Crypto Guides & Trading Education
Free cryptocurrency guides covering everything from buying Bitcoin to advanced derivatives trading, risk management, and technical analysis.
Free Crypto Trading Education
Our guides cover every stage of the crypto trading journey — from buying your first Bitcoin to mastering advanced derivatives strategies. All content is free, ad-free, and written for the European market with a focus on EU-compliant exchanges and SEPA payment methods.
Every guide on this site is written from the perspective of someone who has been on the wrong side of the trade described. The Liquidation Cascades guide exists because cascade events have repeatedly turned profitable strategies into account-blowing losses for derivatives traders since 2019. The Stop-Loss Strategies guide exists because most beginners place their first stop where the chart 'looks like support' rather than where their account sizing actually permits. Guides are short on theory and long on the specific decision-points that determine whether a trade thesis becomes a profit or a lesson.
Getting Started
New to crypto? Start here. Learn what digital currency is, how to buy Bitcoin with EUR via SEPA transfer, how to register on an exchange, understand KYC requirements, and explore Bitcoin ETFs. These beginner guides explain everything in plain language with step-by-step instructions.
The 'Getting Started' track is the only one assumed to take less than a week of evening reading. After the four foundational guides — what Bitcoin is, how exchanges custody (or don't custody) your coins, the difference between spot and derivatives, and how to evaluate exchange security — most readers know enough to deposit a first amount they could comfortably lose, place a real spot trade, and read order-book depth without being misled by it. The next step is the Trading Guides track, which is where capital actually starts being at risk.
Trading Guides
Level up your trading skills with guides on crypto trading strategies, candlestick chart analysis, technical indicators, order types, risk management, and fee comparisons across exchanges. Learn how to spot emotional trading traps, avoid FOMO, and build a disciplined trading plan.
Trading guides progress from analysis (technical indicators, sentiment, on-chain metrics) through execution (order types, slippage, position management) to portfolio-level questions (rebalancing, profit-taking strategies, when to scale up size). The most under-read guides are the ones on profit-taking — most traders search 'how to enter' a thousand times more than 'how to exit'. Both decisions matter equally. A perfectly-timed entry with a poorly-planned exit returns less than an average entry with a disciplined exit.
Derivatives & Advanced Topics
Deep-dive into futures trading, margin trading, perpetual contracts, options, long vs short positions, isolated vs cross margin, liquidation mechanics, and hedging strategies. Understand funding rates, open interest, and how to manage leveraged positions safely.
The derivatives track assumes spot-trading proficiency and starts from the mechanics that distinguish a perpetual from a quarterly future, why funding rates exist, and what cross-margin and isolated-margin actually do to your liquidation price under stress. Later guides cover hedging open spot positions with futures, basis trades when funding rates diverge from spot, and the position-management edge cases (partial liquidations, auto-deleveraging, insurance fund coverage) that retail traders typically encounter only after losing capital to them.
How to Read These Guides
Read in order within a track. The Beginner Guides assume no crypto background and build the vocabulary needed to make sense of the Trading Guides. The Trading Guides assume a working spot account and build the strategy vocabulary needed to evaluate the Derivatives Guides. Skipping levels is possible, but readers who jump straight to 'How to use 100x leverage on Bitcoin' from no background spend weeks unlearning bad mental models that the foundational guides would have prevented.
The recommended pace is one guide per evening with a day's gap to think about the worked examples. Guides intentionally end with a 'try this on a small position' suggestion rather than 'now you know it' — none of the concepts are real until they have been used on actual capital, even at $10 size. The friction of placing a real trade with a small amount teaches what reading cannot.
From Beginner to Professional Trader
There is no single curriculum for becoming a professional trader, but there is a typical progression. Months 1-3: build the Beginner foundation, place small spot trades with money you can comfortably lose, journal every entry and exit. Months 3-6: read the Trading Guides, start sizing positions by percent-of-account rather than dollar amounts, switch from market orders to limit orders for everything non-urgent. Months 6-12: read the Derivatives Guides only if you can articulate exactly why you need leverage that spot doesn't provide; most traders who skip this gate-question end up overfunding leverage and underfunding patience.
The traders who survive the first 12 months are not necessarily the smartest — they are the ones who never let a single trade exceed 1-2% of account risk and who treat their journal as more important than their P&L. The guides reflect that prioritisation. Risk management appears in the first guide of every track, not buried after the entry strategies.