Most trading fee calculators show you two numbers: the dollar amount and the percentage of notional. Both are correct. Neither is useful. Here's the problem. Say you're trading Bitcoin perpetuals on Bybit. Taker fee is 0.055% each side. You buy $10,000 notional. Entry fee: $5.50 Exit fee: $5.50 Round trip: $11.00 Does that matter? Impossible to say without knowing one more number: how much are you
I am a first-year CS student and I recently made a decision that most people around me think is unnecessary — I am building a relational database storage engine from scratch in raw C++, with zero STL dependency. No std::vector. No std::string. No iostream. Nothing. The Problem With How I Was Learning For a long time I was writing code that worked but I had no idea why it worked. I used abstraction