$AKE Normally the funding rate changes every hour—staying negative, basically for two purposes. First, to force a short squeeze and give short sellers a fatal blow, discouraging others from shorting. Second, it’s meant to attract a large number of retail traders, making them think going long allows them to profit from the funding fees. They’re about to start laying the trap. Remember this: once the timing changes from 8 hours or 4 hours down to 1 hour, and it’s still extremely negative funding, don’t enter to take the bag. Because they can deliver a fatal hit to shorts at any moment, with a probability of rallying several hundred points, instantly going to zero—leaving you no time to close your position. They can just casually put out an announcement saying the hackers attacked.