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💰 $BTC is nearing $82,000. But who's buying? #Bitcoin is approaching a key zone just ahead of the Fed's decision. After falling below $80,000, the price recovered and came close to $82,000. At first glance, the market is coming back to life. But there's a catch: a rising price doesn't necessarily mean strong buyers have returned. 📊 What's behind the rebound? 🔹 1. Part of the rally comes from SHORT liquidations. According to CoinGlass, shorts accounted for around 75% of futures liquidations during one recent 24-hour period. When the price moves against leveraged sellers, their positions are forcibly closed — adding further upward pressure on BTC. But it's important to distinguish between two scenarios: the price rises because sellers are forced to exit, or it rises because new buyers are actively absorbing available supply. The moves may look similar, but their sustainability can be very different. 🔹 2. Spot BTC ETFs are seeing inflows again, but it's too early to draw firm conclusions. Following approximately $773.5 million in outflows on October 22–23, spot BTC ETFs attracted $110.3 million on October 26 and another $24.5 million on October 27. That's a positive shift, but two days of inflows don't prove that institutional demand is back for the long term. 🔹 3. Coins are moving off exchanges. According to Santiment, net BTC outflows from exchanges reached around 14,942 BTC on October 27 — the largest figure in five weeks. This could reduce the supply immediately available for sale. However, exchange outflows alone don't prove accumulation: some transfers may reflect changes in custody or movements between platforms. 🎯 Why is the $80,000–$81,000 zone so important? The key isn't just whether BTC touches $82,000, but what happens next. 🟢 Bullish scenario: #BTCUSDT holds above $80,000–$81,000, successfully retests the zone, ETF inflows continue, and spot demand confirms the move. That would strengthen the case for a sustained recovery. 🔴 Bearish scenario: #BTCUSD encounters selling pressure near resistance, fails to hold above $82,000, and falls back below $80,000. In that case, the rally may have been driven primarily by short covering rather than the beginning of a lasting uptrend. ⚡️ And today, there's another major factor: the Fed. The rate decision and policymakers' comments could reshape expectations for the dollar, Treasury yields, and the cost of risk.

The rate decision is expected at 18:00 UTC, followed by the Fed Chair's press conference at 18:30.

The consensus is for rates to remain unchanged at 3.75%–4.00%. The market will be watching the Fed's comments on inflation and the possibility of another rate hike in December. The expected decision itself may already be priced in, making the tone of the statement and press conference especially important. So don't try to predict the direction based on the headline alone. Watch how $BTC reacts after the decision, whether ETF inflows continue, and whether real buying emerges to sustain the price without forced short liquidations. https://www.tradingview.com/chart/BTCUSDT.P/iXrqD0JM-Bitcoin-BTC-price-nears-82K-Real-Buyers-or-Just-Short-Squeeze 🧠 #DYOR | This is not financial advice, just thinking out loud.

On October 22, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $635.49M in net outflows. The largest outflows came from BlackRock IBIT ($254.05M), Fidelity FBTC ($217.46M), and ARKB ($109.43M). Not much to be optimistic about so far, and to make things even more interesting, Mercury retrograde starts tomorrow. 😅🪐 For now, we consider a move down to $77,500–$78,000 the most likely scenario.

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​💥 $434M Liquidated in 24 Hours. Is the Bottom In—or Is the Sell-Off Not Over?

In Q3 2026, the crypto market gained $840B in market capitalization. But that doesn't mean $840B of new money entered crypto. Market cap revalues all circulating assets at current prices.

