# Introduction Financial speculation has evolved far beyond simple buy-and-sell price movements. Today’s traders want tools that allow them to express their conviction not just on the *current* market price, but on **what they believe will happen next**. They want to trade outcomes, global events, decision impacts, information shifts, and future realities — not just candle charts. However, the current crypto infrastructure only offers narrow and limited choices. * **Spot trading** remains slow and inefficient for profit-taking. Value only changes when price changes, so capital sits idle. * **Leverage futures trading** exists, but it is restricted almost entirely to asset price speculation — BTC, ETH, SOL etc — and does not support real-world future events. * **Prediction markets** tried to solve this, but they remain primitive: they are mostly binary (yes/no), they lack leverage, they have low liquidity, and trading feels more like betting than strategic trading. There is **no unified platform** where users can perform high-conviction, leveraged trading on future outcomes. This is the core gap in the market. **IOTrader is built to fill this gap.**\ IOTrader introduces a completely new class of trading primitive known as **Leveraged Prediction Markets**. This is a platform where users don’t just speculate on existing prices — they speculate on **future states**, and amplify their conviction using leverage. This creates a more expressive, more powerful trading environment where capital is deployed based on intelligence, information, and predictions not just historical price charts. IOTrader enables traders to convert **belief into position**, **information into edge**, and **future into profit**, with instant on-chain settlement and transparent execution. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://iotrader.gitbook.io/iotrader-docs/introduction.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.