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Crypto Trading 102 - Let's talk about Spot and Futures trading.

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introductin to Crypto Trading 102

      1:07

    • 2.

      Lesson 1 - What is Spot and Futures ?

      9:43

    • 3.

      Lesson 2 - CEX overview

      4:30

    • 4.

      Lesson 3 - Trading on Kcex

      12:30

    • 5.

      Lesson 4 - Transfer funds from CEX

      2:52

    • 6.

      Lesson 5 - Trading on BingX and more.

      7:28

    • 7.

      Congratulations

      0:55

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Class Description:

Welcome to Crypto Trading 102, the next step in your trading journey. In this class, we’ll move beyond the basics and dive into the practical side of trading on centralized exchanges (CEX). If you’re ready to level up your skills and learn how traders actually place and manage orders in real platforms, this class is for you.

In this course, we’ll cover:

Spot Trading in Action — How to create and execute spot orders using exchanges like KCEX and BingX (you can use the exchange of your choice).
Futures Trading Explained — What futures are, how they work, and why traders use them.
Leverage Basics — Understanding leverage, and the difference between isolated vs cross margin orders.
Managing Long & Short Positions — Learn how traders profit when the market goes up (long) or down (short).
Transferring Assets — Step-by-step guidance on moving funds between exchanges safely.
Real Trading Examples — Watch me place live orders on KCEX and BingX so you can see the full process from start to finish.

By the end of this course, you’ll not only understand the concepts but also see how they work in real exchanges. You’ll gain the confidence to explore spot and futures trading, use leverage responsibly, and manage positions like a more advanced trader.

Whether you want to expand your knowledge or prepare for more active trading strategies, Crypto Trading 102 will give you the tools and insights to trade smarter.

DISCLAIMER AND RISK WARNING:

Trading and investing in cryptocurrencies can offer substantial potential rewards but also come with significant risks. It’s essential to be aware of these risks and to only trade with funds you can afford to lose.

The classes I provide are solely for educational and informational purposes and are not investment advisory services. Nothing in this course should be considered financial or investment advice. The information, tools, and techniques shared are intended to help you understand the cryptocurrency market but are not recommendations to buy or sell any assets, including stocks, futures, indices, forex, cryptocurrencies, or commodities. Past performance of any trading strategy or system is not necessarily indicative of future results.

Cryptocurrency investment is speculative, and the market is largely unregulated, with high volatility. Investing in coins or tokens can lead to the loss of your funds.

Meet Your Teacher

Hi, I'm Alex, the founder of Albu Academy, where we help aspiring traders unlock the world of crypto with confidence and clarity. With over a decade of trading experience since 2009 and a deep dive into crypto starting in 2016, I've seen the highs, the lows, and everything in between. My journey has taught me that successful trading goes beyond technical skills; it's about having the right mindset to execute strategies, manage risk, and stay adaptable in an ever-changing market.

Albu Academy is designed to provide a solid foundation for beginners and advanced traders alike, combining practical skills with insights into developing discipline, resilience, and a strategic approach. Join me as we break down trading fundamentals and uncover what it takes to thrive in the exci... See full profile

