Every post tagged Market Mechanics.
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Open interest, funding, basis and liquidation figures each count something narrower than they appear to. A reference guide to what derivatives data measures and how it misleads, read through three days of ether between 2021 and 2022.
Discover the intricacies of market setups as we delve into the "Spring and Reclaim" strategy, a meticulously tested approach that reveals how price negotiations within ranges can lead to potential upward movements, applying precise rules across various assets and timeframes.
Discover how to harness Fibonacci tools effectively by correctly anchoring your drawings and understanding the market's underlying mechanics, ensuring your analyses are precise and actionable.
This new series transforms esoteric trading concepts into practical tools and setups, helping you understand market mechanics and apply them effectively on your trading charts.
Discover how derivatives leverage simple contracts into complex financial tools, allowing traders to navigate markets with precision, take positions without owning the underlying assets, and even trade on price movements during off-hours—all while challenging traditional price agreements.
Valeon's journey from a chaotic idea archive to a deeply personal exploration of thought illustrates how writing not only organizes a mind but also serves as a record of evolving understanding, revealing the intertwining of questions, assumptions, and the ever-expanding frontier of knowledge.
Markets speak their own language — full of ratios, Greeks, and curious words like backwardation or contango. This guide breaks down some of the most common (and misunderstood) terms used in trading and investment circles.
Markets, like minds, move not only on facts but on expectations. The self-fulfilling prophecy shows how shared beliefs turn into order flow, liquidity events, and ultimately the prices that seem to “confirm” those beliefs.
Capital size should dictate strategy. What works for a $1,000 trader becomes reckless at $10M. The recent $17M loss on Hyperliquid shows how fragile structures — high leverage, linear contracts, and concentration — turn conviction into catastrophe. This essay breaks down why efficiency, not ego, defines survivability, and how inverse contracts, venue distribution, and leverage discipline transform outcomes.
About half of US share volume now trades away from the exchanges, in dark pools, wholesalers and dealer platforms, and reaches the tape only as prints after the fact. Where trades happen, how they're reported, what your chart's volume leaves out, who sees what first, and two dark pools that didn't work as advertised.
