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$SKDD ’s order book. The 24-hour trading volume is $1.29 million, and the price is hanging at 6.654, down 6%. That drop isn’t small, but the key is that the funding rate is at 0. A funding rate of zero means that right now, neither side—the on-chain perp long nor the short—is paying the other. It’s a delicate equilibrium.
The price is falling, yet the funding rate isn’t negative—this in itself is a signal. Per the hard rules of on-chain perps, in a downtrend, if shorts have the upper hand, the funding rate is usually negative because shorts have to pay longs. Now it’s 0, which suggests this round of selling pressure may not be driven by newly added shorts. More likely, it’s existing longs closing out, or longs still holding but with expanding unrealized losses—while there isn’t new short power to grind them down. Given that the open interest is close to 60,000 units, there is still inventory in the market.
The angle mentioned is to watch how
$SKDD correlates with major index ETFs like SPY/QQQ. As an on-chain TradFi-style contract,
$SKDD ’s price action should reflect market sentiment from the underlying asset. But the ratio between on-chain liquidity (trading volume of $1.29 million) and open interest isn’t high, implying there isn’t much capital actively engaging deeply in the tug-of-war. That means the price is easier to move with relatively small amounts of trading.
So my take is that
$SKDD is currently at a critical point where longs are passively adding. The fact that it’s down while the funding rate stays neutral suggests shorts aren’t fully attacking; the downside move is more likely caused by long holders’ confidence loosening, leading to chips becoming available. If market sentiment worsens further—for example, if the U.S. stock market indices weaken—these passively held long positions may become among the first to get liquidated, triggering a chain reaction of liquidations.
The opposing view is straightforward: the price is undeniably down 6%, and there’s no accompanying surge in trading volume. That can be interpreted as a drying up of buy-side demand, where any bullish news could become an opportunity to unload. The hardest counter-argument is simply the price chart itself—it has already broken down.
The next thing to watch is whether, as the price approaches the current level of 6.654, new capital comes in to prop it up. If not, these neutral-rate long positions could turn into potential fuel for a sell-off. What I’m doing right now is: I won’t touch it. I’m not rushing to bottom-fish, and I’m not chasing shorts, because during a neutral funding-rate period, the direction choice is most likely to be fooled by fake moves. I’ll wait for two signals before acting: (1) the funding rate clearly turns negative (shorts start to exert force), and (2) the price breaks below 6.654 on increasing volume and holds there.
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