--- title: 'How to Trade Crypto Futures with Leverage: Complete Guide' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=8nZ3S5jb5mg' video_id: '8nZ3S5jb5mg' date: 2026-07-12 duration_sec: 883 --- # How to Trade Crypto Futures with Leverage: Complete Guide > Source: [How to Trade Crypto Futures with Leverage: Complete Guide](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8nZ3S5jb5mg) ## Summary This video provides a detailed tutorial on trading cryptocurrency futures with leverage, covering account setup, trade calculation, and execution on the Gate exchange. The presenter demonstrates both manual and automated methods for calculating leverage and risk, and promotes a custom indicator for simplifying the process. ### Key Points - **Introduction to Leverage Trading** [00:02] — The video aims to teach how to trade with leverage in cryptocurrency futures, including calculating leverage and setting up trades. - **Choosing an Exchange** [00:47] — Gate exchange is recommended over Binance and Bybit due to lower fees and a wide asset list. A referral link offers 20% cashback. - **Deposit and Transfer Process** [01:30] — Deposit via Pix (bank transfer) in BRL, which converts to USDT. Transfer funds from spot account to futures account. - **Futures Trading Interface** [03:09] — Navigate to the futures section to see balance and execute trades. The presenter uses TradingView for analysis and Gate for execution. - **Setting Up a Trade Example** [04:14] — Using Solana on a 1-hour timeframe, a short trade is planned from an order block. Stop loss and take profit levels are identified. - **Manual Leverage Calculation** [05:11] — To risk $30 with a 1.95% stop loss, divide 50 by the stop percentage (1.95) to get leverage ~25.64x. Enter double the risk ($60) as margin. - **Executing the Manual Trade** [08:10] — Set isolated margin, leverage 25.64x, entry type to USDT cost, enter $60, limit entry price, stop loss, and take profit. - **Automated Method with Indicator** [10:07] — A custom indicator calculates everything automatically. Input capital, risk amount, direction, entry price, and stop loss; it outputs leverage and quantity. - **Executing with Indicator** [12:25] — Use the indicator's recommended quantity (e.g., 6.77 Solanas) and leverage (3x) to place the trade on Gate. - **Getting the Indicator** [13:32] — Open a Gate account via the link, follow the presenter on Instagram (@brunorrocharader), and send the word 'secret' to receive free access. ### Conclusion The video simplifies leverage trading by offering both manual and automated methods, with a free indicator to streamline calculations. It emphasizes using the Gate exchange for lower fees and provides a step-by-step guide for executing futures trades. ## Transcript Today you will learn once and for all how to trade with leverage in the cryptocurrency futures market. I'm going to break down for you how to actually operate in practice, how to calculate your leverage, and how to set up a trade in the futures market. Everything is extremely detailed for you. I know that many traders have these questions. When trading cryptocurrencies, leverage, how many coins to use, etc., are all important factors. So, I'm here to simplify your life. So, without further ado, let's get to the content. The first step of all is to be trading on a good cryptocurrency exchange. There are several exchanges on the market today, Binance and By are the biggest ones, right? But there is one brokerage firm that I chose to trade with, and that's Gate brokerage. The Gate exchange will provide you with a very large list of assets for you to trade with much more affordable fees than Binance and Bybit. Trading on Binance through By Bit has been quite expensive lately, actually. That's why I'm using the gate. And I'll leave the registration link for the brokerage firm in the description of this video for you all. And by opening your account through the link in the video description, you 'll receive some exclusive gifts and cashback when trading in the futures market. That's right, 20% cashback. Then, open your account using the link in the description. account creation and verification process, the That's a very simple thing, right? You're going to come here to make a deposit, then you're going to choose here, see, bank transfer. And bank transfer is just a name, okay? But it's Pix. Here inside, look, you're going to choose the currency, BRL. You will enter the amount you want to deposit here, and it will show you your balance in USDT. So let's say you want to deposit R$250 here. It will show you your balance in It will show you your balance in USDT, and then you can convert it to Pix here. You can choose this quick setup or low fee, and then all you have to do is go for it and make your deposit. Now, in order for you to operate in the futures market, which is what we really want , you're going to follow this mini step-by- step guide here. When your deposit arrives at the brokerage, it will appear here in your spot account. You can find this account by going up here to assets, then to spot account. You need