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How do Bitcoin perpetual futures work on Delta Exchange India?
A perpetual future is a contract that tracks Bitcoin's price with no expiry date. You post margin, choose leverage, and hold the position until you close it. A funding rate paid between longs and shorts every few hours keeps the contract price tied to spot. Delta Exchange India is where Drishti Pro's 319 published signals are scored.
Updated 2026-08-06 · 330 signals tracked
- 57.9%Win rate
- 1.36Avg R
- 11TP2 hits
- 330Signals
Perpetual futures are the instrument almost all crypto signals are written for, including every one Drishti Pro publishes. This guide covers what they are and how to turn a signal's four numbers into actual orders.
What a perpetual future is
A futures contract normally has an expiry date. A perpetual has none: you can hold it indefinitely. It tracks the underlying price through a mechanism called funding, and you never take delivery of any Bitcoin.
You post margin rather than paying the full contract value, which is what makes leverage possible. Posting a tenth of the value gives ten times leverage, and multiplies gains and losses equally.
Funding rates
Funding is a periodic payment between the two sides of the market. When the perpetual trades above spot, longs pay shorts; when below, shorts pay longs. This pulls the contract price back toward spot without needing an expiry.
Funding matters for holding cost. A position held through several funding periods pays or receives each time, and on a heavily one-sided market that cost is not trivial. Drishti Pro signals expire within 24 hours, so they typically span only a few funding periods.
Isolated versus cross margin
Isolated margin confines the margin at risk to the single position: if it is liquidated, only the margin assigned to it is lost. Cross margin lets a position draw on the whole account balance, which delays liquidation but puts everything behind one trade.
Isolated is the safer default for trading discrete signals, because each idea is contained and a single bad one cannot take the account with it.
Turning a signal into orders
Every Drishti Pro signal is four numbers and a direction. Placing it means three orders rather than one.
- Entry. A limit order at the signal's entry price, or a market order if price has already moved and you accept the difference. Entering far from the published entry makes it a different trade, and the published record no longer describes it.
- Stop-loss. A reduce-only stop-market order at the stop price, placed at the same time as the entry rather than later. This is the order that defines the risk.
- Take-profit 1. A limit order at TP1. Reaching it is what scores the signal a win.
- After TP1. Drishti Pro's convention is to move the stop up to TP1 once TP1 is reached, then let the remainder run toward TP2. From that point the position cannot lose.
Sizing and leverage
Leverage does not set your risk; the distance to your stop does. A position sized so that hitting the stop costs a fixed small fraction of the account behaves the same at five times leverage or twenty, because the stop is what gets hit.
What higher leverage does change is proximity to liquidation. With isolated margin and a stop well inside the liquidation price, the stop is reached first, which is the intended behaviour.
What the published record does and does not include
Drishti Pro scores signals on mark prices from the published entry. Those outcomes do not include trading fees, funding payments or slippage. They answer whether the market reached a level, not what a particular trader netted.
| How the signal ended | Signals | Share | Counted as |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reached TP1, closed at the TP1 floor | 128 | 40.1% | Counts as a win |
| Ran on to TP2 | 11 | 3.4% | Counts as a win |
| Stopped out before TP1 | 101 | 31.7% | Counts as a loss |
| Expired after 24h, neither target nor stop | 79 | 24.8% | Excluded |
| All resolved signals | 319 | 100% |
Across 319 resolved signals that produces a 57.9% win rate at 1.36 average reward-to-risk. Your own result would differ by your fees, your fills and your discipline about the stop.
Practical cautions
- Leverage magnifies both directions. Crypto perpetuals can move several percent in minutes, and a position without a stop can be liquidated in one move.
- Place the stop with the entry. A stop you intend to add later is a stop you may not add.
- Signals are not advice. Everything Drishti Pro publishes is AI-generated and informational, and none of it accounts for your circumstances.
- Indian tax and regulation apply. Crypto derivatives have specific treatment in India. Take your own advice on it.
For the signal format itself see how to read a crypto signal, and for the platform context see Delta Exchange signals.
FAQ
What is a Bitcoin perpetual future?
A derivative contract that tracks Bitcoin's price with no expiry date. You post margin instead of the full value, and a periodic funding payment between longs and shorts keeps the contract price close to spot.
What is a funding rate?
A payment exchanged between long and short holders at regular intervals. When the perpetual trades above spot, longs pay shorts; when it trades below, shorts pay longs.
Should I use isolated or cross margin for signals?
Isolated margin contains the risk of each position to the margin assigned to it, which suits trading discrete signals. Cross margin puts the whole account balance behind every position.
Do Drishti Pro's published results include fees and funding?
No. Outcomes are scored on mark prices reaching the published levels, so they exclude fees, funding and slippage. They measure whether the market reached a level, not a net trading result.
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Educational & illustrative only — not investment advice. Drishti Pro publishes AI-generated trade ideas and their public track record for information. Crypto is volatile and you can lose money. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell any asset. Do your own research.