Bottom line: APT’s funding rates are negative on both exchanges, so shorts are paying. But the price has fallen more than 10% in 24 hours, making a long position still feel like catching a falling knife.
Binance’s funding rate is -0.0392%, and OKX’s is -0.0121%. Based on each exchange’s settlement interval, shorts are paying longs on both platforms. Binance’s more deeply negative rate indicates that shorts there are bearing higher costs; they aren’t making easy profits.
APT is currently trading at around $0.46. Its 24-hour declines on Binance and OKX are both around 10%, with the highs and lows clustered in the $0.427–$0.516 range. Negative funding rates signal crowded shorts, but don’t mean the market is about to reverse. Before chasing longs, first see whether the downtrend has stopped.
Will you wait for APT to stop falling, or keep watching the cost basis for shorts?
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