Longs are pulling out money every 8 hours, and $CLO 's price still remains close to the high, not coming down.

This market pattern doesn't look like a normal retail walk.
The previous audit signal wasn't actually about the price increase, but a 53.9% surge in open interest (OI) in one day.
Now the results are clear on the chart, with $CLO rising to 35.89% over 24 hours, the price from 0.13121 to a high of 0.1976, currently around 0.19094.
This isn't small funds testing the waters; new positions are directly rushing in.
Even more interesting, the funding rate has been paid by longs for over 8 consecutive periods.
The message is straightforward: longs have been paying costs to hold their positions, but the price hasn't collapsed immediately.
If retail traders were impulsively chasing the high, usually when the funding rate heats up and the price softens, it would quickly reveal itself.
But here, the open interest is still at $8 million, with 24-hour trading volume of $30.7 million, and leverage positions are not low.
Market sentiment isn't completely one-sided either.
Active buy-sell ratio is 1.02, long-short ratio is 1.01, almost evenly split among regular accounts.
However, top-tier accounts have a long-short ratio of 1.38, indicating larger positions leaning toward the long side.
This forms a very typical audit conclusion: retail traders are still hesitating, while big players have already pushed their chips in.
The key levels now are simple.
Above, 0.1976 is the recent high; if it can't break through, it could easily become a short-term ceiling.
Below, if it falls back below 0.19094, it’s not just a small dip; it could swallow the middle of this rally, and the surge in open interest might turn from a booster into a backlash.
This structure isn't about how much it has risen, but whether these new positions will continue to be locked in or prepare to clash with each other.
In a market with continuous funding payments and persistent upward pressure like this, do you think it's a second-half acceleration or the longs taking their last breath?
# Contract Anomaly
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