Bitget U.S. Stock Trading Guide

A Letter from the CEO

Dear Esteemed U.S. Stock Trader!

From now on, you are no longer just a "crypto trader"; you are an esteemed U.S. stock trader. To all respected Nasdaq & NYSE Decentralized Finance Investment Research Advisory Analysts, Chicago Futures Exchange traders, and U.S. stock traders, may the Bitget U.S. Stock Trading Guide illuminate the trading path for every esteemed U.S. stock trader!

Bitget CEO

Gracy Chen

Table of Contents

Preface

Unit 1: Introduction to Bitget Stock Products

￮1.1 What are Stock Tokens

￮1.2 What are Stock Perpetual Contracts

￮1.3 Why Choose Bitget

Unit 2: Placing Your First Bitget Stock Token & Stock Contract Trade

￮2.1 Introduction to the Bitget Stock Market Section

￮2.2 How to Place Your First Stock Token Trade

￮2.3 How to Place Your First Stock Contract Trade

Unit 3: Beginner Strategies

￮3.1 Earnings Season Strategy

￮3.2 Fundamental Analysis Strategy

￮3.3 Beginner Technical Indicators

Unit 4: Intermediate Strategies

￮4.1 Stock Contract Carry Trade Concepts

￮4.2 Crypto Asset + Stock Contract Correlation Trading

￮4.3 Intermediate Technical Indicators

Unit 5: Advanced Strategies

￮5.1 Macro Trading Strategy

￮5.2 Contract Risk Management

Appendix

Preface

The boundary between the crypto market and traditional finance is being redefined.

With the emergence of stock tokens and stock perpetual contracts, traditional assets like U.S. stocks are no longer confined to Wall Street's trading hours but have entered the trading landscape of the crypto world—allowing traders to participate in the price fluctuations and thematic trends of global leading companies within a single account, priced in USDT, using familiar crypto trading methods.

This is precisely the experience Bitget is building under its Universal Exchange (UEX) framework:

Bridging crypto with global assets, bringing market opportunities originally scattered across different systems back into a unified trading logic.

However, alongside these opportunities come new product structures, trading mechanisms, and sources of risk.

Stock tokens and stock perpetual contracts differ from both spot crypto assets and traditional securities trading, placing higher demands on understanding and execution.

Based on this, we have compiled this "Bitget U.S. Stock Trading Guide," aiming to help traders at different stages systematically master the operational pathways, risk control methods, and practical trading concepts for trading stock tokens and stock perpetual contracts on Bitget, enabling you not only to know how to participate but also to understand how to find opportunities amidst volatility.

Unit 1: Introduction to Bitget Stock Products

1.1 What are Stock Tokens

Definition

Stock tokens are tokenized products issued and traded on crypto platforms, with their price referencing a specific listed company's stock. Their purpose is to allow users to participate in the price fluctuations of traditional stocks using a crypto account and stablecoins like USDT for pricing.

Price Pegging

The stock tokens supported by Bitget are issued by Ondo Finance, currently the industry-leading RWA platform. According to Ondo's current pegging mechanism, when a user places an order to buy $100 worth of stock tokens, Ondo purchases $100 worth of the corresponding stock in the stock market (e.g., Nasdaq) and mints the stock tokens on-chain. When the user sells, Ondo immediately burns the stock tokens and sells the stock in the stock market. This achieves a 1:1 peg between the stock token and the underlying stock.

Ondo regularly publishes audit reports, which can be viewed in the "Token Holder Assurance" section on the asset product details page of Ondo Global Market, for example: https://app.ondo.finance/assets/nvdaon

Trading Hours

Stock tokens trade 24/5; their prices are influenced by U.S. stock regular/pre-market/after-hours sessions.

Bitget Stock Token Supported Trading Pairs (As of December 2025)

•Bitget currently supports 200+ stock token trading pairs, including:

￮Tech Giants: Apple (AAPLon), Tesla (TSLAon), Microsoft (MSFTon), Google (GOOGLon), NVIDIA (NVDAon), Meta (METAon), Amazon (AMZNon), and other globally influential tech companies.

￮Crypto-Related Stocks: MicroStrategy (MSTRon), Robinhood (HOODon), Circle (CRCLon), Coinbase (COINon), and other star companies representing the development of the crypto industry.

