The Crypto Futures Glossary
Futures trading has its own vocabulary, and misunderstanding a single term can cost real money. Every definition here is written in plain English with the practical context you need at the trading terminal, not just a dictionary line. Each term links to related concepts so you can follow the thread.
- ADL (Auto-Deleveraging)
- Breakout
- Candlestick
- Copy Trading
- Cross Margin
- Day Trading
- Drawdown
- Fakeout
- Funding Rate
- Hedging
- Index Price
- Insurance Fund
- Isolated Margin
- Leverage
- Limit Order
- Liquidation
- Liquidity
- Long
- Maintenance Margin
- Maker
- Margin
- Mark Price
- Market Order
- Open Interest
- Order Book
- Perpetual Futures
- Position Size
- Resistance
- Risk Management
- Risk Reward Ratio
- Scalping
- Short
- Slippage
- Spread
- Stop Loss
- Support
- Swing Trading
- Take Profit
- Taker
- USDT-Margined Contract
- Volume
- Wick