Research Analysis Examines Why Identical Leveraged Bitcoin Trades Can Produce Very Different Holding Costs Across MarketsCÓRDOBA, Spain, June 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leveraged crypto traders often use regulated spot margin accounts and offshore perpetual futures interchangeably. Both let a trader put on a larger Bitcoin position than their capital would otherwise allow. Both move with the same underlying price. But what it costs to keep the trade open is different in each case and the difference is not just in the amount. In regulated spot margin, the broker charges a fixed borrowing rate set by capital markets. In offshore perpetual futures, traders pay each other: a funding payment whose size shifts every 8 hours depending on which direction most other traders are positioned.
U.S. Crypto Derivatives Traders Checked Risk 2× More Often in 2025, Analysis of 880,000 Setups ShowsCÓRDOBA, Spain, Feb. 23, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- U.S.-based retail crypto derivatives traders checked liquidation risk roughly twice as often as the global average in 2025, according to data from Leverage.Trading, which analyzed roughly 880,000 anonymized pre-trade setups. The pattern indicates traders increasingly shifted into defense mode well ahead of major liquidation events, suggesting early signs of market stress may emerge before forced exits.
