How-to guides

The operations, step by step

Guides: Open an account Pass KYC Place a spot order Set a stop-loss Fund an account Withdraw safely Lock the account down Read a funding rate Practise first Start on a DEX Stop-loss on a DEX Track a transfer Cash out

The Primer Path teaches you what to think. These guides cover the other half — the buttons you actually have to press, with the arithmetic worked out so you can check your own result afterwards. Written to be run alongside the live interface, not from memory.

Which guide do you need? Pick by the screen you are stuck on, not by reading order — these are reference, not a course. Funded account and staring at an order form? Start with placing a spot order. In a position and want to cap the downside? Go to setting a stop-loss on Bybit. Moving coins off an exchange for the first time? Read withdrawing safely before you touch anything. Holding a perpetual overnight? Read the funding rate first. Sent a withdrawal that has not turned up? Check it on a block explorer.

6 guides

Before you place a trade

Getting the account open, verified and locked down — the work that has to happen before any money is at risk.

How to pass crypto exchange KYC

The four typed answers you cannot edit afterwards, the three-month proof-of-address window, and what Binance, OKX and Bybit each do if you never finish.

How to open a Binance account

What verification actually blocks, the five minutes of security to do before any deposit, and what not to touch in week one.

How to open an OKX account

The grace period that freezes unverified accounts, the proof-of-address date rule, and what to set up while review runs.

How to open a Bybit account

Standard, Advanced and Pro: what each level asks for, and the one step that can leave you ineligible rather than resubmitting.

How to secure a crypto exchange account

The switch called “whitelist” restricts destinations on Binance but removes the 2FA prompt on Bybit — plus the 24 to 72 hour delay that turns an alert into time to act.

How to paper trade crypto

Size 2.0 ETH from a $100 risk budget, grade every trade against the plan, and see why a 10-trade losing streak that paper says costs 10.00% really costs 10.56%.

Related: practice arena · position sizing

7 guides

Placing and managing trades

What to press once money is in the market, and how to check afterwards that the screen did what you meant.

How to start trading on Hyperliquid

Wallet or email login, the USDC-on-Arbitrum deposit with its 5 USDC floor, and the three order-form defaults — 20x, Cross, size in BTC — to change before a first perpetual on a self-custody venue.

Related: Hyperliquid profile · DEX vs CEX

How to set a stop-loss on Hyperliquid

The mark price triggers it, a market stop may fill 10% past that trigger — $1,000 on a $10,000 position — and the stop distance you want caps your leverage: 5% needs 16x or less, 10% needs 8x or less.

How to place your first spot order on Binance

Spot versus Futures, base versus quote, market versus limit — and the fill arithmetic showing why a $120 market buy at a quoted $60,000 can settle at an average of $60,050.

How to set a stop-loss on Bybit

The checkbox that hides the stop fields, the mode that forces a market exit, and why a triggered limit stop can leave a $105 planned loss at $250.

How to read the funding rate on OKX

The bracket beside the rate is the settlement interval — and OKX can shorten it from 8 hours to 1 without telling you, turning a $67.50 worst-case day into a $540 one on the same $6,000 position.

How to calculate your liquidation price

The exchange’s own five-step formula, and the arithmetic showing that at 125× the “1 ÷ leverage” shortcut promises exactly twice the room that exists — 0.800% against a real 0.400%.

How to calculate crypto profit and loss — five costs, not one

A 2% winner on a $10,000 position settles at $186.90, not $200 — and below a 0.1301% move the same trade loses money while being right about the direction.

5 guides

Moving money safely

Deposits and withdrawals — the only group where a mistake cannot be undone, so each guide warns first and instructs second.

How to fund a crypto account without overpaying

A card charges 2% and a SEPA transfer 1 EUR flat, so the same 500 EUR costs 10.00 EUR or 1.00 EUR depending on the row you click — but below 50 EUR the card is the cheaper one.

How Binance P2P works — escrow, and the three ways people lose the money

Escrow locks the seller’s crypto, not your bank transfer — and across eight currencies the best-priced sell ad came from accounts with as few as 0 completed orders, while the flat fee everyone asks about is 0.05 USDT.

How to withdraw crypto safely — the 7-step checklist

Address, network, memo and test transaction: the checklist that stops the one mistake in crypto you cannot undo, and what a test transfer really costs.

How to check a crypto transaction on a block explorer

Confirmations are chain tip minus your block plus one — and in 14 real block intervals we measured, the average landed on 9.97 minutes while one single gap ran to 47.92.

Related: withdraw safely · self-custody

How to convert crypto to cash — and which route is actually cheapest

An order-book sale plus a 25.00 wire costs 26.00 on 1,000 USD while a card costs 20.00 — and above 1,315.79 the ranking flips, because a flat fee does not scale.

More guides are added as the curriculum grows — paper trading is next. If you are not sure where to begin, start here — the operations are easier once the reasoning behind them is in place.

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