CoinTech2u Academy

US stock perpetual futures let you trade the price movement of US stock instruments like Tesla and Nvidia directly with USDT on a crypto exchange — long or short, leverage available, no expiry date. This article lays out the mechanics and boundaries: a six-point comparison against buying stocks directly (ownership, profit direction, account and funding, trading hours, worst case, cost of holding); three key differences from traditional futures and options (no expiry so no rolling positions, the barrier to entry, and closed-loop USDT settlement on-exchange); how the funding rate anchors the contract price near the stock price and why it's the most overlooked cost of holding long-term; and why being tradeable during market closures is a double-edged draw — no spot anchor means thinner liquidity and news-driven volatility. It closes with a five-item risk checklist (leverage/liquidation, single-stock event risk, funding rate accumulation, closure-hours liquidity, instrument/compliance differences), then explains the CoinTech2u connection: strategies trade through the API in your own exchange account, US stock instruments sit under the TradFi category in the Select Coins panel, and Extreme Series can run on these markets — but pairing a no-per-trade-stop strategy with a high-volatility instrument cuts both ways, so read the Extreme Series risk guide before starting.