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1. Introductin to Crypto Trading 102: Heller one this Salix and welcome to crypto trading one or two. In this class, you will learn the differences between spot and future trading. You will understand what does the long position and short position means. We will try transferring funds from one exchange to another. And you will see the trading interfaces of two exchanges that I use, which is key sex and bank X. What is the difference and what exchange maybe you should choose for yourself for your first trait. So with that being set, let's go to our classes. And we will start with a little bit of theory explaining to you what does the futures and spot trading mean and how we can use them. With that being set, let's go to classes. And you will learn the all great things about spot and future trading there is. Thank you for joining, and I see you in our first lesson. Take care. 2. Lesson 1 - What is Spot and Futures ?: So welcome to trading one oh two. And before we dig in to the exchanges, I would like to explain to you the simple concept of what is spot and what is futures trading. Also in futures trading, we have something called short and long, and we'll have a separate slide for them as well, so you get a full understanding of what you are getting into. So let's go. So spot gals futures. What is the difference between spot trading and futures trading? Now, we are going to answer this question. So what is spot trading? Spot trading is the simplest form of trading. You use your own money to buy an asset like Bitcoin, varium or stocks or anything else. Once you buy it, you own it directly. So it becomes your property. You can do whatever you like with it. No matter if the price goes up or down, it stays in your wallet until you decide to sell it, transfer, or maybe use it. There is also usable assets like Solana, tone, and different others. Also, ferium is a usable asset. What do I mean by usable asset? It's an asset that you can use on the block chain for something. For example, with IAM and Solana, you can use them for fees. With TN, you can use it for block chain fees, or if you use telegram, and maybe you have a community there, you can use it for telegramts. So it has multiple case use, so does Etherium and sola. Depends what you're planning to do with it. For most people, those are pretty advanced functions and you will not be using them at all, but I just giving you an information so that you know that there is also usable assets. What is the benefits of spot trading? First of all, the full ownership of your asset. You can do whatever you like with it, no matter the price, it's always yours and you decide what you are going to do with it. Second, there is no liquidation risk. Liquidation is something that we have with futures when you don't have enough margin to cover your position. So example, if you are trading at X 20, that means that if you have $100, you use $2,000. And if those $2,000 drops and loses those 100, you can get liquidated or you need to add an extra margin. So this is something that happens with futures. In spot trading, there is no such thing. Next, easier for beginners and to understand. Yes, it's pretty simple and it's pretty straightforward. You buy an asset with your fiat money, and you own it. If the price go up, you make money. If the price go down, you lose money. So it's basically pretty straightforward. In spot trading, we have something like long term holding. What is a long term holding potential? For example, if you have bought Bitcoin back in 2000 and let's say ten now if you sell it, you would have made a profit. So you hold it at the period of 15 years and you made a profit. If you buy efium, let's say at $1,000 and you sell it now, you make a profit of $3,000. So this is what long term holding means. Basically, you buy an asset, back in time and sell it in let's say in a year or two. Next, greatest thing about spot that since you own your asset, you can transfer, store, or use it. So it gives you some extra features that you will not get with future trading. So basically, this is spot. You buy something, you own something until you sell something or use something. That's it. Pretty straightforward. We don't use leverage here or something. We just buy something, and that's it. Now let's see what is a future. So future trading, it's a little more difficult thing than spot. I don't suggest any beginner to start with fit, but if you use, let's say, reasonable risk management really reasonable and you don't go crazy on leverage, you can try it, of course. So what is future trading? Future trading means you don't buy the asset directly. Instead, you trade a contract that tracks its price. You can bet whatever the price will go up or down when the price go up, we call it long position. When the price go down, we call it short position. I will explain in a little bit what does the long and short position mean? This way, you can profit in both bull and bear markets. So what is the benefit of future trading? First, so what is the benefit of futures trading? Well, first of all, you can trade both directions. You can trade at the price up and price down, which gives you more flexibility. You can use