Funding Rates Low After 10K Rally, What This Means For Bitcoin’s Price

Bitcoin has had a rough couple of weeks leading up to this moment and the effects of this are still being felt all across the board. This has seen bitcoin’s price crumble below $30,000 once more. Along with this fall has come some other brutal news for the digital asset. One of these has been the funding rates, whose massive dive has shown increasingly bearish momentum among the largest traders. Funding Rates Take A Dive The Bitcoin funding rates had been in a bit of a lull even as the price of BTC had begun taking its beat-down at the $40,000 level. Mostly, it had remained neutral or....

Bitcoin funding rates had first fallen below the neutral level last month. Before that, the funding rates had been fluctuating at and below neutral for the longest time. This new trend has lasted longer than expected as the digital asset’s price continues to struggle. In this report, we take a look at the state of bitcoin funding rates as well as the implications if the present trend continues. Funding Rates Below Neutral When bitcoin funding rates had first fallen below neutral in June, the price of the digital asset was still trading well above $30,000. Since then though, multiple....

Bitcoin funding rates had seen a very negative month between mid-June and mid-July. The funding rates, which had previously remained muted, quickly declined below neutral and proceeded to spend the next one month on this level. However, there is a significant change as last week saw funding rates return to neutral. Funding Rate Recovers On Exchanges The bitcoin funding rates had been touching low points as the price of the digital asset struggled. This was concerning given that funding rates were expected to improve as the digital asset began to basically trade at what was described as a....

Bitcoin’s recent consolidation phase has come about concurrently with traders stacking up on short positions This indicates that they expect the turbulence within the traditional markets to continue suppressing BTC’s price action, potentially leading it lower in the weeks ahead That being said, this has caused negative funding rates to surge as of late, making it costly to be short Historically, funding rates – when slanted towards one direction for extended periods – work as […]

Bitcoin price saw a sudden 2.5% drop after hitting as high as $19,570 in an overnight rally. The Bitcoin price (BTC) surged above $19,500 briefly on Dec. 15, reaching as high as$19,570 on Binance. However, BTC then dropped to $19,050 within three hours, recording a sudden 2.5% pullback.Bitcoin spiked to around $19,600 because of the momentum of its relief rally and negative futures market funding rates. But, it rejected the same level it broke down from since November due to the selling pressure from whales.Bitcoin 1-hour price chart (Coinbase). Source: TradingView.comA relief rally for....