📚 Crypto Starter Guide

Spot vs. futures, long/short, leverage, liquidation, margin, funding fees, trading fees, stablecoins, and wallets — a dictionary-style rundown of the core terms that trip up anyone new to crypto futures, all in one place.

Crypto exchanges come in two main flavors. There are centralized exchanges (CEX), where you sign up with an ID, and decentralized exchanges (DEX), where you just connect a wallet. Here's a walkthrough of both sign-up flows you can follow from the very start.

How to send coins with MetaMask — step by step, from installation to matching networks, copying the address, gas fees, and confirming the transfer. A typo in the address or a network mismatch can make your coins disappear forever, so always start with a small test transfer.

How to start your first perpetual futures (perp) trade as safely as possible — longs/shorts, leverage, margin, orders, stop-loss/take-profit, liquidation, funding fees, and position sizing, all explained at a beginner's level.

From the structure of a single candle to time frames, volume, support and resistance, trends, and moving averages. A beginner-friendly walkthrough of what charts can tell you and what they can't.

We break down each chart signal you'll see on Baro's screen and its "textbook direction" in beginner-friendly terms. But throughout, we stress one thing: a signal is not a prediction of the future, just a distribution of what happened in the past (a win rate).

From the heat gauge to honest probabilities, win-rate picks, and position alerts — how to read the Baro screen, top to bottom

If you connect a read-only exchange API to Baro, it reads your positions automatically — no manual entry — and pings you on Telegram when things get risky. Here's how to connect it safely and what you gain.