Why Can High Funding Rates Make Long-Term Positions Increasingly Expensive?

Many crypto traders focus on BTC price movements but overlook another factor that can continuously affect trading results: funding rates.

You may have correctly predicted the market and your position may be temporarily profitable, but if you hold a perpetual contract for a long time, ongoing funding payments can still erode your eventual returns.

Directional calls determine profits and losses from price changes, while funding rates can continuously affect holding costs.

I. What Are Funding Rates?

Funding rates are

US stocks open higher, Nasdaq up more than 1.5%

On November 11, US stocks opened higher, with the Dow up 0.2%, the S&P 500 up 0.9%, and the Nasdaq up 1.56%. CoreWeave (CRWV.O) surged 14.5% after reporting earnings that beat expectations. Nvidia (NVDA.O) rebounded 2.6% today after closing lower for two consecutive days. Chip stocks broadly rose, with SK hynix (SKHY.O) up 7.6%, Broadcom (AVGO.O) up 5.8%, and TSMC (TSM.N) up 4.3%.#美国10月CPI全面超预期 $BTC ‌

Damn, OpenAI’s financials look like it’s burning cash at the speed of a money printer, turning “go big or go home” into “massive losses in exchange for growth”!

The newly released Q3 financials are a real eye-opener: quarterly revenue surged 50% sequentially to $10 billion. But the cost of that growth was an adjusted quarterly operating loss that widened from $10.1 billion to $10.9 billion.

A lot of people’s first reaction might be “losses are narrowing” or “economies of scale are kicking in,” but a closer look at the numbers shows it’s not that simple.

Revenue jumping 50% in just three mon

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Bank of America: Retail Investors and ETFs Drive Market Momentum

Bank of America (BAC) reports that its customers bought U.S. stocks last week, with ETF inflows making them the largest buyers in the market. BAC's stock is slightly down at -0.26%.
This headline provides crucial insight into the underlying liquidity and sentiment driving the current stock market. It indicates that the recent market resilience or rally is being heavily supported by retail investors and passive fund flows (ETFs). When retail investors are aggressive buyers, it often reflects a "risk-on" sentiment and FOMO (fear o

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$SOL slipped to about $81.70 overnight and then just... walked right back to $84 like nothing happened. Flat day on paper, but somebody clearly bought that dip.
You adding down here or sitting on your hands? #Solana

Anyone can say they’re “steady.”
Lay out your live trading results every day,
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Pre-market analysis of US stocks: Nvidia surges, chip stocks rebound across the board🔥

US stocks are starting to surge pre-market, with Nvidia up 4%, memory stocks sharply higher across the board, tech stocks rebounding strongly, the Nasdaq up over 2%, and gold and silver also heating up. Is a recovery rally about to begin?

Yesterday's bearish news has been absorbed, and the rebound trend is gaining strength. $SNDK is starting to hold above 900. As long as bearish sentiment doesn't persist, tonight will likely see a steady recovery. However, crude oil is starting to rise again, so beware o

Consolidation divergence—if you don’t take a super-short-term trade on this setup, are you even doing yourself justice???

The 100u challenge wrapped up successfully on day four 💪. I only use 100u to trade each day. Today was a roller coaster, but after careful analysis, I recovered my losses and made a profit. I won't let the brothers following my trades worry #黄金 $XAUUSD

I finally broke even on SanDisk after being stuck in it for a week. Liquidity in crypto is a bit thin tonight—just a few hundred points of back-and-forth chop. Asian and European markets rebounded, and U.S. stocks rebounded too, but crypto has been pretty lackluster #直通IPO第三期Anthropic #Gate全球合规版图扩展

$VVV did its biggest monthly burn yet on Monday, 21.7K tokens.
Valour also listed a VVV ETP in Sweden last week.
From last year's low it ran about 38x. Now it's pulling back to the May high near $20, old resistance that has to hold 🤝

$JCT I'm currently down 200U; either get me to 004, or I'll stick with you

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