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Perpetuals

Learn perps. Check your trades. Read the market.

Perpetual futures let you trade price movements without owning the asset, with no fixed expiry date.

Learn how perpetual futures work, check your risk before you trade and see where leverage is building across crypto, stocks, indices and commodities.

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Chapter 1 is free.

Use our perp tools

Check a trade, liquidation risk, funding and more.

See live perp data

Track funding, open interest and crowded markets.

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Open the Perp Market Radar

See where leverage is building and which perp markets are getting crowded.

Set a market alert

Get an email when one of these crosses a level you set.

Crowd Gauge

Bitcoin, Ether, Solana and the other crypto perps.

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Piling in

Crypto perps

How crowded are the crypto perps right now?

See how traders are positioned, what they're paying in funding and which side is more exposed to liquidation.

Longs pay 10% a year to stay in. On Bitcoin and Ether, $2.23B of buyers are close to being forced out by a small move, against $771M on the other side.

Across 7 markets, weighted by the value of open positions.

How the gauge is builtPost on X
Learn

Want to become a better perp trader?

Learn to spot trading opportunities, plan your entries and exits, and manage your risk. Watch Chapter 1 free, then get lifetime access when you enroll.

Perpetuals course

Perpetuals Masterclass

New to perps or ready to improve? Learn how experienced traders read the market, find repeatable setups and manage trades from entry to exit.

  • Learn technical analysis, spot liquidity zones and understand how leverage moves markets.
  • Calculate position sizes, place stops and take profits in stages.
  • Understand trading psychology and use your journal to spot mistakes and improve your trading habits.

$147chapter 1 freelifetime access

14 day refund. No questions asked.

Tools

What would you like to check?

Planning a trade, managing a position or looking for market opportunities? Choose a section below to find the tools and live data that can help.

Plan the trade. Monitor the position. Read the market.

Live perp markets

See where leverage is building right now.

Track funding, open interest and squeeze risk across crypto and global perp markets. Updated every 15 minutes.

Open the Perp Market Radar

Market heat

A quick read on where leverage is building across crypto and global perp markets. See which markets are getting crowded, where funding is stretched and where a sharp move could trigger liquidations.

Highest funding rates

  • GOLD+33%/yr
  • AAPL-18%/yr
  • HYPE+11%/yr

Positive funding means longs are paying shorts. Negative funding means shorts are paying longs. The further it moves from zero, the more one sided positioning may be.

Yearly figures assume the current funding rate stays unchanged. Rates can change.

Market positioning

BTCLow Activity
ETHLow Activity

Combines price and open interest to show whether leverage is building, unwinding or staying quiet.

Squeeze risk watch

Crude oil (WTI) commodity perp 27 Moderate

Highlights the market with the highest current squeeze risk.

Some signals need a few hours of data before they are ready. They show up here on their own. Funding data is already live.

See where leverage is building

Updated Oct 23, 7:00 PM UTC

Learn how funding and open interest shape risk

Educational only. Not financial advice. Perps can lose you money fast and are not for everyone.

Perpetual Futures terms explained

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