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Re: Any good reason you prefer perpetual to future?
by
bettercrypto
on 26/08/2025, 14:18:49 UTC
Trading perpetual and future are different. Exchanges are calling all of them future market which can be confusing.

Did you know that both market are not the same, although they mean the same thing with the exception of the funding rate that makes them different. I think many traders does not even know their differences but they are only trading perpetual.

What makes you as a trader prefer perpetual derivative to future derivative? Or you even do not know they are not the same?

In my opinion, perpetual and futures are the same. If you place the wrong position, your funds get burned, and if it's correct, you get a profit. Simple logic, right?
We only differ in how we set up our indicators, execute our analysis, and so on.

They may have different terms, but their execution is the same once we have our final analysis for a trading activity, whether we take a long or short position and set our TP
(Take Profit) and SL (Stop Loss) as traders.