Now that the market is falling again, the key question is different: are sellers running out of force, or are forced liquidations still accelerating the correction? 📊 What Are Spot and Futures Telling Us? According to the latest CoinGlass snapshot for #BTC: 💵 24h spot volume: approximately $6.4B. ⚖️ 24h futures volume: approximately $74.6B — nearly 12 times spot volume. 📌 Open interest: approximately $53.9B. This shows how significant derivatives trading is. But futures volume is trading turnover, not net capital inflow, and open interest doesn't tell us who controls the direction. We need to assess OI changes, funding, spot demand, and liquidations together. 💥 $434.32M Liquidated. And Most Recent Liquidations Were Longs According to your latest CoinGlass snapshot over 24 hours: $434.32M in total liquidations. $264.43M in longs and $169.89M in shorts. 103,046 traders liquidated. The most important detail is the recent breakdown. Over 12 hours, $216.85M was liquidated, including $203.76M in longs. Over 4 hours, $75.24M of the $80.36M total came from longs. In the latest hour, longs accounted for $8.92M out of $9.50M in liquidations. That means forced long closures dominated the recent downward move. These liquidations can amplify a sell-off as position closures generate additional selling pressure. By asset, #BTC accounted for $166.47M in liquidations and #ETH for $89.45M. But a massive liquidation wave doesn't mean sellers are exhausted. What matters is how price behaves afterward. 🎯At PS Trade, we don't bet everything on one forecast. We regularly revisit two scenarios in our videos and daily market reviews for the 99 Friends of PS Trade club. We focus on the conditions that confirm each scenario, not on emotions or predictions alone. 🟢 Scenario 1 — Buyers defend $80,000. Price stops making lower lows despite continued selling. Open interest contracts, excess leverage leaves the market, and funding cools. Then #BTC reclaims the lost level, holds it on a retest, and forms a higher local low. That would provide evidence of a potential bottom forming—not merely a short-lived bounce. 🔴 Scenario 2 — $80,000 fails to hold. If price establishes itself below $80,000 and fails to reclaim the level, the next important area to watch is $77,500–$78,000. There, we look for the same thing: can buyers absorb selling, or does the market continue lower? Reaching support alone is not a buy signal. 🧭 What Would Convince Us a Bottom Is Forming? We don't need record-breaking liquidations. We need to see what happens after them: ✅ Selling remains intense, but price stops falling. ✅ OI contracts, funding cools, and spot demand begins absorbing supply. ✅ #BTC reclaims a key level and confirms it with a retest and a change in local market structure. None of these signals guarantees a reversal on its own. Their strength comes from appearing together. A bottom isn't simply the moment everyone feels scared. It's when, after forced selling, the market stops falling and buyers prove they can absorb the supply.

💬 Which scenario looks more likely to you: holding $80,000, or moving toward $77,500–$78,000 to test buyer demand?

🧠 #DYOR | This is not financial advice, just thinking out loud. #education

🪙 The price of $WLD is being steadily and persistently pushed toward the upper trendline of a descending channel that has been in place since early 2024. As long as #WLDUSDT holds above $0.45, the chances of breaking through that trendline and finally exiting the downtrend in 2026 remain fairly high. 📉 If that doesn't happen, however, the correction could drag on for months. So, if you're interested in Worldcoin, keep a close eye on this asset. The next targets in our scenario are $1.30–1.50.

The only question is — when? 🙂

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​👨‍💻 Are You Analyzing the Market or Trying to Prove Yourself Right? 🧠 Once we open a position, our perception can change. Instead of objectively evaluating the market, we start looking for reasons why our original idea must be correct. Price moves in our favor? We take it as confirmation. Price moves against us? We call it temporary noise, a stop hunt, or market manipulation. This is confirmation bias: the tendency to favor information that supports our existing beliefs while dismissing evidence that contradicts them. 🔍 Three signs that your analysis may be turning into self-justification: 🔸 Your explanations keep changing, but your target stays the same. Every new market movement gets a different explanation, yet you refuse to reconsider your original thesis. 🔸 You accept only the evidence that suits you. Favorable movements confirm your analysis, while unfavorable ones are dismissed as meaningless noise. 🔸 You add to a losing position to defend your original idea. Instead of reassessing the situation, you increase exposure because you want the market to prove you right. 🛠 How can you counter this bias? ✅ Write down the facts that support your trade and the facts that contradict it. Be honest about both. ✅ Ask yourself: “If I had no position right now, would the current market situation be enough to make me enter this trade?” ✅ Define in advance what would invalidate your idea. If that condition occurs, reassess the trade instead of inventing another explanation to keep it alive. 🎯 Good analysis isn't about finding more reasons to be right. It's about understanding under which conditions you could be wrong. The market doesn't owe us confirmation. Our job is to respond to the evidence, not to defend our ego.

💬 Have you ever held onto a position simply because you didn't want to admit that your original analysis was wrong?

🧠 #DYOR | This is not financial advice, just thinking out loud. #education

🪙 Well, $NEAR has already hit 3 out of our 5 targets from the previous bullish wave. 🎯 Price reached $2.85, $4, and $6, starting from around $1.60. That's a pretty solid result, especially considering how little time it took. 😉 🤔 Now let's see what happens next. For $NEAR, the next important level is $4.60. 👉 If sellers manage to push the price below it, the path toward $4 could open up pretty quickly. 👉 If panic returns to the market, we can't rule out squeezes toward $3.40 either. For now, we don't see a need to look any lower. But that doesn't mean we're giving up on our bullish targets.

