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Plain explanations of the ideas behind AxiPivot's tools. For analysis, not for trading.

Crypto portfolio diversification: by sector, not by count

Why twenty altcoins can still be one bet: correlation in crypto, sector and size buckets, volatility-aware weights and sector caps.

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Funding rate in crypto: what it tells you

How funding on perpetual futures works, who pays whom, what it costs to hold a leveraged position and how to read extreme funding.

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Bitcoin dominance: what it shows and how to read it

Why classic BTC.D counts stablecoins, how to build a clean dominance chart on TradingView and how to read dominance together with bitcoin's price.

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Altcoin season: how to tell when it starts

What an altcoin season is, how the Altcoin Season Index measures it, why it lags, and which signals show money moving from bitcoin into altcoins.

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Bitcoin volatility index after BVOL24H: how to measure it now

What BitMEX .BVOL24H measured, why it stopped when BitMEX closed in September 2026, and how to track bitcoin's realized volatility today: the formula, typical values and how to read them.

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How to calculate position size with leverage

Position size comes from the risk you accept and the distance to your stop, not from leverage. The formula, a worked example, scaled entries, several take-profits and the liquidation check.

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Capital rotation in crypto: from bitcoin to altcoins and back

How money usually moves through the crypto market — bitcoin, ether, large caps, small caps — which signals people watch, why the cycle is not a law, and how to apply the idea to your own portfolio.

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Rebalancing a crypto portfolio: when and how

Rebalancing by calendar or by threshold, target weights and sector caps, the costs to keep in mind — and why in crypto it often helps to look at the room a position has left, not only at its weight.

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Realized vs implied volatility: AXiV and DVOL

Realized volatility measures how much the price has moved; implied volatility is what the options market expects. How each is computed, how to compare daily and annualised numbers, and what it means when they diverge.

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Reading one signal on three timeframes

Why a signal on a 4-hour chart means little on its own, how to read timeframes from the largest down, what agreement and disagreement between them say — and how long a signal stays relevant.

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