to transfer the money that's in your Esports account to your futures account. And all of this is done very simply, okay? You're going to click here on transfer, you're going to choose here, from sport to perpetual contract. You will choose the USDT currency, enter your entire balance here, or at least the amount of capital you want to allocate for trading in the futures market, and click here to confirm in order to send this money. With that done, we can now move on to the main part, which is trading in the just go up here, click on "futures," and you'll be taken to this screen here. As you can see, I have $0.500 in my futures account, which is practically almost R$ 50,000. This is the capital I use today to carry out my operations. If you completed the account transfer process to future accounts, then your updated balance will appear here. You can operate it. Now let's move on to setting up your operation. Within the Gate brokerage itself, you have a TradingView platform that allows you to perform your analyses. Or you can do it the way I do, which is to use TradingView externally to analyze the market. Then you enter here at the gate just to execute your operation. It's up to you to decide. Beauty? But now we need to find an operation to simulate a trade here, so we can teach you how to calculate want to know how to set up this trade, how to put this operation together in practice. And that's what we're going to do. Let's go, everyone. Solana cryptocurrency here, right? On the 1-hour timeframe, it's falling, making a downward movement here, right? Let's say you want to sell using this order block here, okay? I'm not going to go into too much operational strategy here because that 's not the focus of this video. If you want to learn operational strategy, there are several other videos about how to calculate the trade. Let's suppose you want to grab a sale in this seller order block here, at Solana. So here's this small area with So here's this small area with supply, and you want to set up your supply, and you want to set up your sales operation in this area. There are now two ways to calculate this operation. The most complex way, which because you have to do some calculations, but it's basic stuff. And it has the calculations, but it's basic stuff. And it has the fastest and most automated method. First, I'll complex and tedious way, then the more automated way. Then you'll decide which one you want to follow. Beauty? Come with me here. Just look. Okay, now that you have this possible operation here, right? Because you believe the market will go up, touch this region, and then fall, what do you need right now? You need to configure your trading settings. So, where are you going to sell, where are going to place your take profit? So I'm going to come here to the short position operation, which is the selling position, right? A long position is a buying operation. I'm going to click up here and place my stop loss where I think I should exit this trade, right? Oh, a little stop here this trade, right? Oh, a little stop here would be reasonably acceptable, and a target here at the back of the movement, look. Ready. I have a trade here that is 4.13 times my risk. This is the trade I want to set up, okay? Let's suppose. Beauty? Now, what are you going to do? Pay close attention. Let's assume that Pay close attention. Let's assume that in this operation you want to risk You looked at this trade and thought, "Man, my acceptable risk for "Man, my acceptable risk for this trade is $30. What's the process here?" If leverage didn't exist, you'd have to do the following. Look , you see that your stop loss here , you see that your stop loss here is 1.95%, almost 2%, right? Let's round it to 2%. What would be the amount you'd What would be the amount you'd risk if it went against 2%, $3? 2% of 1500 risk if it went against 2%, $3? 2% of 1500 is 30. So you'd need $0.00 to make this trade, but thanks to leverage you don't need to do that. You just enter with a value and leverage it, and that leveraged value will represent those $0.00. So you don't need all that capital to trade. How so? Come with me. Look, your stop loss isn't 1.95%. So you need to do the following calculation, very simple. You'll take the calculator and divide the number 50 by your technical stop. Every trade needs a technical stop. You have to enter In a trade, already knowing where your stop loss will be, you'll take the number 50 and divide it by your technical stop loss. In this case , 50 divided by , 50 divided by 1.95 equals 25.64. That is, you've already found your leverage here. You need to leverage 25.64 here. You need to leverage 25.64 times. Now you'll come here with me and put here, always keeping the margin isolated. Okay? You'll change isolated. Okay? You'll change the leverage above to 25.64. you have to enter with double what you want to risk in this operation as you want to risk in this operation as margin. That is, if you take 60 here, which is double what you want to risk, in this case 30, and leverage 25.64 times, that value will be $500. Now we just