Spot ETF yesterday net inflow of $999 million, the ninth-largest single day in history; BlackRock’s group alone was $381 million. I’ll jot that number down first, then go check whether the money actually followed into the copycat—turns out it didn’t.
$USELESS 24 Hours up 22.8%. After I finished adjusting the contracts, I got clearer: 58.9% of accounts are sitting on short positions. Over the same period, the 8-hour open interest went from $24.20 million to $24.18 million—basically no increase. As the price is pushed higher, the position size doesn’t move; sixty percent of people are waiting for it to drop.
One more jab: over the past 1 hour, the active buy/sell ratio is 1.07, and the buy-side isn’t that aggressive. Price is rising, accounts are skewed short, and new money isn’t coming in. Put these three together, I figure the shorts are being squeezed gradually—not trading the trend.
I won’t add until it breaks above 0.3047. If it drops below 0.2700, this move is fake.
Are you waiting for a pullback to buy back in, or flipping short directly?
Up 54.6% in one day—yet the one paying is the shorts.
This morning, the first data I pulled when I woke up was $KERNEL . Current price: 0.06554, fee rate: -0.4217%. Settled every 8 hours—shorts end up paying an extra 462% over the year.
Even stranger is the pricing: the contract mark is 0.06534, while the spot index is 0.06712. The contract is actually 2.65% lower than the spot. If real money were coming in, the contract should be pushing up against the spot—not the other way around.
Holding 55.66 million tokens, at most propping up 3.65 million U. 40.46 million U traded in to make a round trip—then it ended up with only this much left. The rest is just passersby’s money.
I stared at these figures until my eyes watered twice. From what I can see, the fuel for a short squeeze is the shorts’ money. Once the shorts admit defeat and the fire goes out. I only changed my tune after it got above 0.07052; if it fell below 0.042, then I’d admit I was wrong.
With a fee rate like this, how many days do you think it can last? If you’re brave enough to hold a position, post the number—I'd like to see who’s more hard-headed than me.
At 1:40 a.m., my black cat was asleep on the keyboard. The third cup of coffee on the desk had already gone cold.
I wasn’t watching the market. I was going through my own records from this month: my stop-loss level was moved nine times in total—seven of them were moved downward. The reason was always pretty much the same: give it a little more room.
After tallying it up, I almost laughed. Out of those nine times, six were finally filled below the very line I originally drew.
I can calculate everyone else’s positions, their fees, and turnover—I’m spot-on—but somehow I can’t control this one line of mine.
Do any of you have rules that are set really seriously, where once the market opens they automatically become void? Tell me one. I want to know if it’s only me who’s this embarrassing.
Up 6.16% on a bad-news day—that’s today’s $COIN . The CLARITY Act got stuck, so Coinbase is pushed to the front; by all the usual logic, it should fall.
I checked it all through: the real stock price is 203.24, and yesterday’s close was 191.45.
On the same day, BTC rose 5.63%, to 85888. Out of that 6.16%, the vast majority came from BTC—its own contribution is almost negligible. In plain terms, the bad news hasn’t been digested; it’s been covered up by BTC’s upside.
Binance’s COIN token is 203.22, only two cents away from the real stock price. The premium is -0.01%—no one is rushing to flee. Holding 15.70 million USDT; today’s volume is 70.74 million USDT, with turnover 4.5x.
At 2 a.m. I stared at these three numbers until my eyes felt sore. Anyway, the conclusion is one sentence: this rise isn’t its own—when BTC turns around, it has to give it back. If it breaks below 191.45, then I was wrong.
[A/B] I didn’t place my own order on this one, and I missed the move.
Up 34.8% for $NIL . Now at 0.0666—it's still 11% short of today’s high at 0.075. I looked up its books today: volume 74 million U, but the shares left on the order book are only 5.68 million U. Turnover is 13 times. After working all day, the money you end up with is basically just spare change. Fees are +0.005%, annualized at 55%. The longs aren’t only losing on the price spread—every day they also have to pay interest to the shorts. Sigh… carrying the contract through the night from this level is really exhausting.
Only after it broke above 0.075 did I realize it’s the spot market that's buying in. A drop below 0.058 means those 74 million U were all the final sucker—would you dare hold a position overnight from here?