￮Internationally Renowned Companies & ETFs: Disney (DISon), Netflix (NFLXon), Goldman Sachs (GSon), iShares series ETFs, SPDR S&P 500 ETF, and other quality assets covering consumer, financial, energy, and global indices.

￮Chinese Concept Stocks: JD.com JDon, Futu FUTUon, and other quality Chinese tech companies.

1.2 What are Stock Perpetual Contracts

Definition

Bitget Stock Perpetual Contracts are USDT-margined perpetual contracts based on tokenized U.S. stock asset indices. By tracking the price index of tokenized stocks, they allow you to participate in the price movements of global top-tier companies like Apple and Tesla with zero entry barriers, using the familiar cryptocurrency perpetual contract format.

Three Key Differences from Traditional U.S. Stocks

￮Trading Hours: 24/5 weekly (Monday 00:00 to Saturday 00:00 UTC-4), far exceeding the few hours of daily opening restrictions of traditional U.S. stocks, though with slightly more scheduled breaks than 24/7 crypto contracts.

￮Asset Form: Does not involve holding real stock ownership; it is a synthetic contract based on a tokenized index.

￮Account Opening Process: No complex account opening, identity verification, or cross-border remittances required.

￮Leverage & Direction: Supports two-way trading + high leverage (up to 25x), whereas traditional U.S. stock spot trading typically offers no leverage or very low leverage and makes shorting difficult and inconvenient.

Bitget Stock Contract Supported Trading Pairs (As of December 2025)

Since its launch in September 2025, Bitget's U.S. Stock Perpetual Contracts have rapidly expanded. It currently mainstreamly supports 30+ U.S. stock-related perpetual contracts and continues to add new ones regularly.

￮Individual Stock Perpetual Contracts: TSLAUSDT (Tesla), NVDAUSDT (NVIDIA), AAPLUSDT (Apple), MSTRUSDT (MicroStrategy), METAUSDT (Meta), COINUSDT (Coinbase), etc., covering hot sectors like technology, semiconductors, crypto concepts, and finance.

￮Index Perpetual Contracts: QQQUSDT (Nasdaq-100 Index), other U.S. stock industry/composite index contracts.

Popular trading pairs for stock contracts include: TSLA, NVDA, MSTR, AAPL, META, etc., with cumulative trading volume easily surpassing tens of billions of dollars and liquidity continuously strengthening.

Trading Mechanism and Key Parameters Overview

• Contract Type: USDT-M Perpetual Contract (USDT margin settlement)
• Leverage: 1-25x (adjusted in tiers based on specific underlying; up to 25x for popular individual stocks, 10-25x for some index contracts)
• Margin Mode: Isolated / Cross (beginners are advised to use Isolated first for risk control)
• Funding Rate: Settled every 4 hours (mechanism is the same as regular crypto perpetual contracts; users holding long-term positions need to pay attention to directional costs)
• Trading Hours: Monday 00:00 – Saturday 00:00 (UTC-4), trading is suspended during holidays and underlying market closures
• Minimum Price Movement (Tick Size): Typically 0.01 USDT
• Liquidation Mechanism: Triggered by Mark Price + Protection Fund as a safety net
• Special Note: No opening/closing positions during market closures; significant gap risk may occur when markets reopen; caution is advised when holding positions over the weekend.

1.3 Why Choose Bitget

Compared to traditional U.S. stocks, the core advantages of Bitget's stock features include:

• Round-the-Clock Trading: Continuing the crypto market style, from Monday 00:00 to Saturday 00:00 UTC-4, surpassing traditional U.S. stock opening restrictions, allowing for pre-market positioning.
• Support for Long and Short Positions: Regardless of market bull or bear conditions, users can still profit in both directions through Bitget U.S. Stock Contracts.
• Up to 25x Leverage: Leverage for some popular tech stock contracts can reach up to 25x, with other index contracts flexibly adjustable between 10-25x.
• No Need to Hold Real Stocks: Users can enjoy profits from price movements without holding real stocks. Additionally, Bitget U.S. Stock Contracts have no settlement or expiration dates, allowing positions to be held long-term.
• Transparency and Security: All stock token transaction records are verifiable on-chain, reducing potential opaque operations by traditional intermediaries.
• On-Chain Applications: Stock tokens can be integrated into the DeFi (Decentralized Finance) ecosystem. Users can not only hold them but also use them as collateral for on-chain lending or participate in liquidity mining, thereby unlocking asset liquidity.
• Fee Structure: Bitget periodically launches zero-fee trading events, which are highly attractive to high-frequency stock traders.
• Shared Funds with Spot Account: Bitget now supports a Unified Account. Users do not need to apply for separate additional accounts. Under the unified mode, fund transfers are more convenient and operations are smoother.
• Full Coverage of Popular Stocks: Covers tech giants and crypto-related targets, such as TSLA, NVDA, AAPL, MSTR, META, and other high-heat, high-volatility U.S. stocks, meeting user investment needs.

