Shorts were paying to stay in $BERA , and the price was still around $0.093. At 04:00 UTC on Nov 15, Binance’s BERAUSDT perp settled funding at -0.1767%. The token had already slipped from roughly $0.114 the previous day.

Negative funding tells you who pays to hold the perp. It doesn’t tell you when shorts will have to cover. A break above the first rebound high on spot, with funding still negative, would make a squeeze more plausible.

Until then, collecting funding won’t help much if spot keeps sliding.