Rising Bitcoin futures funding rate signals traders expect $50,000 BTC
Bitcoin perpetual futures buyers are paying a 5.4% weekly funding rate to keep their positions open, but is this sustainable? Today Bitcoin (BTC) price rallied to a new all-time high at $44,900 shortly after Tesla announced a $1.5 billion investment. This event triggered $555 million worth of shorts to be liquidated in two hours and it happened as Bitcoin futures open interest reached $13.7 billion, which is just 3% below its historical high.These price moves drastically increased the cost of carrying long positions, mainly for those using perpetual futures. This indicator raised a yellow....
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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....
As Bitcoin rallies past $57k, Quant explains using on-chain analysis why the cryptocurrency may see a pullback here. Bitcoin Funding Rate And Futures Open Interest Show Rising Values As explained by an analyst in a CryptoQuant post, some BTC indicators are showing values that have historically signaled that a correction could be coming soon. The first metric of relevance is the Bitcoin funding rate, which is defined as the periodic payment that futures contract traders have to pay. Positive values imply most traders are bullish and long traders are paying this fee to short traders. While....
Analysts frequently correlate a high perpetual futures funding rate with market crashes, but is this the best way to analyze the metric? Futures contracts trading has grown immensely over the past year, and proof of this comes from the total rise in open interest. Open interest is the total number of outstanding contracts, and the figure has risen from $3.9 billion to the current $21.5 billion in six months, a 450% increase.Sometimes traders assume that a high or low funding rate and soaring open interest indicate a bullish market, but as Cointelegraph has explained before, this is not the....
A quant has explained how the Bitcoin funding rate (72 hour) may be able to correctly signal tops and bottoms in the price of the crypto. Bitcoin Funding Rate May Be Able To Indicate Tops And Bottoms In The Market As explained by an analyst in a CryptoQuant post, the 72-hour version of the funding rate looks to have been effective at pointing out tops and bottoms in the BTC market. The “funding rate” is the periodic payment that Bitcoin futures traders (either long or short) have to make between each other. When the value of this metric is negative, it means shorts are paying a....
The funding rate of Bitcoin dropped to a level unseen since September 2020, signaling fear in the market. The funding rate of Bitcoin (BTC) has dropped to levels not seen since September 2020 as the price of Bitcoin plummeted below $52,000 on April 18. Quant trader and analyst Lex Moskovski says it shows fear has returned to the market.According to the data from Glassnode, the average Bitcoin futures funding rate across all exchange dropped to as low as around -0.03% on SundayWhat is funding rate and why does it dropping matter?Bitcoin futures exchanges use a mechanism called "funding" to....