A Binance referral code can reduce the cost of trading.

But the more interesting metric is cost-to-alpha.

If a strategy generates $100 of gross edge but requires $30 in Binance Spot trading fees, spread, slippage, and execution impact to capture it, 30% of the economic opportunity disappeared during implementation.

Now compare that with a strategy generating $80 of gross edge while requiring only $8 to execute.

The second strategy produces less before costs, yet preserves far more of what it discovers.

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This is why gross return alone is an incomplete measure of trading quality.

Finding more alpha is valuable.

Needing less friction to capture it is often the stronger system.