The market, explained.
Guides on trading, leverage, and the assets we list — written by the people who built Liquid.
Beginner Guides
Start with the core mechanics of perpetual futures and risk.
You Can Now Give Meta Muse Your Trading Account
Co-Invest is now live in Muse, Meta's personal AI agent. Connect it once and Muse can read your Liquid portfolio, brief you on the market, and place trades you approve, all from the same chat you use for email and calendar.
You Can Now Give Grok Bot Your Trading Account
Co-Invest just connected to Grok Bot through MCP, so xAI's agent can analyze your portfolio, tell you about the market, and place trades on Liquid without you needing to touch the dashboard.
How to Install Co-Invest in Claude and ChatGPT
A step-by-step setup guide for Co-Invest, the Liquid trading connector for Claude and ChatGPT. Connect it, fund your account, start in paper mode, and place your first trade from a conversation.
The Beginner's Guide to Trading (Without the Fear)
Real markets, real mechanics, simulated money. Here's how to learn before you risk anything.
How to Fund Your Liquid Account
A step-by-step on-ramping tutorial: add money with a card or bank transfer, move crypto from another app or wallet, and check when your funds are ready.
How to Trade on Liquid
Place and manage your first trade on Liquid. Learn how to choose a market, read size and margin, set exit orders, confirm a fill, and close a position.
How to Start Paper Trading on Liquid
Trade real markets with simulated funds. Learn how to turn on paper trading mode, which markets it covers, how to reset your practice balance, and where its limits are.
4 Things Every Beginner Perp Trader Should Know
The basics before you press buy — what you are trading, getting the mechanics into muscle memory, keeping risk small, and journaling your trades.
What Every Market on Liquid Actually Is
New to Liquid? A beginner's guide to crypto, stock, index, commodity, FX, pre-IPO, and prediction markets — and what actually moves each one.
Stop Loss Strategies for Beginners
Set it once. Let the market do the rest. Five practical stop-loss strategies that help beginners lose less and stay in the game.
24/7 Trading
Trading at night, on weekends, and outside stock-market hours: where to trade and what each contract gives you.
Which Brokers Offer 24/7 Trading?
Most brokers that advertise round-the-clock trading offer 24/5 overnight sessions on select stocks. Crypto exchanges and perpetual platforms like Liquid trade 24/7. Here is who offers what, and when.
Can I Buy and Sell Stocks Outside of Market Hours?
Yes. Brokers offer pre-market, after-hours, and 24/5 overnight sessions for actual shares, and stock perps on Liquid let you trade a company's price, long or short, 24/7, including weekends.
What Markets Can I Trade When the Stock Market Is Closed?
Crypto trades 24/7, FX trades 24/5, and many futures trade nearly around the clock on weekdays. On Liquid you can trade crypto, stock, index, gold, oil, FX, and pre-IPO perps from one account when the stock market is shut.
Where Can I Trade Stocks 24/7? Shares, Overnight Sessions, and Stock Perps
Find out when you can trade actual shares, how overnight brokerage sessions work, and where stock perpetuals fit when exchanges are closed.
Which Platforms Let Me Trade on Weekends? A Sunday Trading Guide
Explore Saturday and Sunday trading on Liquid, choose the market for your idea, and follow a practical workflow from research to a reviewed order.
How to Choose the Best Platform for Around-the-Clock Trading
Choose an around-the-clock trading platform by its markets, trading hours, costs, and practical tools for researching, opening, and managing positions.
Where Can I Trade Gold and Oil at Night?
Explore overnight gold and oil trading through commodity perpetuals, exchange-listed futures, and funds, with a practical guide to hours, sizing, and costs.
Leveraged Trading
Compare market-specific leverage, platform controls, and the risks behind a larger position.
Where Can You Trade with 50x Leverage?
Where Liquid supports 50x leverage, why stock and crypto limits differ, and how position size and margin work together.
How to Choose a Leverage Trading App as a Beginner
Compare leverage apps by practice tools, clear order previews, costs, and market fit before choosing your first platform.
How Much Leverage Can You Get Trading Gold and Oil?
Gold and oil leverage depends on the contract, venue, and margin. Learn how to compare commodity perpetuals with dated futures and size an example trade.
Which Leverage Trading Platforms Are Non-Custodial?
Liquid offers non-custodial trading. Learn how wallet control, transaction permissions, and margin choices fit together in one app.
