Spot Trading
Buying and selling the actual asset for immediate settlement — no leverage, no expiry, no liquidation.
Spot trading exchanges money for the asset itself, settled now: buy 0.1 BTC, own 0.1 BTC — withdrawable, holdable for a decade. It contrasts with derivatives (futures, options, perpetuals), which trade contracts about price, usually with leverage and liquidation risk.
Spot’s virtue is bounded downside: the worst case is the asset’s price, never a margin call, and time is never your enemy the way funding costs make it for leveraged positions. Every price on our screener is a spot price. For anyone not trading professionally, spot plus patience is the strategy that survives contact with volatility.