What is Market Structure 101?

This Academy lesson teaches market structure 101 for crypto traders — from core definitions to how desks apply it on live perpetual and spot markets.

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Market Structure 101: Academy Preview

Market Structure 101

CEX vs DEX, order books, perpetual futures, spot markets, margin trading, and how crypto exchanges actually work.

What this lesson covers

→Covers market structure with desk-ready framing and examples.
→Covers order book with desk-ready framing and examples.
→Covers perpetual futures with desk-ready framing and examples.

Keywords & desk context

This lesson sits in the Trading Foundations module. Traders use it to connect market structure, order book, perpetual futures, spot to live execution on CEX perpetuals and on-chain markets.

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