$SOXS 24 hours down 3.549%, current price is 49.73. Prices are falling, but the funding rate is negative, -0.00018013.

Shorts are paying longs, and bearish sentiment is building up. The core of the Trump trade is policy uncertainty— the market prices in risk-off sentiment in advance into these inverse ETFs. Shorts are crowded, but the price hasn’t broken down yet, which suggests bulls and bears are in a stalemate.

Single-signal view: OI is 375,000 contracts, but turnover isn’t dramatic enough. If Trump-related remarks don’t result in any concrete negative policy catalyst, this area is prone to a short squeeze. The counterpoint is that if policy risk is confirmed as the real deal, shorts will add more and push the price through.

Second-order effects: Bulls are collecting funding while holding unrealized losses. Once their patience runs out, they may withdraw first. I’m currently watching and not in a rush to open a short. If the price breaks below the integer level of 49.5 and the funding rate turns positive, I will go short with 5x leverage. My stop-loss will be at 49.9, and take-profit at 48.8. Position size will be no more than 10%.

Trading tag: #TradFi #链上美股 #SOXS

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