$FLNC 24 hours fell 1.451%, current price is 10.87. The funding rate is still positive at 0.0000145. Longs are paying shorts; although the fee is small, it hasn’t turned negative. For this reason, I’m not too bearish.

From the perspective of micro capital flows: the trading volume is 794,500, the open interest is 134,300. While the price only dipped slightly, the funding rate didn’t flip negative. This suggests the shorts haven’t completely driven the longs out. It looks more like the sell pressure on the screen was pushed down with longs still holding on at low cost, and shorts aren’t adding aggressively—both sides are just grinding.

This kind of structure is the most annoying: chasing shorts can easily grind you down, and chasing longs doesn’t get any funding to compensate.

The strongest counter-evidence is this: if open interest continues to stack up from here and the price breaks down, with the funding rate turning negative, that would mean shorts are starting to build positions in concentration. In that case, my bullish view that hasn’t yet surrendered would be invalid. Since this negative funding rate hasn’t appeared yet, for now I’m just being cautious.

In the second-order effects, every day longs keep absorbing the small funding fee is giving shorts time. If shorts aren’t pushing hard, it’s likely because the price drop isn’t deep enough. Once a break occurs with increased volume, that small fee will quickly flip, and liquidity will concentrate toward the shorts.

What I’m doing right now is waiting. If the price doesn’t break below around 10.87, I won’t touch shorts. If the funding rate turns negative and sells intensify with heavy volume, then trying a short position would make sense. Looking only at the current combination, it’s not worth entering.

Trading tag: #TradFi #链上美股 #FLNC

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