Perpetual Trading Platforms
Choose a perpetual market by its contract, custody, execution, and total cost.
Where to Trade Perpetual Futures: A Platform Guide
Compare perpetual trading platforms by the markets, execution, custody, costs, and controls you actually need.
Perpetual Futures Fees: How to Compare the Total Cost
Understand the complete cost of a perpetual trade with clear examples of entry, exit, funding, spread, and slippage.
Where Can I Trade Stock Perps?
Stock perpetuals provide long or short price exposure without share ownership. Learn where they trade and what to check before opening a position.
AI & Trading
How artificial intelligence is changing the way traders research, decide, and execute.
What Is the Best AI Trading Platform?
The best AI trading platform depends on whether you want stock scans, chart automation, or an agent that trades your account. Here is an honest comparison of Liquid Co-Invest, Trade Ideas, TrendSpider, Webull, and chat assistants.
Which Trading Platforms Connect to Claude or ChatGPT?
Liquid connects to Claude and ChatGPT through Co-Invest, a free connector that researches markets, reads your portfolio, and places trades you confirm. It also works in Grok, Meta Muse, and iMessage. Here is how it compares and how to install it.
What Is the Best AI Agent for Trading Crypto?
Liquid Co-Invest is an AI agent for trading crypto from Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, or Meta Muse. It reads live funding and positioning, proposes trades you confirm, and can run a rule-bound strategy with Co-Invest Computer. Here is how to judge any crypto trading agent.
The Best AI Tools for Market Research and Trading: How to Choose
Compare AI research assistants, account-aware trading tools, backtesting platforms, and autonomous agents by what they actually do.
Can You Use ChatGPT to Place Trades?
ChatGPT needs a connected trading service to turn a conversation into an order. Learn how Liquid Co-Invest works and what to check before confirming.
How to Let an AI Agent Help Manage Your Trading Portfolio
Define what an AI agent may research, propose, and execute. Compare user-confirmed Co-Invest with autonomous Co-Invest Computer and build clear risk limits.
Can You Make Money with AI Trading?
Use AI to research markets, build a repeatable trading process, and evaluate results after costs. Learn how Liquid Co-Invest fits into the workflow.
Can Meta Muse Trade Stocks and Crypto? Yes, With Co-Invest
Meta's Muse agent can now trade crypto, stock, commodity, FX, index, and pre-IPO perps through Co-Invest on Liquid. Here's what it can and can't do, how approvals work, and how it compares to trading from Claude, ChatGPT, or Grok.
The Best Chrome Extension for Trading in 2026
Most trading Chrome extensions show you signals or track a portfolio. Co-Invest puts a real order button inside the pages you already read. Here is how it works and what you can trade with it.
Can You Trade on Liquid with TradingView?
Yes. The free Co-Invest extension for Chrome adds a Trade button to TradingView charts, so you can go long or short on Liquid for the symbol you are charting without leaving the tab.
Automated vs. Agentic Trading: What's the Difference?
Bots follow rules. Agents form judgments. Knowing the difference is the whole game — it decides what you can safely delegate to software and what guardrails actually protect you.
AI Trading: Why It Works and How to Start
AI trading tools process more data than any human can alone — here is how they fit into your process and why Co-Invest makes it effortless.
Co-Invest and the Singularity of Capitalism
Introducing Co-Invest, a way to research markets and place trades through ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Meta Muse, and a step toward intelligence-augmented capital allocation.
24/7 Hedging Guides
How to offset exposure to each asset, with practical sizing examples, funding costs, and the limits of a perpetual hedge.
How to Hedge Gold 24/7
A short gold perpetual can offset some price risk in gold you already own. Learn how to size the hedge, manage weekend exposure, and account for funding and basis.
How to Hedge Google Stock 24/7
Hedge GOOG or GOOGL shares with a short Google perpetual, including outside stock-market hours. Learn how much to short and how to manage funding and margin.
How to Hedge Bitcoin 24/7
A short BTC perpetual can offset some or all of the price exposure on Bitcoin you already own. Match the coin exposure, fund the margin, and plan both sides of the exit.
How to Hedge Ethereum 24/7
Use a short ETH perpetual to reduce Ethereum price exposure while retaining spot or staked ETH, with separate plans for collateral, staking rewards, and token tracking risk.
