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$HOOD In the past 24 hours, it fell 6.35%, with the current price at 103.67. Meanwhile, the funding rate has remained at the zero line—longs and shorts are not paying each other fees. Open positions are 151547.92 contracts, with a trading volume of $76.51 million. Looking only at the numbers, it doesn’t look crowded, but when prices are pushed down under a zero-fee environment, it often means both sides are waiting and no one has made the first move.

Old dog took a look: this round of decline didn’t come with a negative funding rate, which suggests the shorts didn’t massively enter to suppress price. It’s more likely spillover from the broader U.S. stock market index move. The on-chain TradFi contract liquidity is now highly tied to SPY/QQQ sentiment, but since the input lacks market-wide data, I can only infer from the contracts themselves. Under a zero-fee environment, if traditional markets rebound, the closing pressure on $HOOD would likely be lower than in a negative-fee scenario, because trapped long positions don’t need to pay extra interest.

My view: around $103, $HOOD may form a short-term equilibrium point, but upside elasticity is weak. The trigger: if the price breaks below $100, I’ll trim and observe; if it breaks above $110 and the funding rate turns positive, I’ll consider adding back. The counter-consensus is this: when the market sees a single-day drop, it quickly starts calling for a trend reversal. I disagree. My reason is that under a zero-fee environment there’s no panic-driven long liquidation; open positions are stable, and it feels more like passive following the downside.

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