leverage to control your position size. What does it mean? Using, let's say, $100 with X five, you will be trading with 500. So let's say, it's something like exchange giving you a line of credit as long as you maintain the minimum deposit for this position. So you cannot go below specific loss. So what does the leverage mean? It means that exchange will give you a line of credit that you can use. Of course, you'll have to pay for this line of credit. Most of exchanges are taking the commission for this credit that they've provided to you every 8 hours. The good thing with small amount of money, you can trade bigger amount of money. Basically, this gives you a chance for bigger profits. And this is the most attractable thing about futures. It gives you the potential for higher profits. In short term, this type of trading is popular with day traders. But remember, higher rewards come with higher risks. With leverage, you can also lose faster. So you should keep that in mind. You are not just making the money faster, you also can lose money faster. This is a problem that happens a lot with all new traders, and you should keep in mind. You should have a good risk management. You should now go crazy like X 50, X 60, X 70. You should never do that. You should keep your risk management. That way, you will minimize the chance of losing your money. Let's talk now about what is long and short position. Ong vis short. So I prepared two simple explanations for you to understand what does the long mean and what does the short mean and how you profit it. With Long, from my point of view, everything is pretty straightforward. Going long means you think the price will go up. It's like buying an asset for $8 and waiting until the market sells it for, let's say, nine or more. When the price goes higher, you sell and keep the extra money as a profit. So long means, I believe it will go up. Pretty straightforward. Going short means you think the price will go down. Imagine you borrow an asset worth $8 and sell it right away for $8. Later, the market drops the asset price to four. You buy it back for $4, return the asset to its original owner, and keep the other four as profit. So short means I win when prices go down. I think those explanations are pretty straightforward and easy to understand for any student. So this was all for our introduction part into futures and spot trading. Now we are going to our exchanges, and I will show you how the battlefield really looks like. 3. Lesson 2 - CEX overview : So now we are at our first exchange. It's K Sex and the second one that I'm using is Binx. There are two different exchanges. I work with them. You can work with any exchange you like. I will be posting the links for those exchanges in the description of this lesson, if you would like to try one of them. What is the difference? What is the main difference between K sex and BinkX? Well, keySeX and Binkx they are both centralized exchange. The difference is with KX, you can work without KYC, which means you don't need to verify your identity as of this moment. With BinkX, you will be required to submit your ID. Your address so that you can access all the features that exchange offer. Both of those exchanges offer KYC. The difference is with Binx, it's mandatory, and with Key sex, it's optional. This is first. A second difference between KeyseX and BinkX is that KeyseX is a more simplified platform focused on futures trading only. It doesn't have too much competitions, you can see here in Event Center, there is a future strading competition, but that's all. Let's say it's not too much overwhelming. It's simply deposit and trade. When if we are talking about Binkx, Bing is more advanced exchange. Over here, you can see, we have a lot of stuff. Of course, we have our spot. Even spot, we have lunch pad, we have lunch pool, we have X pull for staking. We have pre market trading. We have air drops. All these you have only on Binx. You don't have on KSAXOn KSAXs it's 100% just trading. No extra stuff, no good stuff. For trading, yes, you might have choose k sex. But if you want to get a full experience of your crypto journey, I would go with Binckes. Okay, over here in futures, we have two types of futures we have USDCM. We have coin and futures. This one is Fiat. This is crypto, standard futures, futures kickoff. You have some trading information here. You have copy trading, wealth you can earn grid trading, loans, and this is dual investment, signal trading, a lot of advanced stuff over here. You have an advanced reward cup here, and you can see over here, there is more benefits like benefits, inviern and stuff like this that you can use. Also, important, BinkX has a 100% proof of results, which is important in our days. Also, what is interesting here, there is different types of activities now you can see that the hot token mega spin is active. You can win some tokens, you can win cool apple products, and it happens all the time. So this exchange is really community involved. So with deadbin set, we have talked about KSAXs and we have talked about Binkx. If you want more simplified experience, you can try KSAXs. If you want more advanced experience, of course, you should go with Binkx. So we then be set in