Hey guys, this bearish candle has dropped nearly two points, and the short-term funding rate is still in the negative zone—basically, the market maker has no real intention of pushing it down.

The volume on the last candlestick directly shrank to 60% of the previous one, a typical no-volume stagnation decline. Looking at the order book, buy orders are thin, while sell orders are very thick—market makers deliberately suppressing the price without turning the funding rate positive, just waiting for someone to cut losses and buy in.

The main players who truly want to push the price down would have already turned the funding rate positive; how could it be so inverted and still fall like this?

Just now, I placed a small short order at the current price, with a stop-loss above the body of this bearish candle, waiting for this no-volume decline to fail and for a pullback before adding more. Guys, do you think the market maker is testing who will take the bait this time?