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When I started this journey, I thought I was just learning definitions. “What is blockchain?”“What is a wallet?”“What is a perp?”“Anong meaning ng volatility?” I didn’t expect that by Day 50, I’d be learning like a researcher, observing like a trader, and thinking like someone who finally understands the rhythm behind the charts. The last…

Somewhere between studying funding, volatility, liquidations, IV, and the Greeks…I realised something important about myself: I learn faster when I’m actually onchain. For weeks I thought the concepts were hard because they were “advanced.”But eventually I noticed the real problem, I was trying to understand behaviour without experiencing it. That changed when I started practicing…

One quiet skill I’ve learned in derivatives research is this: some metrics describe what already happened… but Implied Volatility (IV) reveals what people expect to happen next. It’s like trading with one ear pressed against the future. Today, I finally understood why IV is one of the most respected, and most misunderstood, metrics in options…

One thing I quickly learned working in derivatives research is this:when the market moves suddenly, it’s rarely just price…it’s liquidations. If volatility is the market’s mood, and funding rate is the tug-of-war between traders, then liquidations are the moment the rope snaps and people start falling one by one. Liquidations explain the dramatic moves that…

One funny thing about working in derivatives research is that you start noticing tiny things that normal traders ignore… and yet those tiny things control the entire perp market. Funding rate is one of those tiny-but-powerful metrics. When I first heard it, I thought it sounded like something only quants cared about, like a math…

When I started this 100 Days of Crypto journey, all I wanted was to understand the basics.Wallets. Bridges. Gas fees.Just enough so I could survive conversations without smiling and pretending I knew what was going on. Then life took a turn. I unexpectedly landed a role in derivatives research, a space I never imagined myself…

After connecting perps and options yesterday, the “now” behaviour and the “later” behaviour, I woke up still thinking about one question: “But what decides the mood of the market itself?” Because honestly, the market can be dramatic. Some days it sprints like it drank a triple espresso.Some days it moves like it’s half-asleep.Some days it…

Something clicked in my brain today, the kind of small discovery that feels like you quietly unlocked a new level. It happened while I was reviewing my notes on perpetuals and options from my last two posts, trying to understand why they still felt like two different worlds even after breaking them down separately. Then…

The quieter cousin of perpetual futures, and the one that teaches you patience. In Day 40, we talked about perpetual futures, the “no-expiry” contracts that let you bet on price without owning the coin. Perps are loud, fast, emotional, and sometimes overwhelming, especially when leverage enters the picture. Today, we step into something a little…