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Stop-loss and take-profit trigger at a set price. Stop-limit adds a price bound so a triggered order does not fill at any price available. Trailing stops follow favourable moves at a fixed distance. Post-only guarantees maker execution or cancels. Reduce-only prevents an order from accidentally opening exposure in the opposite direction.

The total value of derivative contracts currently open. Rising open interest alongside rising price means new money is entering long. Rising price with falling open interest means shorts are covering — a weaker signal, because the buying is forced rather than chosen. The direction of the two together says more than either alone.

They describe what price has already done, in a compressed form. That has real value for consistency and for defining rules you can follow under pressure. What they do not do is predict, and most indicators are variations on the same underlying data — stacking six of them produces confidence, not information.

The gap between a futures price and spot. When futures trade at a premium, a trader can buy spot and short the future, capturing the convergence regardless of direction. The return looks like a fixed yield but is not risk-free: it requires margin on the short leg, and a sharp move can force liquidation before convergence arrives.

Open a short future against it, sized to the exposure you want neutralised. The combined position stops responding to price while the hedge is on. It costs funding when rates are positive, requires margin, and creates a second position that can be liquidated — so it is a temporary tool, not a substitute for deciding.

It mirrors a selected trader's positions in your account automatically. It suits someone who understands the instrument being traded but lacks the time to trade it, not someone using it to skip the understanding. Leaderboard rankings reward recent risk-taking, and the strategy that produced a spectacular month is often the one that ends badly.

MEXC Loans lets you post BTC, ETH, SOL or XRP as collateral and borrow USDT or USDC, so you can free capital without closing a position. Interest accrues on the borrowed amount, and the collateral is liquidated if it falls far enough — which tends to happen in exactly the conditions that made you want the liquidity.

As a slower second lens, not a signal generator. Exchange inflows and outflows, stablecoin supply, and holder concentration describe positioning that price has not expressed yet. The timeframes are wrong for intraday work — on-chain shifts play out over weeks, which makes them useful for framing bias rather than timing entries.