🚨 Funding ZRO +88%/year: long crowd is holding up or about to break?
I just glanced at the funding chart and was startled: $ZRO đ is sitting around ~+0,0101% per hour, which works out to ~+88% per year. That number is definitely not normal.
In simple terms: funding is the fee paid by the side with more positions (the crowd) to the other side every few hours. Here, the long side (betting on price going up) is paying the short side (betting on price going down). That usually means longs are overcrowded and under pressure. Meanwhile, ZRO is down -7,4% over 24 hours, volume is ~26,9 million USD, and Open Interest (total value of open positions) is ~63,68 million USD.
I can’t say for sure, but this kind of “out-of-phase” situation often leaves a trap: if price bounces back, the longs that are already heavily loaded could be forced to close positions in large numbers, creating a squeeze effect (price spikes due to forced buy orders). Or, if the long side breaks first, liquidations could hit downward.
BTC: during the earnings season, big money is holding back
This morning I opened the app and saw $BTC slightly tick up +0.12%, like the whole market is holding its breath. Everyone talks about earnings season, but big money keeps standing on the sidelines, watching.
I remember that before each earnings season, capital often leaves risky assets to wait for the results. With Vol at $1.56 billion but the price staying flat—exactly like the afternoon market.
I don’t know this time whether BTC will break out or keep ranging. What is everyone thinking?
Reference information only, not investment advice. DYOR.
This profession teaches me something a bit blunt: money isn’t lost because you analyzed wrong; it’s lost because you enter a trade when your hands are itchy.
I’ve had nights where I sat watching the candles for hours, seeing them inch forward bit by bit, while my stomach burned like fire. Not because there was a beautiful setup, but because I was afraid that standing aside would make me miss out. That’s when ego speaks up. I forced a trade no matter what, and then the market corrected me by charging the price of my lack of patience.
CZ has a saying, roughly, that the market is a place where money moves from the impatient to the patient. I read it a long time ago, but it took a few accounts for me to truly understand. A good hunter doesn’t shoot the first prey that runs past. They wait for the right distance.