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Trading & Risk

20 connected articles.

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Standard, Unified, and Portfolio Margin Accounts

How Hyperliquid's account modes decide which balances can support which positions.

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Cross Margin vs Isolated Margin

How shared and ring-fenced collateral change liquidation risk on Hyperliquid.

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How Liquidations Work on Hyperliquid

Maintenance margin, market liquidations, backstop liquidations, and what happens to remaining collateral.

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Funding Rates on Hyperliquid

Why funding exists, who pays whom, and how Hyperliquid calculates the rate.

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Mark Price vs Oracle Price vs Last Price

Why Hyperliquid uses multiple prices for trading, funding, PnL, and liquidation.

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Open Interest, Volume, and Funding

How three market metrics reveal different parts of a perpetual market's positioning and activity.

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Hyperliquid Order Types Explained

Market, limit, stop, take-profit, scale, TWAP, post-only, and IOC orders without the trading jargon.

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Hyperliquid Fees, Makers, and Takers

How fee tiers, maker rebates, staking discounts, spot weighting, and HIP-3 deployer fees fit together.

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What Are Builder Codes?

How Hyperliquid frontends and applications can charge per-order fees without taking custody of user funds.

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Subaccounts and API Wallets

How professional users separate strategies and authorize automated trading on Hyperliquid.

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Hyperliquid Margin Tiers Explained

Margin tiers make leverage decrease as a position becomes larger, limiting how much concentrated risk one account can place on a market.

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Initial Margin vs Maintenance Margin on Hyperliquid

Initial margin determines whether a leveraged position can be opened; maintenance margin determines how much equity must remain before liquidation becomes possible.

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Take Profit and Stop Loss Orders on Hyperliquid

Hyperliquid TP and SL orders are trigger orders: a mark-price condition activates an order that then attempts to execute according to its configured market or limit behavior.

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Entry Price, Unrealized PnL, and Realized PnL on Hyperliquid

Entry price summarizes the cost basis of an open position, unrealized PnL marks that open exposure, and realized PnL records value crystallized through closes and other settled flows.

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Self-Trade Prevention on Hyperliquid

Self-trade prevention stops orders from the same address from trading against each other, reducing accidental wash-like fills and unnecessary fees in multi-order strategies.

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What Are Hyperps?

Hyperps are perpetual markets designed for assets that do not yet have a conventional spot-oracle setup, using a market-derived marking framework until they can transition to standard perps.

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What Happens When Hyperliquid Delists a Market?

Delisting is a protocol process for winding down a market, and traders need to understand the timeline because open positions and outstanding orders cannot be treated as normal indefinitely.

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Market Making on Hyperliquid

Market making on Hyperliquid means continuously managing limit orders, inventory, adverse selection, fees, latency, and risk rather than simply placing bids and asks around a midpoint.

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Spread, Slippage, Depth, and Market Impact on Hyperliquid

Spread measures the gap between best bid and ask, depth measures available liquidity, slippage describes execution versus a reference price, and market impact is the price movement associated with consuming or revealing demand.

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Hyperliquid Risk Checklist Before Using Leverage

A leverage checklist should test liquidation distance, liquidity, reference prices, funding, fees, account mode, key security, and failure scenarios before position size is chosen.