🧠 Post #100 🎉 And today, let’s look at something almost nobody checks before opening a futures position: funding.
📘 What it is: with perpetual futures, longs and shorts pay each other a small fee at regular intervals (usually every 8 hours). This helps keep the futures price from drifting away from the spot price.
• Positive funding → longs pay shorts.
• Negative funding → shorts pay longs.
📊 Today's examples (Binance):
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$ONE : −0.0187% → shorts pay (it rose +34%)
• FLOKI: −0.0138% → shorts pay
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$BTC : −0.0006% → practically neutral
• XRP, SHIB, and PEPE: 0.010% → the usual base rate
🧮 Example: a $1,000 short position in ONE at −0.0187% pays $0.19 per settlement. Not much, but with leverage and over several days, it adds up.
❌ Common mistake: thinking “negative funding = it’s going to rise.” It only tells you how traders are positioned. It can trigger a short squeeze, but it isn't a signal.
📝 In one line: funding tells you who's betting more heavily and who pays to stay in their position.
Do you check funding before trading? YES / NO 👇
#Futuros #FundingRate #AprendeCripto #Binance #Tra100d ⚠️ For informational and educational purposes only; this is not financial advice. Cryptocurrencies are volatile: do your research and trade with caution.