Market analysis, product updates, and trading strategies from the Blockcircle team.
Everyone learns the Sharpe ratio formula. Fewer people understand what makes a good one, what distorts it, and why comparing Sharpe ratios across different strategies requires more care than most realize.
When an exchange fails, most customers become unsecured creditors and get paid at petition-date prices, years later. Here is how the claims process actually works and how to limit your exposure before trouble.
Airline pilots use checklists for a reason: they prevent errors of omission under pressure. Trading checklists serve the same function, ensuring you evaluate every relevant factor before committing capital.
The cross-currency basis is a free, boring FX plumbing number that turns sharply negative when the world runs short of dollars, often before the DXY or crypto react.
Circulating, total, and max supply measure different things, and aggregators disagree on the first one. How to read all three and use the circulating-to-max ratio as a fast dilution screen.
No single indicator reliably calls recessions. But when multiple independent indicators start flashing simultaneously, the probability of a false signal drops dramatically.
Auto-compounding vaults quote a higher APY than the farm underneath, but the uplift comes from compounding frequency, gas, and fees. Here is when the vault actually wins.
Manual market research does not scale. Every hour spent pulling data from websites and formatting spreadsheets is an hour not spent on analysis. Automating the collection frees you to focus on the thinking.
A plain explanation of what trading bots actually do, the difference between signal, execution, and portfolio bots, and an honest test for whether your strategy is even automatable.
Systematic and discretionary approaches are often presented as opposites, but the best practitioners blend elements of both. Understanding the strengths and weaknesses of each helps you find the right mix.
How Kalshi event contracts actually work, from setup to settlement, and the one fee-formula quirk that quietly decides whether a small edge is even worth trading.