The $1.35 Floor: How Extreme Negative Funding Is Priming XRP For A High-Veloc...
XRP recorded a sharp rebound of roughly 5% as the broader crypto market experienced a brief wave of relief following weeks of persistent volatility. The move comes after a difficult February for digital assets, a period defined by escalating geopolitical tensions and a macroeconomic environment that has continued to deteriorate. Despite these pressures, several large-cap altcoins have demonstrated relative resilience, with XRP among the assets managing to stabilize near key technical levels. Related Reading: The Quiet Accumulation: 13,500 Bitcoin Leaving Binance Signals A Strategic Whale....
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Celebrity traders on Twitter frequently cite negative funding rates as a Bitcoin buy signal, but does data support this point of view? Perpetual contracts, also known as inverse swaps, have an embedded rate usually charged every eight hours. This fee ensures there are no exchange risk imbalances. Even though buyers' and sellers' open interest is matched at all times, leverage can vary, and when buyers (longs) are demanding more leverage, the funding rate turns positive. Thus, they are the ones paying the fees to the sellers (shorts).However, the opposite situation occurs when shorts....
Data shows the Bitcoin Funding Rate has remained negative during the latest price rally, a sign that short behavior is dominant. Bitcoin Funding Rates Are Red At The Moment In a new post on X, on-chain analyst Checkmate has talked about the trend in the Funding Rate of Bitcoin. The “Funding Rate” refers to an […]
On-chain data shows the Bitcoin funding rates have mostly remained negative for more than a week now. If past trend is anything to go by, this may mean that a bottom could be near. Bitcoin Funding Rates Have Now Remained Mostly Negative For More Than Seven Days As pointed out by an analyst in a CryptoQuant post, the Bitcoin funding rates have been negative in the past week for the most part. The “funding rates” is an indicator that measures the periodic fee Bitcoin futures traders have to pay each other in order to hold onto their positions. When the value of this indicator is....
Is the US Federal Reserve still capable of reducing negative effects from recessions and other economic shocks? Not without drastic measures, says a critic. More Extreme Measures. The answer is yes – at least, according to a paper by the Fed’s own deputy director of its research and statistics division. Closer inspection of the details, however, suggests....
Crypto market sentiment has dropped into the far negative once more. This has been one in the making ever since the Terra crash had begun and investors had scrambled to leave the market. A culmination of this and speculations that the market is headed into one of the longest bear trends ever recorded has now seen sentiment fall to levels not recorded since 2020. In The Extreme Fear Region Now, the crypto market sentiment has not been positive for a while. Most of the last two months have been spent in the fear territory and April had closed out in extreme fear. Nevertheless, the scores on....