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Spot and futures trading, exchange integrations and crypto-specific journaling.

Understanding Stablecoins: What Your Choice Means for Risk
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Understanding Stablecoins: What Your Choice Means for Risk

A stablecoin is an issuer's promise, not a law of nature. How the three constructions work, which five questions to ask, and why settlement currency must not change mid year.

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Securing Your Crypto Account: API Keys, 2FA and Withdrawal Allowlists
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Securing Your Crypto Account: API Keys, 2FA and Withdrawal Allowlists

The strongest lever is the permission on your API keys, not your password. Which rights a journal actually needs, which two factor method withstands a fake login page, and the order to respond in.

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Funding Rates Explained: The Real Cost of Perpetual Futures
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Funding Rates Explained: The Real Cost of Perpetual Futures

A funding rate is a payment between longs and shorts, not an exchange fee. How it works, why it grows with holding time, and why it needs its own column in your journal.

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Trading Crypto Volatility: Adjusting Position Size and Stops
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Trading Crypto Volatility: Adjusting Position Size and Stops

Volatility is not traded, it is accounted for. Why crypto markets swing more structurally, how to measure your pair's daily range, and what position size follows at unchanged risk.

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Crypto Futures vs Spot: What It Means for Your Trading Journal
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Crypto Futures vs Spot: What It Means for Your Trading Journal

In spot you buy the asset, in futures a contract on its price. From that follow liquidation, funding costs and margin mode, four extra journal fields, and the rule to review the two separately.

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Connecting the Bitget API: Automatic Crypto Trade Sync
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Connecting the Bitget API: Automatic Crypto Trade Sync

Create a read only Bitget API key, enter key, secret and passphrase in your journal, and sync trades automatically. A step by step guide including the four most common setup mistakes.

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Crypto Trading Journal: What Is Different From Stocks
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Crypto Trading Journal: What Is Different From Stocks

A crypto trading journal needs the same core fields as a stock journal, but it must handle four differences: continuous trading, multiple exchanges and wallets, a moving accounting currency, and costs split across many small components.

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