our next section, I will show you the trading platforms of each exchange. It's basically the same. If you use Banans, coke coin, key sags, bencakes, the user interface is basically the same. If you get the basics, you can use any exchange you like. So it really doesn't matter which exchange you choose. So with that being said, let's go to our second section and try out spot and future trading. Let's go. 4. Lesson 3 - Trading on Kcex: So we're back, and now we are going to try trading for the first time together. So over here in wallets, I have reloaded some slanas. It's in my spot wallet. You can see over here, I have 0.025 slanas. So let's try trading them. To trade them, we'll need to go to trade. And trade them for USDT, which is super simple. Over here, we have our trading interface. The important stuff here is current price, our time frames, our chart, you can add indicators, but I will show you in our indicator section what kind of indicators you should use and how you can use them. So now we'll go simple. We have few options for orders here, limited and market. Let me explain simply what does it mean? With limit, you select the price, select the amount. Let's do it like 250. Okay. Let's sell, sorry, let's sell 250. Okay, we'll sell everything and let's sell it. So over here we have our order confirmation. You can see our order price, average cost, quantity, order amount, estimated profit, and over here we have, again, our estimated profit that we'll gain if we'll sell at this price. So let's confirm. Okay. Now we have confirmed our order. You can see. Nope. One moment? Yes. Here is our order. At the moment, the order status is pending because we don't have this price. So limit means when we reach this price, the order will be executed. This is a good approach, but in some case, it's not the best one, since it's a little bit slow. So what we're going to do? We're going to cancel yes. Now we'll choose market. Market means sell this asset at the market price at this moment, so it will be executed instantly. We here you can see we don't have any used this and when I select all salamas that we have and press sell you can see that our order was placed successfully, and we receive 5.99 USDT to our account. So this is how the cell and buy mechanism work in the exchange. You saw that we own 0.025 Svanas. We've sold them, and now we own 5.99 USDTs. Now, let's go to future section and see how that works. We'll need to go to futures over here. Also both exchanges has mobile application, which I think is better to use, but I'm showing it on the computer because you will be able to see everything what's happening here more detailed than on the mobile app. Okay, so this is our features menu. You can see we are at the moment, looking at the efium use dT price, the current price is over here. Okay, so there's two options isolated and cross. So what does that mean? Isolated, you select the amount of margin you're using, for example, $100. If you lose the amount, it will not affect your account. So basically, you're isolating this way the risk you're taking. With cross, if you have $10,000 in your account and everything goes down, your entire account will be editing margin until it will get liquidated. I always use isolated, it's safer, and believe me, being liquidated is not a nice thing. So don't try to use. Okay, so let's stick to Elate. So here is our leverage. You can see that leverage can be different from x one to x 25. Let me show you some. Let's go to x 25. Okay. You can see that we have zero ttes here. Let me transfer from Spot account. This is the best thing about KSAx. It has only two accounts, so it's not confusing at all. Some of exchanges like Binance and Bibi they have five and you're like, Okay, how do I transfer the money now? It's a little bit confusing. Okay, so since we have only two accounts, it's simple spy. Okay, let's transfer. Okay, you can see that we have transfer 6.5 usages. If I select, if I select the amount, you can see a few things. Estimated liquidation price, if we go long and if we go short. Now, pay attention. You see the price? This is five minute chart. So our chance of being liquidated with X 125 is rising. This is why I encourage you to use smaller leverage. Why? Well, simple. Let's make our money safe and nothing por. Okay, with that being said, let me change our leverage to something more appropriate as risk. For bitcoin and nefarim I'm trying to use around ten, it's pretty safe, but with altcoins, x two or x free even is recommended. Okay, so let's go to x ten. Now, let's create our order. Okay, you see if we go along, our liquidation will be at $4,045. Same with short. So here, if we go to our four hour chart, we easy can see the levels, and we will be able to predict where to put our stop loss, and we'll be able to manage our risk in let's say, reasonable borders. So now let's create our first trait Okay, so we are opening at Exten isolated, market order. You can use limited, but I prefer to use market in this case. But with futures, in some cases, if I will show you later in our classes, when we are finding levels, it's good to use limit as well. It could be really, really useful. But for the purpose of this class, of course, we'll be using market