$EGLD This location is a bit interesting.

In 15m, it surged 1.45%, and the volume directly hit 2.99x. The Z value is 2.45, and the closing price broke above the upper boundary of the past ~20 5m candles. Active order imbalance is -41.8%, and the buy/sell ratio is 2.44—not eaten out by passive orders, but actively bought up.

More importantly, it’s the OI. In 15m, +0.38%; in 1h, +1.16%. Nominal change is 4.72%, abnormal percentile 97.4%, and the pool’s abnormal count is #4. Across multiple consecutive cycles, OI is stacking while price is also rising—this is a classic structure of new leveraged long entries, not short-covering pushing.

The funding rate is already at a recent high percentile. This signal has two sides: on one hand, it indicates strong long sentiment and good follow-through; on the other, it means that if price stalls, the funding premium is the first bubble to get squeezed.

The 24h turnover is 13.68M—not a large pool. OI nominal change ranks #65, but the abnormal percentile jumps to #4—showing the absolute size isn’t huge, yet relative to its own history it’s extremely stretched, nearing the edge of its historical range.

Overall a bullish structure, but we’ve entered the stage where you need to closely watch the funding rate and the closing/position-reduction rhythm. When it rallies too smoothly, it’s often when leverage is the most crowded.