need to come here and change the type of entry. It won't be in currency, it will be entry. It won't be in currency, it will be in value, in dollars. And we'll in value, in dollars. And we'll put 60 here now. Now you'll do the following: you 'll click... Here in the corner, change the currency to USDT cost. Now you're going to put here double the amount you want to risk. In this case, if you want to risk $3, double 30 is 60. You 'll put 60 here. And now you're going to put the limit entry price, right? You're not going to enter at market price, you're always going to enter hanging. That is, your market comes to buy, you'll be triggered. That's how a limit operation works. You're going to put the entry price here , in this case 221.40. You're going to put your stop loss here below . In this case, it's this price here, 225.72. Or you can double-click here and copy this stop level here, and put it here in the stop loss SL. Look, you'll be risking 25.92 here. It will always round up, a little down, okay? But it will always stay around the average. ...of what you really want to risk. And then your take profit, you'll put it here, look, at 203.55. You put it here, look, you're risking put it here, look, you're risking 25.92 to seek a profit of 107, 25.92 to seek a profit of 107, exactly 4.13 times your risk. exactly 4.13 times your risk. Now, if you don't want to go through Now, if you don't want to go through this whole process of having to calculate every single detail , get the calculator, divide 50 by I don't know what, because that 's the most complex way, as I told you. Now comes the easier, told you. Now comes the easier, automated and simplified way for you. I have good news. I developed an indicator that will calculate all this an indicator that will calculate all this automatically. To make this process easier, you'll also need to use looking at the same currency we were looking at on Gate, which is the Solana cryptocurrency. And I already have my indicator positioned. What am I going to do here, guys? I'm going to find my trade. Look, it was in this order block here, this Okay, so I'm a seller, right? I was here wanting to execute my sell operation. It's more or less the operation here, with a 1.95% stop, right? Look, the target is more or less down here. Great. What am down here. Great. What am I going to do here? I'm going to double-click on the indicator, I'm going to put in how much capital I have, right? how much capital I have, right? Let's suppose I have $00 and I want to risk 30 on this trade. I'm going to put in the direction of the trade, whether it going to put in the direction of the trade, whether it 's a buy or sell trade. I'm going to put in the entry price. So, in this case, 221.51. Let's put in the trade number. Stop loss price. The stop loss is here at 225.77. 225.77. 225.77. Now I'm going to click OK. And look how wonderful. It already shows me absolutely absolutely everything I need to do to be able to execute this operation. But now we 're going to do it differently with the indicator. With the indicator, instead of entering with the margin in USDT, I'm going to... Enter the amount of cryptocurrency. So, look, it's saying I should look, it's saying I should enter with 6.77 Solanas sold. So let's put this operation here now on the Gate exchange. The entry price here I did a little differently, right? It was at 221.51. So let's update it here, see. 221.51. The entry type is not by USDT but by amount of coins. So I'm going to sell here, see, 6.77 Solanas. It doesn't let me put a fractional value, right? So we can round up a little and put seven Solanas. Let's reduce the leverage here to 3x, which is what the indicator recommended. Now let's the indicator recommended. Now let's put the stop loss here at 225.83. There at 225.83 and it's at 30 for the stop. This one even came closer to what I was really wanting to use, right? And now here the take profit. Just put it down there, right? In the region of 200. And, look, 203.61. There, wonderful. Now it's all joy, just click here and hang the operation. The indicator will make everything much wondering, Bruno, how do I get access to this indicator? I'll tell you what you need to do to access the indicator. The first step you must take is to open your account with the Gate broker, using the link that is below in the description of this video. The second step is that you will follow me on my Instagram, on my official profile, which is the one that is appearing, @brunorrocharader. You need to follow me. You will click on send a message and you will on send a message and you will write the word secret. That's it. Write the word secret and send it to me and I will send you the step-by-step instructions. It's simple, you won't have to pay me anything, it's free. So send it there and I will send you access to the indicator. And that was today's video. I hope you enjoyed it. Don't forget to subscribe to the channel so you don't miss the next content. And I want to see you all trading on cryptocurrency futures market you all trading on cryptocurrency futures market .