Which Users Are More Suitable for Participating in Bitget Stock Trading?

Bitget stock trading is suitable for users familiar with crypto contract interfaces, who do not want to open traditional U.S. stock accounts, prefer using leverage, pursue 24/5 trading flexibility, and are aggressive, hybrid users who often trade both crypto and stocks.

1.Investors Bullish or Bearish on U.S. Stocks but Don't Want to Open a U.S. Stock Account

No need for traditional brokerage account opening, no cumbersome KYC processes with overseas brokers, no USD deposits/withdrawals. You can directly trade popular U.S. stocks like Apple, Tesla, NVIDIA, Coinbase using USDT from your wallet.

2.Investors Accustomed to Crypto Trading Interfaces and 24/5 Markets

For cryptocurrency users, the interface, order types (limit/market/conditional), leverage adjustment, position management, and funding rate mechanism are almost identical to BTC/USDT, ETH/USDT perpetual contracts. Near 24/5 trading from Monday to Saturday (suspended during U.S. stock market holidays), much longer than traditional stock market trading hours.

3.Investors Wanting to Amplify U.S. Stock Volatility Returns with Leverage

Leverage up to 25x (10x for some stock index contracts), far higher than the 2-4x margin financing offered by most traditional U.S. stock brokerages. Whether you want to use small capital to capture gains from Tesla or NVIDIA surges, or heavily short high-valuation tech stocks, it can greatly amplify volatility returns.

4.Hybrid Investors Trading Both Cryptocurrencies and Traditional Stocks

With the same account, the same USDT, the same App, and the same interface, you can switch anytime between:

￮Trading contracts on BTC, ETH during sharp rises or falls

￮Switching to NVDA, TSLA, META to catch U.S. stock earnings or tech stock trends

￮Switching back to altcoins or meme coins without cross-platform transfers, greatly improving capital efficiency and operational fluency.

5.Short-Term Traders Hoping to Short High-Valuation Tech Stocks or Capture Short-Term Volatility

Those accustomed to shorting in crypto markets can very conveniently directly short high-valuation stocks like Tesla, NVIDIA, Meta, without facing difficulties in stock borrowing or high borrowing costs. It's also very flexible for short-term trading around earnings, news, and pre-market/after-hours volatility (Note: Funding rates can be high during extreme one-sided trends; pay attention to rate direction when shorting to avoid "funding rate kill").

6.Seasoned Crypto Traders

Much crypto capital is concentrated in BTC and Ethereum, making it susceptible to systemic market risks. Shorting some tech stocks or going long on defensive stocks through U.S. stock perpetual contracts can achieve a certain degree of portfolio hedging.

7.Small-Capital High-Frequency, Quantitative, and Grid Users

Low fees + USDT unified settlement + familiar API interface + relatively high leverage are particularly suitable for players using bots, grid strategies, martingale strategies, etc., for U.S. stock directions.

8.Investors Particularly Interested in the RWA (Real World Assets) Sector

Bitget Stock Contracts are essentially one of the most mature and liquid on-chain RWA derivatives currently available, suitable for users wanting to position early in the RWA sector.

Unit 2: Placing Your First Bitget Stock Trade

2.1 Introduction to the Bitget Stock Section

How to Access the Bitget Stock Section?

1.Update the Bitget App to the latest version. On the home page bottom bar, click [Markets], then click the top tab [Stocks] to enter the Bitget Stock section.

2.Within the Stocks section, diverse data dimensions help users comprehensively understand real-time market conditions and trends across different sectors/concepts, including:

￮Hot Stock Trends – Automatically selects the most popular stock tokens for you.

￮Latest Market News – Quickly understand global market trends within the Bitget App.

￮Hot Concept Classifications – Shows you trends of different concepts to aid your trading decisions.

￮Earnings Calendar – Presents the most critical quarterly time points for stocks in a calendar format.