INTC is up 4.83%, price at 113.31, but the funding fee is only 0.00000245—basically zero. The OI is at 220,000 contracts, with trading volume of 140 million. I bet nobody on either the long or short side on this board is feeling comfortable today.
It’s up 4.8 percentage points, but the funding fee barely moved. That means this rally wasn’t pushed by retail FOMO. It looks more like a big order slammed the price up, while the opposing side is either flat-short or passively taking. Who’s holding the order? The shorts. Who’s at a disadvantage? Still the shorts. The funding fee is positive, but the magnitude is tiny. In plain language: longs aren’t paying; shorts are carrying, but not yet to the liquidation wall. The whole market is in a delicate balance.
Once many people turn bullish, they start shouting about a breakout. I don’t buy it. INTC is a tradFi underlying—pricing power is in the hands of the QQQ and SPX crowd. As for the Trump tariff negotiations, there’s nothing new on that front. The chip sector’s strength last night was propped up by the lingering tailwind from TSMC’s earnings, not because INTC itself delivered some positive surprise. If you ask me what’s driving this move, one word: shorts are carrying, and the system is basically auto-siphoning funds.
Now the OI is still at 220,000 and hasn’t shrunk, meaning the shorts haven’t run, and no new longs have stepped in to add. In other words, the whole setup just hangs there waiting for someone to break it. Next, either it surges to squeeze the shorts, or it falls back to 110 to reshuffle. My read is: if Trump posts another tweet about chip tariffs, INTC could get slammed back to 108, or even lower. Right now price is 113.3, close to the strong resistance zone around 115—but the downside room is actually bigger, because the OI is heavily concentrated between 105 and 110.
In terms of specific execution, I’m not planning to go long or short myself right now—I’ll wait. If INTC can get smashed back into the 108 area, and if the OI is still above 200,000, I’ll consider adding a small long position. I’ll set a stop-loss below 105, with a target of 120. If price jumps straight above 116, I won’t chase—because those arbitrage players will most likely unload around 120.
Let me say something against common sense: this doesn’t look like a main-force rally; it looks like the system is automatically looking for a counterparty.
Just watch the direction of Trump.
Three-scenario action summary:
- Aggressive: wait for a pullback near 108 to go long, 3x leverage; stop-loss at 105; take-profit at 120.
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