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Partner @mexc_global|31k on TikTok| Digital Asset Analyst
Sep 1, 2022 8 tweets 3 min read
Ever since the first Bitcoin futures product, derivatives have become a staple in the crypto markets

Degenerates love to use futures to speculate on price

I enjoy using derivative metrics to gauge market sentiment

Here are 4 derivative metrics I use daily 👇 Open Interest (OI)

OI is the number of open futures contracts held by market participants

Essentially, it's a gauge for leverage

• OI⬆️= More leverage in the system
• OI⬇️= Less leverage

To understand whether the market is long or short, we use OI with funding rates Image
Aug 16, 2022 11 tweets 10 min read
To graduate university, my friends had to write a paper to pass their derivatives class

They paid me $50. You know what I wrote about? @dopex_io

🧵Here's how #dopex astonished a Tardfi derivatives professor 👇

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My friends needed to write a final paper for their derivatives class

They knew that I write a lot about Crypto/DeFi. They enlisted my skills

In 2 hours, I wrote them a 6-page paper that Dopex-pilled their professor and got them a 98%