Futures
Access hundreds of perpetual contracts
TradFi
Gold
One platform for global traditional assets
Options
Hot
Trade European-style vanilla options
Unified Account
Maximize your capital efficiency
Demo Trading
Introduction to Futures Trading
Learn the basics of futures trading
Futures Events
Join events to earn rewards
Demo Trading
Use virtual funds to practice risk-free trading
Launch
CandyDrop
Collect candies to earn airdrops
Launchpool
Quick staking, earn potential new tokens
HODLer Airdrop
Hold GT and get massive airdrops for free
Pre-IPOs
Unlock full access to global stock IPOs
Alpha Points
Trade on-chain assets and earn airdrops
Futures Points
Earn futures points and claim airdrop rewards
Promotions
AI
Gate AI
Your all-in-one conversational AI partner
Gate AI Bot
Use Gate AI directly in your social App
GateClaw
Gate Blue Lobster, ready to go
Gate for AI Agent
AI infrastructure, Gate MCP, Skills, and CLI
Gate Skills Hub
10K+ Skills
From office tasks to trading, the all-in-one skill hub makes AI even more useful.
GateRouter
Smartly choose from 40+ AI models, with 0% extra fees
Recently, while checking the market on the exchange, I noticed that many beginners don't quite understand those numerical units.
So I’ve organized some common counting methods to help everyone avoid confusion when viewing market data.
Starting with the basics. What is 1K? It’s 1k, which should be easy to understand.
Then moving up, 1M represents 1 million, equivalent to 1k of 1K.
Further up is 1E, which is 100 million—already a sizable number.
1B is 1 billion, and a step higher is 1T, which is a trillion—this scale usually only appears when discussing the entire market or large projects.
Actually, this counting system is universal in exchanges, market software, and various financial data, so mastering these units will greatly help in reading charts.
Especially when looking at trading volume, market cap, or on-chain data—if you don’t understand what 1K equals, it’s easy to misinterpret the numbers, leading to incorrect judgments.
Next time you see these units, just apply them directly.
The more you see them, the more familiar you’ll become—no need to memorize them by rote.