The $SOXS price is still climbing, but the futures contract market has already leaked air—an active-transaction “scale” has tipped entirely toward the seller. The buy side can’t even claim half the market. The willpower of the chase buyers shrank by nearly 40% within seven hours: the more aggressively it rallies, the thicker the knife being handed to the shorts. The fee rate is pretending to be dead below the zero line. The longs can’t even accumulate chips to keep raising the price. With the contract’s “balance scale,” you can tell at a glance which side it’s weighted toward. This rebound is just a blank check—whoever comes to take it will end up paying the bill.