$8 and $10 are still on the table.

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🧱 A Huge Order Book Wall: Real Support or a Trap for Traders? 👀 A massive buy wall suddenly appears in the order book. Scalpers and day traders see potential support and wonder: with so many buy orders, how could sellers possibly push the price lower? But as price approaches, the wall disappears. The market drops, stop-losses trigger, and slippage kicks in. 🔄 Sometimes the opposite happens: the wall disappears, selling accelerates, yet price stops falling and reverses upward. Perhaps someone is absorbing the selling pressure. To understand what’s happening, we need to look beyond the order book. 🔍 The Order Book Shows Only Part of the Picture The order book displays visible limit orders available for trading. Large concentrations of orders are often called walls and may be used to identify potential support and resistance. But an order is an intention, not an executed trade. It can be modified or canceled before execution. A large wall may represent genuine liquidity, a temporary order, or a quote that disappears when the trader changes their plan. 🫥 There are also orders that don't reveal their full size in the public order book: 👉 Hidden orders: Bitfinex, for example, offers hidden orders that don't appear in the public order book. Specific size requirements and fee conditions apply. 👉 Iceberg orders: Only part of the total order is visible, while the remaining quantity is submitted in smaller portions. Iceberg functionality is available on platforms including OKX, Bybit, Kraken, Bitget, and Gate. 👉 Trigger orders: These activate when price reaches a specified level. The exchange then submits a market or limit order, depending on the settings. Before activation, the order may not appear as an active order in the book. So, the absence of a large wall doesn't mean large interest is absent — and its presence doesn't guarantee support or resistance. ⚡️ How Does the “Carpet Pull” Happen? Imagine traders are relying on a huge buy wall. Some open LONG positions, while others place stop-losses just below it. Suddenly, the wall disappears. Price drops, long stop-losses trigger, and those exits can generate additional selling. If there aren't enough bids nearby, market orders may sweep through several price levels. That's slippage: the execution price differs from the expected price. During fast moves, a stop order doesn't necessarily guarantee an exit at the exact trigger price. 💥 But there's another possible scenario. Aggressive selling continues, yet price barely falls. This may indicate that buyers are absorbing the sell flow. If the market then reverses upward, that reaction is more informative than the wall itself. Still, it's only a hypothesis. Check executed trades, volume, and price behavior. Heavy selling alone doesn't guarantee a reversal. 🍿 What Should You Check Instead of Blindly Trusting a Wall? 📌 Order dynamics: Does the wall stay in place, or keep disappearing and moving as price approaches? 📊 Executed trades: Are buyers actually absorbing market sells, or is price moving easily through the level? 🔬 Delta and CVD: Heavy selling without further downside may suggest absorption, but it needs confirmation. ⚠️ Slippage: A thin order book can make exiting a position more expensive than expected. 🎯 The takeaway: Don't trade the wall itself. Watch what happens to liquidity as price approaches: does the order remain, disappear, execute, or absorb opposing flow? The market's reaction — not the size of a number in the order book — helps us assess whether visible liquidity represents real strength.

💬 Do you trade off the walls in a chart, or do you see how they behave when the price approaches your critical level?