JPMorgan raised its 2027 global wafer equipment spending forecast last night to $225 billion, up 38% year over year (2026: $163 billion, +31%). The three U.S. stock equipment giants jumped right away—LRCX +7.0%, AMAT +6.5%—and the Japanese and South Korean equipment supply chains resonated in sync. My first reaction was: this AI cycle isn’t about storytelling—the money for buying shovels is already queued up for 2027.
On the same line, the coin that Binance has been running hardest on isn’t a compute coin—it’s $NEAR : +24% over 24 hours, $1.162 billion in trading volume U, #1 across the whole market.
I specifically checked its positions: OI only reached $236 million U, and the funding rate is +0.01%. It’s up 24% without getting overheated on leverage—this isn’t the same species as the batch from August where the funding rate spiked 0.1% and the market collapsed 30% within three hours.
I put two reference levels: reclaiming the intraday high at 4.46 suggests spot is being swept up; dropping below 4.05 suggests the volume today is the final bag-holding. What are you guys holding right now—spot or futures?
In a market like this, when a 2000万 U coin (U) pulls out +20%, what’s in this kind of pot are all retail traders
Here at KMNO there’s a divergence: over the last 24 hours +19.7%, spot volume 20.02 million U, open interest 3.8 million U, but among accounts in the top 20% by position size, the long-to-short ratio is only 0.86—short orders in the hands of large players are more than longs. The number of accounts is 1.67x more bullish, yet positioning is actually bearish. The long-to-short ratio across all accounts is 1.48, with retail traders going long; the aggressive buy order flow dropped from 1.28 to 0.91.
Once OI rises above 5 million U and the large players’ position size ratio returns to above 1.0, I’m saying I must have misread it; if it breaks below 0.0285, then I’ll say my assessment holds. In this market, are you long or short?
$AKE rose from 0.0213 to yesterday’s high of 0.1647, then dropped to the current 0.0532. Textbooks at this point would say it was a squeeze—fees at -0.0786%, annualized 86%. Shorts pay longs once every 8 hours; but with 24h trading volume of 1.214 billion U, only 25.53 million U ends up net settled in positions—turnover is 47.6x. It’s all intraday flatting; nobody is building positions. So how exactly are you going to squeeze anyone? If OI stands above 40 million U or the fee rate returns within -0.01%, I’ll admit the structure has changed. A drop below 0.0453 counts as my judgment being correct. For those who are still holding, what are their costs?
Yesterday it touched 0.9151, and now it’s 0.7357—most of the rise has already been given back, yet the longs are still paying hourly rent.
I’ve laid out its账 (accounts): a 24-hour increase of 23.7%, trading volume of 79.5 million U, but open interest is 103 million U, and turnover is only 0.77. This batch of positions on the table wasn’t built today. The price is 19.6% away from 0.9151, and the funding rate is still hanging at +0.0323%, which is settled every 8 hours, annualized at 35.4%—paying interest while eating the price spread down. They won’t last through more than two settlement days.
The falsification line is written in stone: if OI falls below 80 million U or the funding rate drops into within 0.01%, then the longs start withdrawing. Until it can get back above 0.9151, treat everything as an attempt at managing existing positions. $BTW [A/B] #数据视角 #资金动向 #Real-time data
-2%——$G ’s funding rate is being pinned at this negative extreme. Today it dropped 31%, cutting away 60.66% from the intraday high. People chasing short positions at a move like this are even paying extra: Volume: 625 million USDT, only 10.94 million USDT in open interest. Turnover is 57x. Everything is intraday hedging—no one is holding positions overnight. My invalidation line is: the funding rate returns to within -0.5%, or open interest drops below 8 million USDT—before these two conditions appear, any reading below 0.0057 shall be treated as a squeeze that rebounds, not a trend reversal. Do you dare to treat it as a trend reversal? #资金动向 #实时数据 #Data perspective
Wall Street has again wrapped a 2x leveraged ETF around the coin-holding companies’ stash. This time, the underlying asset is Strive. Six-plus hours after the news broke, people in the group are already shouting, “The institutions are here.”
I went through my own BTC account: current price 81,085, down 0.03% over the past 24 hours. Today’s high was 81,933 and the low was 80,875. The range was 1.3%. Open interest is 8.715 billion U versus 547 million U in volume. Turnover is only 0.63. Funding rate is 0.01%—the leverage is added on the stock layer; no new money has flowed into the crypto side at all.
