Leverage
By CoinGecko | Updated on Mar 03, 2020
It is an investment strategy to gain potential return of the investment by borrowing the money. For example, you could loan from an exchange to conduct a margin trading, where you leverage your positions by buying asset at a low price (with the borrowed money) and sell them at a higher price.
Related Terms
Bakkt
Bakkt is a company developed by the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), owner of the New York Stock Exchange. It specializes in Futures/Options contracts for cryptocurrencies.
Market Order / Market Buy / Market Sell
A market order is a buy or sell order of stocks or cryptocurrency at the best price available in the current market as soon as possible.
MicroBitcoin (uBTC)
One millionth of a bitcoin or 0.000001 of a bitcoin. Microbitcoin is the abbreviation of uBTC and often misunderstood as the fork of Bitcoin.
Market capitalization (market cap)
In Crypto, market cap is measured by multiplication of the circulating supply of tokens or currency and its current price
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