so that you can get a clear and easy understanding of how it works. Okay, so we're going with market, 100%. Our amount will be $58.27. Again, we are entering with 5.83 SDT. It doesn't up, it doesn't let me to get. Okay, so we are entering with this amount of margin, and we are buying for $58. Let's buy long. Our long order is completed. So let's go to our orders. Over here, you can see that we have opened long, isolated extend. Our position amount is 58.22 it. The price with entret is here. This is our break. Even this is the current mark. This is our liquidation, and this is our margin create. So over here, we can see our unrealized panel and our unrealized panel in percentage. You can also add auto margin addition, which I don't recommend. This way you are changing your order status from isolated to cross, and all your account is at risk. But over here is something useful. This is market, make profit, and stop loss. So we can do like this. So the price we've entred is 475. So let's do it. Okay. And let's do a stop loss at four so you can see, if we sell at this price, we'll profit 0.31 USDT, which is 5%. This is the important part. You always think about percentage. You don't think about the money, think about percentage. Think about how much you make. You can put $10. But with the $10, if you make 20, 50 or 60%, this is the result, not the money you've made. And here is the same for our stop loss. Now I will show you a little rule which says that your profit must be three times your loss. So to make it three times your loss, let's do it like this. So if we will lose, let's say, here, 10%, yes, we must profit 30% and automatically, you will get your order set up. So you will exit at 4,609 and your stop loss will be at 4,430. This way you're losing 10%, and if your position is correct, you are profiting 30%. You can use it like this. Let's say 150 against 50. But the rule is profit bigger than your loss three times. Otherwise, your risk management is totally not okay. So let me close this position. Unfortunately, we'll close it at the -0.2 cent. Let's close it. Okay, so we have closed successfully. Unfortunately, we didn't make any profit. And this is the simplest functions unit. My idea is not to throw you here, okay, guys. Trade, you will make money and blah, blah, blah blah the idea is not to throw you in the battlefield unprepared. I want to show you simply how you can open an order, how you can do this, how you can do that. Later, we'll talk about more advanced things and you will learn how to predict the price, how to analyze the chart. And basically, you will with each lesson, you will get more and more information on how to succeed on this market. But let me tell you now, discipline is something you need to work on from day one. If you don't work with discipline and if you don't have discipline, believe me, you will lose money. It's not that easy as it looks. We have seen how to do a spot order, we have seen how to do a futures order. The type of market orders we have limit and market. In both cases, it's the same. Now, let's transfer our funds from keySeX to Binx. Okay, let's do it. 5. Lesson 4 - Transfer funds from CEX: Do this, I will need to transfer my funds back to SPOT. P. Let's transfer all. Perfect. Let's go to our wallets. Spot. Okay, so we have six UT in our spot wallet over here. Now, let's withdraw it. Okay? This is our withdraw user interface. Our deposit user interface is basically the same. So we are going to transfer it to Binx. Now let's go to deposit. No. Can see that it's basically the same as the withdrawal, and this is a different exchange. Okay so let's deposit use the T. I use BNB because it has the less fees. Okay so let's copy our address, copy. Let's go to KeyseX based. Now important thing when you withdrawing money, be careful with these networks because if you miss match the network, your money will be lost. So it's BNB, smart chain, yes. Okay? Select all, submit. Okay. Okay, I need to change verification. Let's get our email. Okay, let's get our code. Our code is 363537. Submitted. Okay, now we need to do a mobile verification. Yes. This is so annoying, but there's no other way. The good thing with Mobile app, you can do it just with face ID if you use iPhone, and I think if you use Android, you will be able to do it if they have something like Face ID or touch ID. Okay, so we're submitting it. Done. Okay, so we have successfully withdraw our money from KSAXs. Now let's go to Binkx. Okay, so at the moment, we don't see any deposits over here. Let's refresh. Usually takes like a few minutes. Okay, so you can see that our deposit has been deposited successfully. It took me 5 minutes to receive my money from one exchange to another, which I think is pretty fast. So let's go to our assets. So here we have our funding account, our spot futures 6. Lesson 5 - Trading on BingX and more.: Let's try doing a spot trait on keySeX transfer. We will be transferring our from funding to spot. Here, it's a little bit more confusing. Let's transfer them. Let's go to Spot accounts let's buy XRP XRP use the team. A lot of modifications here. Another big thing, pink xs is trading I, which you can ask a lot of things, and it can be really useful because when