To put it plainly: this ETF tracks Strive’s stock price. Strive’s stock price then tracks the batch of coins it holds, with another layer in between that amplifies it by 2x. What people who buy it are betting on is volatility, not the coin price. If there really were new money coming into the coins, OI would need to move toward 9.2 billion U and the funding rate would have to exceed 0.02%. Right now neither is happening. I’m not adding a position if it can’t get above 81,934. Only if it breaks below 80,875 counts as a direction having actually formed. Do you want me to treat this as good news?
A logical error that let an attacker print unlimited coins lay dormant in Zcash’s code for 4 years—until Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 dug it up.
I translated it into days: 4 years is 1,460 days with no one noticing. The AI only took a few weeks. And in just these four days, ZEC jumped from 1,110 to 1,525—up 37%. The current price is 1,525.56, with volume of 2.907 billion U versus open interest of 763 million U. That’s a turnover of 3.8x, all fast money—no one’s here to hold through the night.
What’s even more frightening isn’t this hole, but what SingularityNET’s Goertzel said: that the same kind of bomb is buried in banking software too. Yet the price didn’t panic at all. Today it ranged from a high of 1,595.30 to a low of 1,435.81. Only when it broke below 1,435 did I realize this risk is finally being priced in. If it can’t get back above 1,595, then those four days’ 37% profit-takers are already running. Which side are you betting on?
Robinhood Chain just taught a lesson on the “pay per use” infrastructure fee model today: by early September, daily transaction fees were 8 million U; by 9/16, they were down to just 230k U—down 97%, while the number of transactions only fell 32%. The same day, on-chain applications took away 8 million U, while the chain itself had only 230k U—8.9 million transactions can’t keep a chain alive.
ZAMA faces the same kind of problem: verification, decryption, and cross-chain services are all charged on a per-use basis—and then 100% of it is burned. With a market cap of 197 million U betting entirely on “future massive decryption demand”—but when I looked through it, I couldn’t find any fee data that matches this valuation.
The price action is pretty clear: current price is 0.0774, up +38% in 24h; volume is 126 million U versus open positions of 19.72 million U, with turnover at 6.4x. The fee rate is 0.005%, which annualizes to 54.8%. Meanwhile, the longs are borrowing money hour by hour to buy the narrative. The price is now 8.7% down from the intraday high of 0.0848.
If 0.0848 can’t hold, I won’t participate. I’ll take action and cut down to two-tenths of my position, with a stop-loss at 0.0700. The falsification is written in stone: if the fee rate drops below 0.002% while the price is still above 0.08, and the bulls exit first—that’s the real top.
0.0773%, settle every 8 hours—$B2 the current funding rate is 0.232% three times a day, annualized 84.7%, while BTC at the same period is 0.01%, a difference of 7.7x. It’s up 93% today; if you can hold long positions, you’re not really profiting from the price increase—you’re paying that 85% annual cost by the hour.
The market isn’t well-supported: 24-hour trading volume is 35.6 million USDT, open interest is 14.8 million USDT, turnover is 2.4x—all quick money; the price has pulled back from 0.89 to 0.822, 7.6% below the intraday high. With such an expensive rate and such thin positioning, longs will run first within a two-hour window. The invalidation line is 0.78: if it breaks below that and the funding rate flips negative within two settlement periods, that’s the clean setup. How many 8-hour intervals have your long positions already paid for?
222.38, up 1.32%. Open interest: 157 million U; its trading volume for that day was 146 million U, so open interest is even higher than the day's volume. Funding rate: 0.0000%.
The three numbers describe the same thing: this news brought in no new money.
On Friday, Coinbase filed an application with the CFTC to list perpetuals for roughly 50 to 60 single U.S. stocks—Apple, Microsoft, Tesla, and Nvidia are all on the list. These contracts only track prices; they don’t include dividends, voting rights, or ownership. What they bring are volatility and trading fees, not capital allocation. On the same day, Kalshi also submitted 58 filings, and Kraken’s parent company Payward took the same path—this pie will at least be split among three parties once it really starts running.
