (DCA) strategy.
Sep 24, 2024
Intermediate
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Order Types
Strategies
Crypto covered calls explained: how to hedge while HODLing
Cryptocurrency enthusiasts often find themselves in a dilemma — they want to HODL their digital assets for the long haul and find a way to protect their positions from market volatility. While HODLing can be a sound long-term strategy, it doesn't shield you from market downturns. This is where the covered call options strategy can provide some form of crypto portfolio protection over time.
Aug 29, 2024
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Strategies
What is a unified account?
A unified account is a groundbreaking all-in-one account crafted by OKX to empower you with streamlined, simultaneous trading strategies across spot markets and derivatives like perpetual swaps, futures, and options. Beyond simplifying trades, it paves the way for enhanced capital efficiency across various account modes — margin free, single-currency margin, multi-currency margin, and portfolio margin — all without the trouble of transferring funds between multiple accounts.With a unified account, you can:
Jul 16, 2024
Intermediate

Strategies
Futures
What are the index price and mark price of margined contracts?
Understanding the mark price and index price of a crypto asset can be influential to a trader's success. Knowing each forms part of your risk management approach , provides greater transparency to asset values, and can support more informed and effective trading in general. As such, whether you're a crypto native or a beginner crypto trader, the ability to calculate the index and mark price is an important skill — particularly when it comes to more complex forms of trading, such as futures.
Sep 18, 2024
Intermediate
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Bitcoin
Trading tools
Derivatives
Bitcoin derivatives, explained: expiry futures, perpetual futures and options
Derivatives are tradable contracts that derive their value from an underlying asset. In the case of cryptocurrency derivatives, the underlying asset is, in most cases, Bitcoin (BTC), or other top cryptocurrencies.
Oct 28, 2024
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Strategies
What is mark price?
Effective and well-informed risk management should be a priority for all crypto traders, particularly those who adopt higher-risk methods such as margin trading. Various risk management tactics are out there today, and one of them is to look at mark price. The mark price can offer a more accurate reflection of the true value of a derivative, and is used by traders to avoid unexpected forced liquidations.
Dec 9, 2024
Beginners
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