How to Hedge Solana 24/7
A short SOL perpetual can reduce the price exposure of spot or staked Solana. Learn to size it, plan around unstaking, and keep margin available through fast market moves.
How to Hedge Chainlink 24/7
Reduce LINK price exposure with a matching short perpetual while keeping spot or staked Chainlink. Account for the staking cooldown, variable funding, and separate collateral.
How to Hedge Dogecoin 24/7
Hedge part or all of an existing DOGE holding with a short perpetual. Size from coin exposure, prepare for rallies, and keep funding and collateral separate from the spot balance.
How to Hedge NVIDIA Stock 24/7
Use a short NVDA perpetual to offset a chosen portion of NVIDIA exposure, with clear sizing, separate margin, and a plan for earnings and after-hours basis risk.
How to Hedge Tesla Stock 24/7
A TSLA perpetual short can reduce the price risk of Tesla shares, including outside stock-market hours. Learn how to size it, handle rallies, and plan around company events.
How to Hedge Apple Stock 24/7
Learn how an AAPL perpetual short can offset Apple share exposure, including partial hedges, dividends, separate collateral, and closed-market pricing.
How to Hedge SpaceX Stock 24/7
Use a short SPCX perpetual to hedge SpaceX shares, including outside stock-market hours. Learn how much to short, fund the margin, and handle restricted holdings.
How to Hedge Silver 24/7
Use silver perpetuals to offset part of an existing silver holding, with practical sizing examples and a clear view of bullion premiums, funding, and weekend risk.
How to Hedge Oil 24/7
Hedge existing oil exposure or future fuel costs with the right trade direction. Understand WTI basis, contract references, sizing, and the limits of weekend perps.
How to Hedge Copper 24/7
A practical guide to copper hedges for holdings, inventory, and future purchases: choose the right direction, match the benchmark, and manage margin around the clock.
How to Hedge EUR/USD 24/7
Hedge euro exposure by choosing the EUR/USD position that offsets your actual cash flow, then size the contract and margin separately.
How to Hedge GBP/USD 24/7
Match a GBP/USD hedge to sterling income, savings, or future payments, with clear position sizing and a plan for funding and margin.
How to Hedge USD/JPY 24/7
USD/JPY runs in the opposite quote direction to EUR/USD. Learn which side hedges yen exposure and why a dollar-sized hedge needs rebalancing.
How to Hedge Anthropic Exposure 24/7
Use an ANTH short to reduce Anthropic valuation exposure, with a practical sizing example and a plan for margin, funding, and the hedge exit.
How to Hedge OpenAI Exposure 24/7
Reduce OpenAI valuation exposure with an OAI short. Learn how to size a partial hedge, manage margin and funding, and plan the exit.
Trading Concepts
The mechanics behind perpetual futures, margin, and risk.
How to Short Crypto Using Perpetual Futures
A practical guide to shorting crypto with perpetual futures — how it works, when to short, risk management, and common mistakes to avoid.
Cross Margin vs Isolated Margin Explained
The key differences between cross margin and isolated margin — how each mode works, when to use them, and how your choice affects liquidation risk.
What Is a Stop Loss and How to Set One
The essential guide to stop losses — what they are, how to set them, different stop loss types, and why they are the most important risk management tool in trading.
What Is Liquidation and How to Manage It
Everything you need to know about liquidation in perpetual futures — how it happens, how liquidation prices are calculated, and how to avoid getting liquidated.
What Are Funding Rates?
How funding rates keep perpetual futures prices aligned with spot markets — what they are, how they work, and how traders can use them strategically.
What Is a Short Squeeze?
How short squeezes work — why they happen, how to spot the setup, famous examples, and how to trade them with perpetual futures.
Platform Comparisons
How Liquid stacks up against the exchanges you already know.
Binance Alternatives: Best Trading Platforms in 2026
Looking beyond Binance? Compare the best alternatives by fees, custody, market coverage, and trading hours — including a non-custodial, 24/7 option with up to 50x multipliers.
Robinhood Alternatives: Best Trading Platforms in 2026
Looking beyond Robinhood? Compare the best alternatives by fees, trading hours, custody model, and asset coverage — including a non-custodial, 24/7 option with up to 50x multipliers and AI-assisted trading.
Coinbase Alternatives: Best Trading Platforms in 2026
Outgrowing Coinbase? Compare alternatives by fees, market coverage, derivatives access, and custody — including a non-custodial, 24/7 option with up to 50x multipliers.