you are trading, it's important to get maybe a second opinion sometime. This AI can help you trade a lot. Okay. So as you can see, close it. As you can see, basically, the interface is the same. Over here, we have spot, market, limit just the same stuff we had in Kisexs. So let's do a little market. Okay, so we can buy two ER piece. Let's buy two exer piece. Okay, market price, perfect. Execute immediately, and we have 2.19 exRpiece. Now, let's sell them. Okay, confirm, sell. Okay, so we have our US digs back. Let's try doing limit at buy. Okay, so we will buy at, let's say. Two. We need to buy with a lower price. So 295. Extra piece, Pi. Okay, let's create our order. Here, order is a little bit more simple. You have price amount, total money that we are going to spend. Confirm. Okay, you can see that our order is here and it is also pending and waiting for a trigger price. So let's cancel it. Confirm. So spot trading is pretty simple in both exchanges. You just deposit the money, you select the type of order you want, limit or market, you select your assets, and you're ready to go. Let's go to futures as well. Okay, so we'll need to go to Futures, use the M, which stands for Fat futures. Okay, so our future menu is basically the same we saw with KSAxs. Let's transfer our assets over here. Okay, so from our SPOT account to our futures account. Okay, let's transfer it. Over here, we have Cross and islatd. And this is the new one separate islatd. You can open multiple related margin positions in the same direction for the same trading pair. Could be useful, maybe. Why not? This is an interesting approach to trading about how to open a position. We'll talk a little bit later in our classes and we'll discuss what is the best approach in futures trading. Here also we have hedge. Now this is interesting. Let me explain. Not a lot of exchanges has hedge mode. Hedge mode allow you to go long and short at the same time. I will show you how to use the hedge mode in our next lessons. But let's say, it's a great tool when you know how to use it. And basic mode, which is one way mode, when you can open, let's say, thereum long or only short, you cannot both them open them both. So I will use for this video one way, confirm and as we talk with you, the leverage is important. Be careful. Here we have 150, which is a lot more than we have on KseX. So this is another advantage of Binx. You have bigger leverage. But remember, bigger leverage, bigger risk. Be careful. Okay, so I will go with extend as well. So let's try it. Mark ILated. Extend one way. Variable margin. Let's select all. Sorry, we are at Bitcoin. Let me transfer to perio, yes. Okay, so I will need to fix this. Yes. Okay, so isolated, extend, one way market. Let's go. Okay. Over here as well, we have our estimated liquidation in case of short and long. I will go long. Okay. Okay, so we have successfully opened our long position. You can see that it's basically straightforward, the same with the kisses position we had. You have your position, your profit or your loss. Current commission that we have paid to the exchange, average open price, mark price at the moment, liquidation, risk margin. I think over here we'll be able, yes, over here. You can see that we can use this mechanism to add margin. So basically, if I add the margin I have and confirm I'll be able to add margin and lower my liquidation. Also, you can reduce margin like this. We reduce the margin and you can see the liquidation price is changing, not in our favor. Confirm, and we withdraw extra liquidity that we have entered to our contract. Okay, so over here we have our margin, as I've told you. Now as well, take profit or stop loss. So take profit, stop loss. You know the drill basically. Always, you must profit three times more than you lose. So it must be one to three in your favor. Okay, so I will not be editing this right now, over here, we can close our position. We can choose to close it on market or limit. If we use limit, we need to select the price. If we use market, we are closing at the moment. So we have a little bit of profit over here, so let's close it at market. Confirm. And we have successfully closed our position, and we should be able to see here in our trade history this position. Okay. So this is our buy, and this is our sell. And you can see how much money we've made and how much we've paid to exchange. So this is how you create a trade on spot futures market, and I've show you how to transfer your funds from one exchange to another. 7. Congratulations : Well, you've made it. Now you have successfully completed my class, and at the end, you know what is spot? What does futures trading mean? What is the difference between long and short position? And you know how to transfer funds from one exchange to another. Also, now, I've created this class to show to you Guys, this is the platform. This is how it works to at least make it easier and simpler for you to start trading. Because when I start trading, believe me, I learn everything by heart and by myself. I want you to know that there is somebody there that will always help you. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at anytime. I will respond as soon as I can, and I will try to help you.