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Commentary on funding rates, basis and perpetual futures market structure from the VectorTraders desk.

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Funding Rate Arbitrage: The Complete Strategy Guide

What Is Funding Rate Arbitrage? Funding rate arbitrage is a market-neutral strategy that earns the periodic payment exchanged between long and short holders of Super Admin · Aug 8, 2026 · 15 min read Read article →

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Running a Funding-Capture Position: The Work Between Entry and Exit

A delta-neutral funding position looks like a set-and-forget trade: buy spot, short the perpetual, collect funding. In p...

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Yield-Bearing Stablecoins and Tokenized Funds: The Wrapper Is Not the Yield

Products offering dollar-denominated yield on-chain come in four main containers: tokenized money market and treasury fu...

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What Execution Really Costs: Spread, Slippage and Fees

The cost of entering a position is not the fee on the schedule. It is four separate costs: the bid-ask spread you cross,...

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Collateral on the Short Leg: The Risk a Hedge Does Not Remove

A delta-neutral position holds the asset in spot and an offsetting short in a perpetual futures contract, so price movem...

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Crypto Yield Due Diligence: What to Ask, in What Order

Evaluating a crypto yield product means answering five questions in sequence: what produces the return, who holds the as...

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Crypto Futures in the UK: What's Available, and to Whom

UK retail clients cannot buy crypto derivatives. The Financial Conduct Authority prohibited the sale, marketing and dist...

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Why an Annualised Funding Rate Is Not a Return

A funding rate is quoted per settlement interval — typically per eight hours. Annualising it means multiplying by the nu...

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"Not Your Keys, Not Your Coins": What the Phrase Gets Right, and Where It Stops

The phrase means that if someone else controls the private keys to a crypto asset, you do not control the asset — you ho...

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Crypto Portfolio Allocation: Where a Market-Neutral Strategy Fits

Most crypto portfolios hold one exposure expressed several ways. A single common factor explains the large majority of p...