Perps Risk Management 101: Stop-Losses, Position Sizing, and Surviving Leverage
Risk management — not prediction — keeps perp traders alive. Master the 1% rule, stop-losses, R-multiples, and leverage sizing before your next trade.
Risk management — not prediction — keeps perp traders alive. Master the 1% rule, stop-losses, R-multiples, and leverage sizing before your next trade.
Going long profits when price rises; going short profits when price falls. Learn how shorting works, P&L mechanics, and funding costs for each side.
Crypto leverage controls a position bigger than your deposit — multiplying gains AND losses. How margin, liquidation, and safe leverage really work.
How to trade perps on Solana, step by step: fund a wallet, connect a DEX, deposit USDC, set leverage and a stop-loss, and place your first trade safely.
Adrena offers up to 100x leverage via a zero-slippage pool model with dual-token revenue share. BULK Exchange is a 5–20ms L0 CLOB with portfolio margin and 2.2–3.5 bps fees. Tiny TVL vs growing pre-deposits, and very different architectures for different traders.
Flash Trade offers the highest leverage on Solana at up to 500x via a pool-to-peer model with Flash Beasts NFT rewards. BULK Exchange is a 5–20ms L0 CLOB with portfolio margin and 2.2–3.5 bps fees. The comparison is extreme leverage vs. institutional execution quality.
1M AURA distributes every week. Formula: USDC deposited × time held. Every Saturday you're not in is AURA you can't recover.
Minimum $10 · Withdrawable anytime · Converts to trading margin at mainnet