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Pionex Futures

What are Makers and Takers?

The market consists of Makers and Takers: Maker: Orders that are placed on the orderbook, waiting for execution passively. Taker: Orders that actively execute immediately with orders on the orderbook. Makers increase the amount of orders on the orderbook, while…

Funding Fee

The funding fee mechanism anchors the trading price of perpetual contracts to the spot price of the underlying asset. Funding Fee = Positional Value * Funding Rate Assuming funding payments occur every 8 hours: The funding fee is directly exchanged…

Mark Price

Mark price refers to the estimated true value of futures contracts. It takes into account the fair value of an asset to avoid unnecessary liquidations during periods of market volatility. Perpetual futures contracts use mark price as the trigger condition…

Index Price

The index price represents the market consensus price of the underlying asset (the corresponding spot of the futures). It is derived from the weighted average of quotes from multiple spot exchanges, including Pionex, Binance, Bitfinex, Gate.io, OKX, Coinbase, Huobi, and…

TP/SL

To use TP/SL described in this article, please update your app to version 2.1.6.7 or above (you can check the version in “Settings -> About”). The TP/SL (Take Profit/Stop Loss) orders support two modes: Entire position: When the trigger price…