🧠 #DYOR | This is not financial advice, just thinking out loud. #education

​🪤 Price Breaks a Level — Then Reverses. How Do You Spot a False Breakout? 📈 Price moves above resistance and buyers enter LONG, expecting further upside. But instead of another push higher, the market reverses — trapping those who bought the breakout. 📉 The reverse can happen at support: price breaks below it, sellers step in, but the market moves back above the level. A false breakout is a move beyond an important boundary without price holding there. 🔍 Why Does It Happen? Stop-losses and pending orders often cluster around local highs and lows. Above resistance, there may be short stop-losses and buy orders from breakout traders; below support, long stop-losses and sell orders. ⚡️ When price crosses a level, triggered orders can accelerate the move. But that doesn’t mean demand or supply is strong enough to sustain it. If the market fails to hold beyond the level, price may return to the range, and late entrants may close their positions — adding pressure in the opposite direction. A false breakout isn’t necessarily manipulation. It can result from insufficient demand, changing market conditions, or reactions to triggered orders. 🧭 How to Tell a False Breakout from a Genuine One 1️⃣ Holding beyond the level. If price breaks above resistance but closes back below it, the market may be rejecting higher prices. A move back above support after a downside break may indicate rejection of lower prices. One candle, however, doesn’t guarantee a reversal. 2️⃣ The reaction after price returns. If price re-enters the range and can’t break out again, the false-breakout scenario becomes more plausible. If it quickly reclaims the level and holds beyond it, the initial pullback may have been temporary. 3️⃣ Volume and the retest. High volume shows activity, but it doesn’t prove a breakout is genuine. Watch whether price continues to advance. After a breakout, resistance may become support, and support may become resistance. A successful retest supports continuation; a return to the previous range calls for reassessment. ⏱️ Why Do We Emphasize Price Acceptance? That’s why our market reviews and coin analyses repeatedly stress the importance of price holding above or below a key level or liquidity zone. A brief move beyond a boundary can trigger orders, but subsequent price action helps show whether the market is accepting the new range. 📊 The higher the timeframe on which price holds beyond a level, the more meaningful that confirmation generally is. A level holding on the daily chart usually matters more to the medium-term structure than a brief move on a one-minute chart. The trade-off is that higher-timeframe confirmation takes longer and may mean a less attractive entry price. 🧩 What Can Order Flow Add? If buying/selling delta and CVD data are available, they can help assess how price reacts to aggressive orders. For example, buying activity rises sharply, but price barely moves above resistance. This may mean limit sellers are absorbing demand. If price then falls back below the level, the breakout looks less convincing. No single metric guarantees the outcome. What matters is the combination of the level, price acceptance, volume, the retest, and the broader market structure. 🎯 The takeaway: a breakout isn’t a signal by itself — it tests whether the market can hold beyond an important boundary. Don’t try to guess every move. Wait for confirmation, define your scenario, and know in advance when it is no longer valid.

💬 Do you enter immediately after a breakout, or wait for price to hold beyond the level and retest it?

🧠 #DYOR | This is not financial advice, just thinking out loud. #education

📊 Futures Basis: What Does It Tell Us About the Market — and How Do We Read It Alongside Funding and OI? Earlier this week, we explored funding rates and open interest (OI). Today, we complete the trio with another important metric: futures basis. Each indicator tells us something different: 📌 OI shows the amount of outstanding positions. 📌 Funding reflects payments between traders holding perpetual contracts. 📌 Basis shows the price difference between a contract and its underlying reference price. Together, they provide a more complete picture of what’s happening in the derivatives market. 🔎 What Is Futures Basis? Basis = Futures Price − Spot or Index Price For example, if BTC is trading at $82,500: 🟢 Futures at $82,600 → +$100 basis 🔴 Futures at $82,400 → −$100 basis A positive basis means the contract trades above its reference price; a negative basis means it trades below it. For traditional futures with an expiry date, contango describes futures trading above spot, while backwardation describes futures trading below spot. Contango may reflect financing costs and time to expiry, while backwardation can reflect immediate demand for the asset or selling pressure in futures. But there’s an important distinction in crypto. ⚠️ Perpetual Futures Work Differently Perpetual contracts have no expiry date. Instead, funding helps keep their prices anchored to the index. On OKX, the basis for perpetual contracts is based on the difference between the contract price and the index, with averaging applied in the calculation. That means it may differ from the simple difference between the latest contract price and spot at a particular moment. Basis and funding are related, but they are not the same thing. Basis measures a price difference; funding determines the payments between the two sides of a perpetual contract. 📉 What Did the Latest OKX Data Show? On October 15, the BTCUSDT perpetual basis was: 16:00: −$23.90 Around 20:00: −$31.10 During that period, BTC recovered to around $82,350, yet the contract continued trading below the index. Meanwhile, OI had declined from a previous peak of approximately $2.56 billion to $2.49 billion. Funding fluctuated around zero, moving between positive and negative territory. What does this tell us? BTC recovered while OI declined and the basis remained negative. This is consistent with a recovery occurring alongside a reduction in outstanding positions, but the data alone cannot tell us whether longs or shorts were primarily closed. We would need liquidation and order-flow data to investigate further. 🧩 How to Read Basis, Funding and OI Together 1️⃣ Price rises + OI rises + basis expands positively New positions may be building, with stronger demand for futures relative to spot. Watch for increasingly one-sided positioning. 2️⃣ Price rises + OI falls + basis remains negative Positions may be closing during the recovery. However, OI alone cannot tell us whether longs or shorts are being closed. 3️⃣ Price falls + OI rises + basis turns negative New positions may be opening during the decline. Volume, order flow and price reactions can help clarify the situation. 4️⃣ Funding is positive, but basis is negative There is no contradiction. These metrics measure different things, so they can show different aspects of market positioning at the same time. None of these combinations is a standalone trading signal. Context and price behavior matter. 🎯 The Bottom Line

OI shows the scale of outstanding positions. Funding shows the payment conditions. Basis shows how the contract price compares with its reference price.

