What Is the Funding Rate? Why Can Holding a Perpetual Contract Also Create Ongoing Costs?
In the cryptocurrency market, some traders get the direction right but find that their final returns are lower than expected. Besides trading fees and slippage, there is another easily overlooked factor: the funding rate.
The funding rate is a mechanism in the perpetual contract market that helps keep contract prices aligned with spot market prices. It can affect holding costs and influence whether traders are willing to hold a position in a particular direction over the long term.
First, what exactly is

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$ENA : From One Key Concept to Two Conditional Opportunities
When I looked at $ENA ’s chart again, I first hid the 24-hour -1.15%. It’s too easy to draw attention away. What really needs explaining right now is that $ENA’s price has already moved, but trading activity and volume haven’t followed. We can tentatively trust the direction, but shouldn’t assume it will continue; a move without anyone following through could be reversed at any moment.
My view: the direction is there for now, but low participation has reduced the credibility of this move.
Today, let’s explain a concept that can be use

Check in every night before bed, complete two tasks during lunch breaks, and spend some time looking into points on the weekend. After a month of work, you finally receive an airdrop. Your first thought is bound to be: “All that effort paid off!”
But don’t rush to count the entire reward amount as money earned.
It’s a bit like trying to meet an e-commerce spending threshold for a discount: you may get plenty of coupons, but to know whether you actually saved money, you also have to count what you spent buying extra items to qualify.
For example, if you sold the airdrop for 120U, spent 25U on i

$AVA $AVA faces heavy selling pressure, with bears pushing the price toward $0.30. Trading strategy: Short entry range: $0.3120–$0.3160 First target: $0.3080 Second target: $0.3030 Third target: $0.2980 Stop-loss: $0.3220 AVA remains in a clear downtrend on the 4-hour chart, with consecutive bearish candles indicating strong selling pressure. If it breaks below $0.3120, the price could fall further to $0.30; if it rebounds and breaks through resistance, the bearish strategy may weaken.

You clearly have 500 USDT in your wallet and only want to transfer 100, but the page warns that you don’t have enough to cover the fee. You might wonder: Don’t I still have money in here?
Having a balance doesn’t mean you have the specific coins needed to pay network fees.
For example, when transferring USDT on Ethereum mainnet from a typical self-custody wallet, you’re sending USDT, but you usually need ETH to pay the gas fee. If your wallet only has USDT and not enough ETH, you may be unable to submit the transaction.
It’s a bit like trying to take the bus with a shopping mall gift card: The

In-depth analysis of Google's earnings report!

After the FOMC decision, markets showed a clear “stocks strong, gold weak, crypto choppy” pattern. Tech stocks (semiconductors), boosted by both the AI narrative and tolerance for a high-interest-rate environment, shrugged off macro volatility and continued their independent rally. Gold and weaker altcoins, meanwhile, faced notable selling pressure.
Overall strength ranking: SNDK (extremely strong) > SOXL (strong) > BTC (choppy, with a bullish bias) > XRP (choppy) > ETH (weak) > XAU (weak)#Gate首家推出黄金CFD7X23交易

Google plunged more than 8% overnight, with its stock falling from 325 to 298.
A couple of days ago, I said: if Search growth falls below 15%, 315 won't hold.
As it turned out, Search grew just 12%. 315 broke overnight.
Cloud is actually doing extremely well, bringing in $30.7 billion in a quarter—more than doubling and beating expectations. In the past, that would have sent the stock soaring.
But this time, the market wasn't buying it.
The problem is spending. It poured more than $50 billion into AI in one quarter, while free cash flow came in negative by $9 billion. It's been negative for tw

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Gold scores two consecutive intraday wins
Shorted at 4063, exited at 4054, 9 points, 1306🔪$XAUT

Crypto News | Datavault AI shares plunge 50% after disclosing it cannot withdraw Bitcoin from exchange Biconomy, forced to restate $92 million in financial data
The most noteworthy thing isn’t that Datavault AI’s stock was cut in half in a single day, but that it exposed one of crypto’s most uncomfortable wounds: does Bitcoin “booked off-chain” on an exchange really belong to you?😂
Shares plunged nearly 50% in a single day, with trading volume surging to 244 million shares, and closed at $0.067. The brutal crash was triggered by the company’s own disclosure that it has been unable to withdraw

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​1️⃣: The Fed kept rates unchanged this time, but some members supported a rate hike, and the overall wording was hawkish.
1/ For gold: It will be difficult for prices to make a sustained move sharply higher in the short term; the base case is a wide trading range. High real interest rates are weighing on prices, making rallies prone to resistance. Ongoing gold purchases by global central banks provide a floor, limiting the scope for a large, sustained decline. 📈
For gold to begin a new uptrend, the key is for inflation data to continue falling, pushing real Treasury yields lower. If

Wang Sicong visits the Musée d’Orsay with his 29-year-old girlfriend, who is very thin, has dyed blonde hair, and looks like a rebellious young woman.

📉 $GOOGL Down 12% two hours after earnings, I added to my position with a small allocation!
Alphabet's Q3 revenue was $127.6 billion, up 25% year over year but slightly below expectations; EPS was just $2.12, weighed down by losses on equity investments.
The highlight was Google Cloud revenue, up 103% year over year; the concern was free cash flow of negative $9.07 billion, with AI capital expenditures set to continue rising.
My view: The long-term thesis for AI + cloud computing + in-house chips remains intact, but returns on investment need to be proven.
I added with a small allocation; my

Today's KOL performance update: 30 signals in total, 27 settled, with 18 wins and 9 stop losses. Trader Gauls tops the leaderboard with a single winning trade and simulated returns of +703%; AMAN is next with 7 wins and 4 stop losses (64%), and +556%. Based on a 100x leverage simulation; volatility is high, so use as a reference with caution. See the full leaderboard in the image 👀. By the way, Trader Gauls also topped the previous leaderboard (10-29) with +703%, retaining the top spot this time 👀#BTC spot ETF flows keep reversing—can market buying stabilize?

10.29$BTC $ETH
Held on until the rate hike
Bought a double long at the bottom
Exited all during the rally at the highs
Banked +8587U
BTC: 589-point move
ETH: 33-point move
Initially, I still wanted to wait for an opportunity to add to the position
But afterward, it basically kept heading toward the bottom
The initial position also paid off
Took profits in time
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$ETH The current price is 2,341.57. The 1-hour trend is weak (EMA20 at 2,352.57 is acting as resistance), and the 4-hour trend is also weak (EMA20 at 2,348.32). Price is stuck between 1-hour support at 2,323.2 and resistance at 2,391.55, while 1-hour trading volume is only 52.9% of the daily norm.
The current view is that the weakness will continue, but low participation casts doubt on the downside momentum. A volume-backed break below 2,323.2 would confirm an acceleration in the trend, while a breakout above 2,391.55 could reverse the short-term downturn. The key question is: is this low-vo