Lighter Docs
  • About Lighter
    • Introduction
    • API Docs (Coming Soon)
    • Whitepaper
    • Technical Architecture (Coming Soon)
  • Perpetual Futures
    • Contract Specifications
    • Order Types and Matching
    • Fair Price Marking
    • PnL And Total Account Value
    • Liquidations & Insurance Fund
    • Funding
    • Fees
    • Self-Trade Prevention
    • Sub-Accounts and API Keys
    • Public Pools
  • Points Program
  • security
    • Security Audits
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  1. Perpetual Futures

Self-Trade Prevention

Lighter imposes a self-trade prevention mechanism. Trades between the same account cancel the resting order (maker) instead of executing the respective trade. Without this mechanism, self-trades would result in no position change and fees being paid unnecessarily.

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Last updated 10 months ago