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fees · high-water-mark · fund-operations

A High-Water Mark, Worked to the Penny

Everyone can recite what a high-water mark is. Far fewer can compute one through a drawdown, a mid-period deposit, and a recovery without making the classic mistake that overcharges the investor. Here's the whole calculation, one number at a time.

The Fluxy Team ·

non-custodial · security · education

What "Non-Custodial" Actually Means in Automated Crypto Trading

After every exchange collapse, the same lesson gets re-learned at terrible expense: the risk wasn't the trading, it was the custody. 'Non-custodial' automation means your capital never leaves your own exchange account — and knowing how to verify that claim is the first skill of automated trading.

The Fluxy Team ·

security · api-keys · exchanges

Trade-Only API Keys: Connecting a Bot Without Handing Over Your Money

The single most important checkbox in automated trading is the one you leave unticked: withdrawals. A properly scoped API key lets a bot trade your account but never move a coin out of it — which converts the worst case from 'funds gone' to 'bad trades you can see and stop.'

The Fluxy Team ·

funding-rates · perpetuals · crypto

Funding Rates: The Crypto-Native Yield Hiding in Plain Sight

Every few hours, enormous sums change hands between longs and shorts on crypto perpetual futures. That flow is called funding, and it's one of the most distinctive sources of return in all of crypto — a yield with no equivalent in traditional markets. Here's what funding is, why it exists, and why a fund that ignores it is leaving a whole asset class of strategy on the table.

The Fluxy Team ·

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