Guides
Understand trading products, follow practical steps, and learn about costs and risks.
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What Are Stock Perpetuals? How Funding Rates Work and How to Calculate Them
How stock perpetuals differ from stock tokens, leverage and liquidation risk, what funding rates mean, how often they settle and how to calculate them, and what to watch when the US market is closed.
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Why Stock Tokens Trade at a Premium or Discount to the Stock
The common reasons a stock token's price differs from the stock: mismatched trading hours, liquidity, shares per token and mint/redeem barriers, and how to use premium data to find a better price.
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Do Stock Tokens Pay Dividends? How xStocks and Ondo Reinvest Them
Stock token dividends are usually reinvested rather than paid in cash. How xStocks, Ondo, bStocks and perpetuals handle dividends, why high-yield tokens look like they trade at a premium, and withholding tax.
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Are Stock Tokens Safe? Issuer, Custody, Venue and Fake Token Risks
Stock token risks link by link: issuer, custodian, venue, smart contracts and fakes, price deviation and regulation, plus leverage risk on perpetuals and how to reduce risk.
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