Futures Trading
16 tutorials
How Do You Stress Test a Binance Futures Position? Calculating Position Risk
Run a stress test before opening a futures position, simulating how your account holds up under different adverse price swings. This article walks through 5 typical scenarios and the calculation tools you'll need.
How to Check Binance Futures Funding Rate History (and Predict the Next One)
Funding rates settle every 8 hours, and historical data can help you predict which direction the next one will go. This article covers how to look it up on Binance, pull it via API, and analyze it.
How Do Binance Futures and Spot Trading Differ for Taxes?
How futures gains and spot gains are treated can differ significantly across tax jurisdictions. This article covers how a few major markets commonly handle it.
How Do You Apply for Binance Futures Fee Discounts and Rebates?
Binance futures fee discounts mainly come from BNB deduction (10% off), referral rebates (up to 20% back), and VIP tiers. Stacked together, a retail trader can bring the rate down from 0.05% to roughly 0.036%.
Where's the Binance Futures Demo Account? Practice Without Risking Real Money
Binance offers a futures demo trading feature that starts you off with 100,000 USDT in simulated funds, using market data and trading mechanics identical to live trading. Beginners should practice in demo mode for 1-2 months before opening real futures positions.
Binance Perpetual vs Delivery Futures: 3 Key Differences
Perpetual futures have no expiry date and stay anchored to spot through the funding rate; delivery futures have a fixed expiry date and settle at the settlement price. Perpetual is flexible, delivery saves on funding costs — beginners should stick with perpetual.
USDⓈ-M vs COIN-M Binance Futures: What's the Difference, and Which Is Simpler?
USDⓈ-M futures use USDT as margin, with profit and loss priced directly in dollars, making them beginner-friendly. COIN-M futures use BTC/ETH as margin, suiting long-term coin holders who want to hedge, with PnL affected by the coin's own price swings.
Can You Keep Trading Binance Futures After Liquidation? Does It Ban Your Account?
Liquidation only wipes out the margin in that one position — it doesn't ban your account. Top up again and you can trade right away. But it's smart to take at least a week to cool off and review what went wrong before jumping back in.
What Is the Funding Rate on Binance Futures? How Does the Every-8-Hours Charge Work?
The funding rate is a fee that longs and shorts pay each other on perpetual futures, keeping the perpetual price anchored to spot. Binance settles it every 8 hours — a positive rate means longs pay shorts, and a negative rate means the reverse.
How Do You Go Long or Short on Binance Futures? How Do You Close a Wrong Position?
Betting on a rise is called going Long, betting on a drop is called going Short. On the futures page, the green Buy button opens a long, the red Sell button opens a short. If you picked the wrong direction, just tap the opposite button to close it — the system automatically recognizes it as closing your existing position rather than opening a new one in the opposite direction.
How Much Leverage Should Beginners Use on Binance Futures? Starting at 3x Is Safer
Beginners should only use 3x leverage in their first month, move up to 5x in months two and three, and only consider 10x after three months. Never go above 20x, and always keep any single position under 10% of your total capital.
How Are Binance Futures Fees Calculated? Maker/Taker and Funding Rate Explained
Binance USDⓈ-M futures charge 0.02% Maker and 0.05% Taker, plus a funding rate settlement every 8 hours. Turning on BNB fee deduction gets you an additional 10% discount on fees.
How Is Binance Futures Margin Calculated? What's the Difference Between Isolated and Cross?
Margin = Position Value ÷ Leverage. Isolated margin uses only the margin allocated to a single position, so liquidation only affects that position; Cross margin shares your whole account balance, so liquidation wipes out your entire account. Beginners should use Isolated margin for greater safety.
What Does Liquidation Mean on Binance Futures? Which Leverage Gets Liquidated Fastest
Liquidation happens when your futures margin can no longer support your position, and it gets force-closed. At 125x leverage, just a 0.7% move against you triggers liquidation; at 10x, it takes 9%. Once liquidated, your margin drops close to zero and whatever remains is transferred to the insurance fund.
Binance Futures Leverage: What's the Difference Between 10x, 50x, and 125x?
The liquidation threshold for 10x leverage is about 9%, for 50x about 1.8%, and for 125x about 0.7%. The higher the multiplier, the more sensitive your position becomes — for beginners, 125x is basically an instant liquidation. This article gives you a real-world comparison across every leverage tier.
How Do You Open a Binance Futures Account? What's on the Quiz
Opening Binance Futures takes three steps: KYC, a risk quiz, and agreeing to the terms. The quiz has 10-15 questions, a 60-point pass mark, and mostly covers leverage, liquidation, and margin basics.