$RE This wave is not an ordinary pump, with open interest increasing by 481.6% in one day, but the funding rate still at -1.926%.

The price has risen from 0.3663 to a high of 0.8272 in 24 hours, an 83.66% increase, with a trading volume reaching $708 million.
Current price is 0.753, already above the upper Bollinger band at 0.7316, RSI at 78.8, and the J value of KDJ reaching 102.4, indicating the market is clearly overheated.
What is truly abnormal is the position structure.
Open interest is now only $17.78 million, but it surged by 481.6% in 24 hours, and continued to increase by 24.1% in the past hour.
This suggests it’s not old positions slowly turning profitable, but new positions flooding in, pushing the price higher, with more people leveraging up inside the market.
Even more unusual is the funding rate.
Funding rate at -1.9263%, with six consecutive periods of short paying, and the contract is trading at a 3.6587% discount to spot.
Shorts are paying to maintain their positions, yet the market keeps pushing upward, forming a typical short squeeze structure.
The long-short ratio is 0.83, with only 45% of retail accounts being long, indicating most traders are not collectively chasing longs.
However, the active buy-sell ratio is 1.04, OBV shows inflow, top-tier accounts have a long-short ratio of 1.02, and funds are not entirely on the short side.
The key to this structure isn’t how much the price has risen, but how much cost shorts are willing to pay to keep their positions.
If negative funding rates can’t suppress the price, the next wave of volatility will likely be even uglier.
$RE #Contract Anomaly
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