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OKX
Introducing OKX Snowball: a new opportunity to gain risk-adjusted rewards
Snowball is OKX's newest structured financial product that users can purchase to increase their risk-adjusted rewards. If this sounds complicated, don't fret, our guide to what is OKX snowball will help you navigate through the volatile space of cryptocurrencies.
Apr 25, 2024
Beginners
Strategies
5 essential tools for navigating a bear market
During a bear market or crypto winter, the volume of FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) can rise, spreading negativity across the space. Although caution is wise during a bear market, you may discover opportunities worth exploring. For example, the possibility of acquiring cryptocurrencies that were previously unattainable during a bullish period. A bearish drop in price could put an asset in reach and lead you to consider adding them to your portfolio.
Feb 4, 2025
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Strategies
What is a cryptocurrency trading pair?
A cryptocurrency trading pair consists of two cryptocurrencies, such as BTC/USDT, where BTC is the base currency and USDT is the quote currency. Using BTC/USDT as an example, you can: Buy BTC with USDT (also known as a buy order in spot trading)
Feb 19, 2025
Beginners
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Strategies
Beginner's guide to cryptocurrency day trading: Tips and strategies
The cryptocurrency market has matured in recent years to become increasingly sophisticated by introducing highly liquid derivatives (i.e., futures, swaps and options). Add to this the fact that we now have access to more data and market research than ever before, and it makes sense why crypto trading is growing in popularity.
Feb 24, 2025
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DeFi
Altcoin
How to stake Solana and earn rewards
Solana is a proof-of-stake blockchain known for its sub-second transaction processing and low fees. The scalability advantages of Solana have helped foster its growth in the decentralized finance ecosystem. To encourage wider participation in the ecosystem, wallet providers are offering Solana staking options.
Feb 26, 2025
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Strategies
What are trailing stop orders?
A trailing stop order is an order type that helps you to maximize and protect gains made on an open position. It's an advanced form of stop order that automatically deploys an order at a predefined point above or below the current price.
Feb 27, 2025
Beginners
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OKX
Strategies
How to block trade cryptocurrency on OKX's Liquid Marketplace
Among the cutting-edge products and services offered on OKX is block trading, which is available on our Liquid Marketplace. Block trading enables users to enter or exit significant cryptocurrency positions without risking price slippage. OKX’s Liquid Marketplace allows you to block trade various instruments supported on the exchange and deploy more advanced multileg trading strategies.
Dec 9, 2024
Intermediate
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Strategies
What are trigger orders?
A trigger order is an order that allows the trader to set a target price that must be reached before a limit or market order will be executed. For perpetual swaps and futures contracts, you'll be able to choose to trigger using either the last, mark or index price.
Jul 16, 2024
Beginners
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Strategies
What are market and limit orders?
Market orders and limit orders allow you to open positions when trading crypto under certain specific conditions. More specifically, they allow you to either open a position immediately — as with a market order — or at a specific desired price — as with a limit order. As such, these two order types are essential for beginner traders to understand.
Sep 5, 2024
Beginners
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Research
What is a deflationary currency and how does deflation affect price?
One of the most common questions we get asked is: is crypto a good store of value? To answer this question, you need to understand how the crypto world operates when compared to the fiat world. The global economy is indeed an inflation-based model, where the amount of printed money is intentionally increased every year to make it decrease in value. Therefore, people are more incentivized to spend it now than save it for later, contributing to a spending economy with free-flowing cash.
Apr 17, 2025
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Technical analysis
Crypto technical analysis: your essential guide to reading crypto data
Though technical analysis in the cryptocurrency market might seem daunting, the term simply refers to the study of past market data in an effort to project future price movements. In essence, it allow
Apr 22, 2025
Beginners
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Trading basics
Derivatives
Trading guide
Forward contracts vs expiry futures: what are the differences?
Expiry futures are actively used within the crypto space and have become a tool in many trader's arsenal. Expiry futures are derivatives, meaning their value is derived from the price of the underlying assets. So, if you buy a Bitcoin futures contract, you're not taking possession of it but speculating on its price fluctuation.
Feb 26, 2025
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Trading tools
Trading guide
Trading basics
DCA trading bot: How to mitigate risk by dollar-cost averaging
Cryptocurrencies have become increasingly popular, drawing more traders to platforms such as OKX in pursuit of higher growth. However, the inherent risks in trading cryptocurrencies, including volatil
Apr 28, 2025
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Options
What is calendar call spread?
Call calendar spread trading is an options trading strategy that seeks to lock in gains from the changing prices over time of two options contracts with different expiry dates. Call calendar spreads are formed when a trader buys or sells a longer-dated call contract and takes the opposite position in a shorter-dated contract with the same strike price at the same time. Call calendar spreads are sometimes known as time-spreads or horizontal spreads. They become more lucrative as expiration approaches because of the time decay from both option contracts.
Apr 25, 2025
Intermediate

Strategies
Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO): What is it, and how does it affect the market?
The crypto market is considered the most volatile in the broader financial industry. The prices of coins and tokens are known to experience dramatic changes. This presents an excellent opportunity for experienced traders who can analyze markets quickly and react in time. However, novice traders sometimes make the mistake of entering the market too late.
Apr 24, 2025
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Strategies
Fixed-term deals, flexible-term deals and flash deals - How are they different?
Staking cryptocurrency can be a great way to both diversify your portfolio and grow the tokens you hold. But with so many different options to choose from, figuring out which is best for you can be ov
Apr 25, 2024
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