Professional trader & market researcher. My own scanner watches the whole futures board 24/7. I publish measurements - plus a weekly scorecard with misses.
Forced exits are fuel: short wipes push price up, long cascades accelerate the fade. Numbers are lower bounds — the exchange reports at most one order per second per symbol.
Detected at +8.5%/1h on $149M daily volume at the time of detection. Peak: +149% (1004 min after detection). Low after: -7%. Open interest grew ×3.83 during the move — leverage piled in. Liquidations on the way: $4,019,010 shorts vs $2,545,742 longs.
Textbook sequence — spike, pile-in, exhaustion. Every minute of it was on PumpRadar.
VTHO -1.28% per 8h → shorts pay, crowd is short ANIME -0.49% per 8h → shorts pay, crowd is short NEWT -0.48% per 8h → shorts pay, crowd is short LSK -0.40% per 8h → shorts pay, crowd is short BIRB -0.35% per 8h → shorts pay, crowd is short
Current funding rates. Measured 10:04 UTC.
When one side pays this much per 8h, that side is crowded — and crowded sides get squeezed hardest when price turns.
🧾 Accountability post — this week’s calls, graded by the tape.
IOST — flagged mid-move at +8.1%/1h → peaked +131.3% after the post · now +123.0% SOPH — flagged mid-move at +8.9%/1h → peaked +80.0% after the post · now -28.8% USELESS — flagged mid-move at +7.8%/1h → peaked +36.9% after the post · now +5.6% AKE — flagged mid-move at +5.9%/1h → peaked +35.0% after the post · now -3.8% UAI — flagged mid-move at +8.6%/1h → peaked +27.9% after the post · now +17.0% HEMI — flagged mid-move at +10.5%/1h → peaked +13.0% after the post · now -15.5% PUMP — flagged mid-move at +10.5%/1h → peaked +4.5% after the post · now +3.7% XAN — flagged mid-move at +8.3%/1h → peaked +4.0% after the post · now -46.9% DOOD — flagged mid-move at +6.8%/1h → peaked +3.4% after the post · now -25.7% ORCA — flagged mid-move at +11.1%/1h → peaked -2.3% after the post · now -11.4%
Scoreboard: 5/10 truly ran after the flag (peak ≥ +15%), 6/10 have since fallen below the flag price. Momentum is real — and so is the fade. We publish both.
The tape grades everyone eventually. We just publish our report card weekly.
Detected at +8.4%/1h on $15M daily volume at the time of detection. Peak: +51% (183 min after detection). Low after: -0%. Open interest grew ×5.51 during the move — leverage piled in. Liquidations on the way: $1,885,228 shorts vs $445,033 longs.
Different coin, same skeleton: ignition, chase, exhaustion, fade. The tape keeps receipts.
GPRO +0.24% per 8h → longs pay, crowd is long AKE -0.24% per 8h → shorts pay, crowd is short BOT +0.23% per 8h → longs pay, crowd is long TBT -0.20% per 8h → shorts pay, crowd is short TEAM +0.19% per 8h → longs pay, crowd is long
Current funding rates. Measured 10:08 UTC.
Balanced books turn slowly; lopsided ones snap. These are the lopsided ones.