Strike guides
Learn Strike from zero
Plain-English guides to Strike Finance, written by someone who uses it: what a perp is, what leverage does, how liquidation works, and how a first small trade goes. Each guide opens inside the drivable ecosystem map, at the place it is about.
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Start here · 1 of 5What is Strike? A plain-English guide to the exchangeWhat you can trade on Strike, how copy trading works, who it is for, and how a first visit goes, in plain words for people who have never traded a perp.Published 3 Nov 2026
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Start here · 2 of 5What is a perp? Perpetual futures explained in plain EnglishA perpetual future follows a price and never expires. What that means, how hourly funding keeps it close to the real price, and how to find a market on Strike.Published 3 Nov 2026
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Start here · 3 of 5Long, short and leverage: what 2x, 10x and 20x really meanGoing long or short on Strike, what leverage really multiplies, how the same 5% move plays out at 2x, 10x and 20x, and the cross and isolated margin modes.Published 3 Nov 2026
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Start here · 4 of 5Liquidation, and how to avoid it: a plain-English guideWhat the liquidation price is, why leverage pulls it closer, how Strike closes a position in stages, and the habits that keep a first trade well clear of it.Published 3 Nov 2026
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Start here · 5 of 5Your first trade on Strike: fund, buy, set a stop, closeA real $10 trade on Strike from start to finish: moving funds, placing a market order at 1x, attaching a stop-loss, and closing it, with every screen shown.Published 3 Nov 2026