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What is Funding Rate?

the fee perp longs pay shorts (or vice versa) every few hours to hold a position.

The number

Funding Rate is the fee perp longs pay shorts (or vice versa) every few hours to hold a position.

What it means

a positive number means longs are paying shorts, the crowd is leaning long; negative means the crowd is leaning short.

Why it matters

when everyone leans one way, the market loves to punish them, crowded trades snap.

From the desk

This is one of the nine signals fused into the Pulse Score (as "funding"). Every hourly briefing re-ranks all 12 coins on it. See Methodology for the full input list.

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the total dollars of futures positions currently open

Explainer generated Sep 24, 2026 from the desk glossary. Not financial advice.