Quote from: Oshosondy on August 20, 2025, 09:26:13 AM

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?

I don’t actually know the difference between the two types of trading; I only know about future trading and spot trading. I don’t know anything about perpetual trading. My main thought is usually that they are the same thing, except that some exchanges decide to use the word “perpetual” instead of “future trading.”

Sometimes, I do prefer to trade futures instead of spot if I am too confident about the trade I am about to do; I will prefer to trade in the future with little leverage, like 20x, so as to know my fate within a short period of time instead of buying to hold the coin.
The only coin I do confidently hold is Bitcoin; I do only trade some for short-term profit's sake.