September 7, 2026
Most retail backtesting frameworks process historical trades in whatever order the data file lists them — usually just sorted by timestamp. That’s a reasonable assumption on a centralized exchange with…
September 6, 2026
A webhook endpoint that processes any POST request it receives, without checking who actually sent it, is an unauthenticated write path into your system. Anyone who finds the URL can…
September 5, 2026
A plain API key or license string has one structural weakness: it’s just a string. Anyone who has it can use it, from anywhere, on any machine — and license…
September 4, 2026
Short answer: Funding rate arbitrage on Hyperliquid means holding offsetting positions across venues (for example a short perpetual here against a long elsewhere) so price risk cancels while you collect…
September 3, 2026
You can’t buy shares in OpenAI or Anthropic on any public exchange — neither has gone public. But you can trade a synthetic perpetual on Hyperliquid whose price directly tracks…
September 1, 2026
Most “liquidation price” formulas floating around trading communities are simplified approximations — they ignore maintenance margin tiers and the exact per-asset max leverage Hyperliquid actually enforces. Close enough for a…
August 30, 2026
HIP-3 is the Hyperliquid Improvement Proposal that lets third-party “deployers” launch their own perpetual futures markets on top of Hyperliquid’s infrastructure — for almost any underlying asset. This is how…
August 28, 2026
Hyperliquid exposes two public APIs: an info endpoint for read-only market data and an exchange endpoint for signed trading actions. Most tools — bots, dashboards, backtesters — only ever need…
August 27, 2026
A strategy that looks profitable in backtesting and fails immediately in production is one of the most demoralizing experiences in algo trading. The most common cause is not a flawed…
August 26, 2026
Every trade has two sides: passive (limit order, waited in the book) and aggressive (market order, matched immediately). Knowing which side was aggressive is the foundation of order flow analysis…