Kraken Alternatives: Best Trading Platforms in 2026
Exploring alternatives to Kraken? Compare the best platforms by fees, custody, derivatives access, and multi-asset coverage — including a non-custodial, 24/7 option with up to 50x multipliers.
eToro Alternatives: Best Trading Platforms in 2026
Looking beyond eToro? Compare alternatives by fees, custody, trading hours, and asset coverage — including a non-custodial, 24/7 option with up to 50x multipliers.
Webull Alternatives: Best Trading Platforms in 2026
Looking beyond Webull? Compare alternatives by market hours, fees, short exposure, and custody — including a non-custodial, 24/7 option with up to 50x multipliers.
OKX Alternatives: Best Trading Platforms in 2026
Exploring alternatives to OKX? Compare the best platforms by fees, custody, derivatives depth, and multi-asset coverage — including a non-custodial, 24/7 option with up to 50x multipliers.
BingX Alternatives: Best Trading Platforms in 2026
Looking for alternatives to BingX? Compare the best platforms by fees, custody, derivatives depth, and multi-asset coverage — including a non-custodial, 24/7 option with up to 50x multipliers.
Bybit Alternatives: Best Trading Platforms in 2026
Compare Bybit alternatives by fees, custody, derivatives access, and multi-asset coverage — including a non-custodial 24/7 option with 50x multipliers.
Bitget Alternatives: Best Trading Platforms in 2026
Compare Bitget alternatives by fees, custody, derivatives access, and multi-asset coverage — including a non-custodial, 24/7 option with 50x multipliers.
dYdX Alternatives: Best Perpetual Trading Platforms in 2026
Compare dYdX alternatives by fees, custody, and market coverage — Liquid, Bybit, OKX, and Kraken versus the dYdX crypto perp DEX.
Charles Schwab Alternatives: Best Trading Platforms in 2026
Comparing Charles Schwab alternatives by fees, custody, trading hours and market coverage: Liquid, Interactive Brokers, Fidelity, Webull and Schwab.
Fidelity Alternatives: Best Trading Platforms in 2026
Comparing Fidelity alternatives by fees, custody, trading hours and market coverage — including a non-custodial, 24/7 perps platform.
E*TRADE Alternatives: Best Trading Platforms in 2026
Comparing E*TRADE alternatives in 2026 by fees, custody, trading hours, and market coverage — including Liquid's 24/7, non-custodial, multi-asset perps.
TradeStation Alternatives: Best Trading Platforms in 2026
Compare TradeStation alternatives by futures fees, custody, trading hours, and market coverage — including a non-custodial, 24/7 platform with up to 50x.
NinjaTrader Alternatives: Best Trading Platforms in 2026
NinjaTrader alternatives compared by futures fees, custody, trading hours, and market coverage — plus a 24/7 non-custodial platform with 50x multipliers.
Pre-IPO Markets
Trade exposure to the biggest private companies, on-chain.
How to Trade Pre-IPO Perpetual Futures
Explore OpenAI and Anthropic exposure on Liquid, with a guide to private-company reference prices, long and short positions, and funding.
How to Get OpenAI Exposure Before an IPO
Explore OpenAI exposure through Liquid’s OAI perpetual, including long and short positions, reference pricing, and how it differs from private shares.
How to Trade Anthropic Pre-IPO Exposure
Explore long and short Anthropic exposure through Liquid’s ANTH perpetual, with a worked valuation example and a practical trading checklist.
China Is Winning the Robot Race. Unitree Just Proved It.
Unitree ships more humanoid robots than anyone in the world, and on August 19, 2026 it listed on Shanghai's STAR Market. Here's the story behind the IPO, how the debut went, and how to trade Unitree exposure on Liquid.
How SpaceX Perps Work
SpaceX listed on Nasdaq as SPCX on June 12, 2026. The Liquid perp now tracks the listed stock, so here is how the contract, the reference price, and the risks changed after the IPO.
How OpenAI Perps Work
Why OpenAI can trade as a perp even without a public listing: the market only needs a credible oracle, and Nasdaq Private Market is the right reference layer.
How Anthropic Perps Work
Anthropic does not need to be publicly listed for a perp market to exist. The contract only needs a reliable oracle, with Nasdaq Private Market as the natural reference layer.