Plainly put, the market is buying expectations of whoever earns the fees, not the liquidity of the company that gets listed. Current price of $NVDA is 222.38, which is still 0.45 below the intraday high of 222.83; it hasn’t broken above that level yet. Open interest is larger than the entire day’s trading volume, turnover is 0.93. The orders on the table were stockpiled and placed days earlier. And since the rate is essentially zero, neither the long nor the short side is willing to pay overnight costs.
My falsification line: only if it breaks above 222.83 counts as new money coming in. If open interest drops below 140 million U or the funding rate turns negative, then the pricing of this news is considered to have ended. [A/B] #实时数据 #数据视角 #资金动向
The 5-year exemption has been approved—the money is still circling in place tonight.
On September 17, the SEC approved the “innovation exemption” for tokenized stocks: 1:1 real stocks, dividend and voting rights can’t be reduced, synthetic products excluded, the number of underlying assets and trading volume capped, and issuers retain the power to veto with one vote. A slow burn.
So where is the money tonight? $MYX in one day +73.8%, volume 72.67 million U, with only 10.52 million U still open. Price dropped from 0.115 back to 0.104, a 9.4% pullback. Fees +0.0587% deducted every 8 hours; longs pay 0.176% in one day, annualized 64%.
0.10 is the line in the sand. If it breaks below that, this wave is over. How long until this line can truly run with real volume? Give me a number—I’ll remember it. #市场快讯 #实时数据 #fund flow
The European Central Bank on the 9th raised, the US Federal Reserve on the 17th raised, and Japan today also followed with a hike to 1.25%, the highest since 1995. The three major central banks tightened within the same week—textbook-wise, the chain of “rate hikes → money gets more expensive → risk assets first die” got cut off rather cleanly today: the yen weakened to 157, Nikkei futures are still up 0.69%, and BTC touched 78,000.
I won’t pretend—this transmission chain didn’t materialize today, and I called it wrong. So then we’ll see where the money actually went.
Today there are two kinds of rises, with totally different appearances. The one up 80%: open interest jumped from 4.91 million U to 9.82 million U within an hour, funding rate 0.084%, with longs paying shorts once every eight hours—that’s hard leverage being piled in. And the one up 29.8% ($CROSS ): open interest fell from 3.17 million U to 3.05 million U; price rose about 30% while leverage actually decreased by 4%. With funding rate 0.005% sitting right on the benchmark line, the long/short accounts ratio of 1.60 didn’t move all day.
So I tested a short at 0.1800. The position size is only one-third of my usual. Stop-loss at 0.1900. One reason I dared to place the trade: there’s no rise backed by new leverage entering—the move upward has no fuel. One reason I didn’t go heavy: without leverage, if it drops, there won’t be a liquidation cascade stampede.
Below 0.1725 (the low of the hourly candle at 16:00), above 0.1900. Whichever breaks first, I’ll post the result tomorrow—I’ll accept that I was wrong.
77,000, -13.4%, 3.93M U—three numbers in a row. BTC touched 77k, yet the ETFs for ETH and XRP are seeing net outflows; there’s no real-money follow-through on new highs. Altcoins are even more flimsy: DRIFT surged to 0.0193 and then fell back to 0.0167, down 13.4%. The OI is only 3.93M U; the fee rate is +0.005%, still charging longs for the privilege. A pump without positions is pure sentiment trading. The “quality” of this 40% hinges on whether 0.0156 (the midpoint of the 24h range) can hold—if it can’t, all the gains before will be for nothing. $DRIFT [A/B] #data perspective
There’s one detail I stared at for a long time: $COTI is up 33.3% today, yet the funding rate is -0.0032%. Meanwhile, the price has already fallen from the intraday high of 0.02673 to 0.023252—down 13%.
A 33% rise is not unusual when shorts are the ones paying longs. What’s strange is this: the shorts are paying the funding rate, yet the price keeps moving lower. That dump can’t possibly come from the contract—it can only be someone selling spot. The invisible selling pressure in the futures contract is the real thing.
Here’s a falsifiable prediction: if the funding rate flips from negative to positive, but the price is still falling, then that’s what you call leveraged shorts launching a counterattack—talk of accelerating the sell-off would be legitimate. It hasn’t flipped yet.
Keep an eye on one number: 0.02673. If it can’t reclaim that level, then this 33% is just a ladder someone else is using to unload.
So which do you believe—spot is being smashed, or shorts are being the ones that are smashing?