Mechanics and risk
Follow a position through its price index, mark price, funding payments and margin controls. These guides also cover closed-market sessions and corporate actions, so the moving parts can be read together before using the risk checklist.
Dividends, splits and corporate actions on a perpetualYou get no dividend and no vote from a Binance TradFi perpetual, but ex-dividend dates, splits and mergers still reach the position. What Binance documents, what it does not, and what a holder should actually do.
Funding on equity perps: why a stock perp driftsLearn how funding on Binance TradFi perpetuals links the contract to its index, why intervals and caps vary by contract, and how to check and calculate your own terms.
Should you hold a stock perpetual through earnings?What an after-close earnings report does to a 24/7 stock perpetual: which index mode is live, why the mark price lags the trade, how funding reacts and what leverage survives.
Leverage tiers and liquidation on a perpetual: how it actually triggersLearn how notional brackets reduce available leverage, why liquidation follows mark price, and how to estimate the adverse move an isolated-margin position may withstand.
Liquidated on a stock perpetual? Rebuilding what happened from your order historyWork out who closed a stock or ETF perpetual and why: liquidation, ADL or your own stop, the index mode at the close time, the mark-price chart and the Liquidation Clearance fee.
Cross vs isolated margin, hedge and Multi-Assets ModeCompare cross and isolated margin, one-way and hedge modes, eligible collateral and liquidation risk for Binance TradFi perpetuals.
Binance mark price vs index price: how each one is builtThe five index modes behind a TradFi perpetual, the median mark-price formula, the one-minute blended exit from orderbook mode, and the two deviation limits Binance publishes.
Perpetual futures risk checklist: fourteen questions before the first tradeA pre-trade checklist for Binance TradFi perpetual contracts: liquidation price, margin mode, leverage tier at your size, order-book depth, funding, earnings dates, index mode, weekend gaps, mark-price stops and position sizing.
Trading a US stock at 3am on a SundaySee how a 24/7 stock perpetual is priced while the cash market is closed, with a session map, Orderbook EWMA mechanics and a worked weekend-gap scenario.