Their real value comes from reading them together. If BTC rallies while OI falls and basis remains negative, the next question is whether the move is supported by fresh demand, position closures, or activity in the spot market.

💬 When BTC makes a sharp move, do you check basis alongside funding and OI, or do you mainly focus on price and funding?

🧠 #DYOR | This is not financial advice, just thinking out loud.

🇺🇸 U.S. INFLATION: THE MARKET RECEIVES MIXED SIGNALS September CPI data has given the crypto market another reason to expect increased volatility. 📊Key figures: Monthly CPI: +0.6% — in line with expectations. Annual CPI: 3.7% versus 3.6% expected. Monthly Core CPI: +0.3% versus 0.2% expected. Annual Core CPI: 2.6% versus 2.5% expected. ⛽️ One important detail: gasoline prices rose 9.1% month-over-month, accounting for more than half of the monthly increase in headline CPI. How could this affect the crypto market? Higher-than-expected core inflation could limit the Federal Reserve’s room to ease monetary policy. This may support the U.S. dollar and put pressure on risk assets, including cryptocurrencies. However, the market’s reaction depends not only on the data itself, but also on how it compares with expectations and how Treasury yields, the dollar, and interest rate expectations respond.

❗️ The direction of the market after the initial reaction still needs confirmation.

Price consolidation after a rebound could indicate resilient demand, while a quick move back down would suggest that sellers remain in control. The next few hours should help reveal whether the market can establish a sustained directional move.

💬 What do you think — has the crypto market already priced in the negative inflation data and is preparing to move higher? 👍 OR 👎 Is another wave of selling still ahead?

🧠 #DYOR | This is not financial advice, just thinking out loud.

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Open Interest (OI): What Does Its Rise and Fall Mean?

In our previous article, we explored funding rates — a useful indicator for understanding conditions in the futures market.

Now, let’s look at another important metric: Open Interest (OI). OI helps us understand how the total number of outstanding contracts changes. But there’s one crucial detail: rising OI doesn’t automatically mean the market is bullish, and falling OI doesn’t guarantee a reversal. To interpret it correctly, we need to look at price action alongside it. 🔎 What Is Open Interest? Open Interest is the total number of contracts that have been opened but not yet closed or expired. 👉 When a new contract is opened, OI increases. 👉 When an existing contract is closed, OI decreases. If one participant closes a position while another opens a new one, OI may remain unchanged. Remember: every futures contract has both a LONG and a SHORT side. OI doesn’t tell us that there are more longs than shorts or that one side numerically dominates the market. It measures how many contracts remain open. 📈 What Do Rising and Falling OI Mean? 📉 Rising OI: The number of outstanding contracts is increasing. More positions are being opened than closed, but this doesn’t tell us who is right or which direction price will move next. New contracts can be opened by participants with opposing market views. Falling OI: The number of outstanding contracts is decreasing. This may result from position closures, liquidations, or traders reducing their exposure. However, OI alone cannot tell us exactly who is exiting the market or why. That’s why we need to interpret OI in the context of price action. 🧩 Four Price + OI Combinations 1️⃣ Price rises + OI rises Price is moving up while the number of outstanding contracts increases. This may indicate that the move is accompanied by new positions entering the market. However, it doesn’t guarantee further upside. New positions can exist on both sides, and the market can still reverse sharply. 2️⃣ Price rises + OI falls Price moves higher while outstanding contracts decline. One possible explanation is SHORT covering: traders close short positions by buying back contracts, potentially adding buying pressure. This can happen during a short squeeze, when rising prices force short sellers to exit, amplifying the move. But without additional evidence, we cannot assume that short covering is the actual cause. 3️⃣ Price falls + OI rises Price declines while outstanding contracts increase. This may indicate that new positions are being opened during the sell-off. One possibility is that traders are adding SHORT positions. But others may be opening LONG positions in anticipation of a bounce. OI alone cannot determine which scenario dominates. Price structure, trading volume, and reactions at key levels matter. 4️⃣ Price falls + OI falls Price declines while outstanding contracts decrease. This may indicate LONG closures, liquidations, or traders reducing their exposure. Sometimes the market stabilizes after such a move because some positions have already been closed. But this is not proof that the decline is over. Selling pressure can continue, and new positions may still enter the market. 🎯 How Can We Use OI in Practice? Let’s look at a simple example. Bitcoin rises from $100k to $103k while OI increases. This tells us that the number of outstanding contracts is growing alongside price. But concluding that BTC will inevitably reach $106k would be premature. If price breaks above resistance, holds above it, and trading volume supports the move, we have more reasons to consider a continuation scenario. If the breakout quickly fails and price falls back below the level while OI remains elevated, the market may be vulnerable to a sharp move in the opposite direction. 💰 At PS Trade, we analyze OI alongside price action, market structure, trading volume, and, when relevant, funding rates. The combination provides more context for evaluating a trading scenario. #education