Futures & Perpetuals
Understand dated futures versus perpetuals before comparing platforms, fees, and trading hours.
What Is the Best Platform for Futures Trading?
The best futures platform depends on the contract you trade. Liquid is built for 24/7 perpetual futures across asset classes; IBKR, Schwab, and futures-focused brokers carry dated CME contracts. Compare hours, fees, custody, and leverage.
Where Can I Trade Futures 24/7?
Liquid offers perpetual futures with 24/7 trading, including weekends, on every listed market. Dated exchange futures trade on product-specific sessions. Here is how the two routes compare.
Can I Trade Futures on the Weekend?
Yes. Every Liquid perp, from crypto to stocks and commodities, trades through Saturday and Sunday, and a few CME crypto and metals futures now have weekend sessions. Most dated futures still close from Friday evening to Sunday evening.
What Are the Lowest Fee Futures Trading Platforms?
The cheapest futures platform depends on your contract, size, and trade count. Here are published futures commissions from IBKR, Schwab, E*TRADE, TradeStation, and NinjaTrader, compared with Liquid perpetual fees.
Where Can I Trade Gold and Oil Futures?
Trade gold and oil as perpetual futures on Liquid, with no expiry and no delivery, or trade dated CME gold and WTI contracts through a futures broker. Here is how the routes compare on hours, size, fees, and custody.
Can I Trade Index Futures Around the Clock?
Index perpetuals on Liquid give you S&P 500-style and Nasdaq-style exposure without contract months, with up to 50x on eligible index markets. CME E-mini and Micro E-mini futures trade nearly 24 hours, Sunday to Friday.
How Do I Start Trading Futures Online?
Pick the contract type, open an account that carries it, practice with simulated funds, then trade small with a written exit plan. Here is the route for perpetual futures on Liquid and for dated futures at a broker.
Futures vs. Perpetual Futures: Hours, Expiry, and Access
Dated futures and perpetuals can reference similar assets but have different expiry, margin, and trading-hour rules. Here is how to tell them apart.
Insights
Perspectives on capital markets and where they're heading.
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Airdrop Farming: A Historical Strategy Case Study
A dated case study of how traders evaluated points programs, trading costs, and hedged exposure — and the basis, funding, execution, liquidation, venue, oracle, and airdrop risks that could break the strategy.
What Are Prediction Markets and How Do They Work
A clear guide to prediction markets: what a prediction market is, how prediction market prices work, why prediction markets forecast real outcomes, and how to trade prediction markets on Liquid.
World Cup Prediction Markets: How They Work
Learn how World Cup prediction markets turn tournament outcomes into prices, how to read implied probability, and what to check before trading future football events.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where should a beginner start on Liquid Learn?
Start with The Beginner’s Guide to Trading, then read 4 Things Every Beginner Perp Trader Should Know and What Is a Stop Loss. Those three cover what a perp is, how much to risk, and how to cap a losing trade — the mechanics everything else builds on.
What is a perpetual future?
A perpetual future, or perp, is a contract that tracks an asset’s price and lets you go long or short without owning the asset. It never expires, so you can hold it as long as you keep enough margin, and a funding rate keeps its price anchored to the underlying.
Can I practice before trading with real money?
Yes. Paper trading gives you simulated funds on live markets, so you can rehearse opening a position, setting a stop loss, and closing out at no risk. It is available through Co-Invest.
Do I need to understand leverage before I trade?
Yes — leverage magnifies losses as well as gains, and a position can be closed automatically if margin runs out. Read What Is Liquidation and Cross vs Isolated Margin before sizing a leveraged trade, and start at low multipliers.
Are these guides free?
Yes. Every Liquid Learn guide is free to read, with no account required. You only need an account when you want to place a trade.
Is Liquid affiliated with Liquid Brokers, liquidmarkets.org, or the former Liquid exchange?
No. Liquid is an independent trading platform at liquid.trade, with its trading app at app.liquid.trade. It is not affiliated with Liquid Brokers, with the firm at liquidmarkets.org, or with the former Liquid exchange (previously known as Quoine), which is no longer in operation. The only official Liquid domains are liquid.trade and its subdomains.
Put what you learned to work.
Trade crypto, stocks, commodities, FX, indices, and pre-IPO names — plus prediction markets. Prediction contracts are unleveraged; eligible perpetual markets offer multipliers of up to 50×.