$EPIC This move is kind of interesting.

On the 15m timeframe it surged 2.90%. Volume directly jumped to 3.49x. The closing price even pierced above the upper edges of roughly 20 of the 5m candles. But the strange part is that OI is dropping—15m -0.01%, 1h -0.25%. As price rises, positions decrease. This looks like a classic short-covering行情, not fresh long entries.

Active trade volume is down 4.1%, the buy/sell ratio is 1.09, and the funding rate is still in the recent high percentile. This structure suggests shorts are being forced to close out—it doesn’t look like someone is truly picking up shares underneath. The whole pool is at an unusual high percentile of 88.7%, ranking #13, with nominal changes also near the front. On the short term, there’s definitely some heat.

In 24h, turnover is 26.3M—depth is sufficient to watch, but don’t treat short-covering as a trend. Once shorts are done closing, who will take over?