The price of #STRK really shot up over the weekend. But be careful now—if this was just a typical pump-and-dump, the nearest support level #STRKUSDT is in the $0.043–0.053 range. 🧠 #DYOR | This is not financial advice, just thinking out loud.

​Positive vs. Negative Funding: What It Means — and What It Doesn’t Guarantee

High positive funding — time to short? Negative funding — time to buy?

Not so fast. Funding is not a price-direction signal. It’s a tool for understanding what’s happening in the perpetual futures market. ⚙️ How does funding work? On perpetual futures, traders periodically exchange funding payments: 🟢 Positive funding: longs pay shorts. 🔴 Negative funding: shorts pay longs. This mechanism helps keep perpetual futures prices closer to the spot index. The payment depends on the funding rate, position notional, and exchange rules. 📈 Positive funding: Is it time to short? Positive funding generally means perpetual futures are trading at a premium to the spot index. It can indicate strong demand for long exposure, higher holding costs for longs, and potentially greater liquidation risk if the market suddenly drops. But positive funding does NOT mean the price must fall. During a strong uptrend, funding can remain positive for a long time. If spot demand continues to support the price, shorting simply because the rate is high can become an expensive mistake. 📉 Negative funding: Is it time to buy? Negative funding generally means perpetual futures are trading at a discount to the spot index. It can indicate strong demand for short exposure and, under certain conditions, create the potential for a short squeeze. But negative funding does NOT mean the market has bottomed. If selling pressure continues and support levels keep breaking, the price can keep falling. A short squeeze becomes more plausible when the price stops declining, reclaims important levels, and buyers step in. 🧠 How should we actually use funding? Ask three questions: 1️⃣ How extreme is the rate? A mildly positive rate is not the same as an extremely elevated one. 2️⃣ What is the price doing? Is the trend continuing, or is the market showing signs of weakness? 3️⃣ What does it cost to hold the position? Potential price movement is only part of the equation; funding costs matter too. 💰 For example, with a $10,000 position, a funding rate of 0.01% means a payment of approximately $1 per funding interval. At 0.1%, that becomes around $10. This assumes the position is open at settlement and the stated rate applies. Actual intervals and rules vary by exchange. 🎯 The PS Trade takeaway: positive funding doesn’t automatically mean “short,” and negative funding doesn’t automatically mean “long.” Funding provides context. It can help us assess positioning, holding costs, and potential risks, but the price action must confirm the trading scenario. Open interest (OI) is another useful piece of the puzzle — and we’ll break it down separately in the next article.

💬 Do you use funding as an additional filter for your trades, or do you look for entries when the rate becomes extreme?

🧠 DYOR | This is not financial advice, just thinking out loud. #education

🍿 So, is #Starknet actually alive?

At least during yesterday’s market correction, #STRKUSDT barely reacted, and today it continued climbing.

As for what lies ahead, nothing has changed, even though it’s been 5 months since our previous post. 🙂 🔹 First resistance: $0.077 🔹 Above that, we have a liquidity zone at $0.095–0.115. Now the question is: can $STRK push all the way to $0.165? Or will breaking through that liquidity zone prove difficult on the first attempt, with a successful breakout coming only after a correction? 💬 What do you think about ? 🧠 #DYOR | This is not financial advice, just thinking out loud.

It hurts right now. 😬 #BTCUSDT has hit an important support zone at $80,700–81,000. Meanwhile: 📈 BTC.D — rising 📈 USDT.D — rising 😭 alts — crying Fingers crossed that we don't repeat last year's 10/10 scenario and that $BTC manages to hold above $80,000. Because honestly, there is still room to fall. 💰 For now, the key thing is to watch how $BTC reacts to this support zone.

💬 Will $80K hold, or are we heading for another move down?

🧠 #DYOR | This is not financial advice, just thinking out loud.