$AVGO took a hit of 15.89% in a single day, now sitting at 416.1, with volume exploding to 61.59 million. Such a drop in candlesticks isn't unusual in semiconductors, but given the current funding fee structure, it seems a lot of traders are making mistakes.
Let’s break down the data. Funding fee is 0.0006265, which is positive, meaning longs are paying. A price collapse alongside a positive fee rate translates to longs still holding on, unwilling to exit, losing both on price and fees. Open interest is at 23,214; that’s not extreme for this volume, but it’s enough to liquidate a batch of high-leverage longs in the dead of night. I checked the order book memory, and the accelerated drop last night coincided exactly with a sudden drop in OI, a classic case of deleveraging panic.
Why is this happening? Many of the longs probably anchored their expectations to Broadcom's GTC narrative from last week, thinking AI chip demand is still strong and that it’s a buy-the-dip opportunity. However, Broadcom trades on Binance under TradFi perpetual logic, where pricing power isn’t in crypto hands but tied to post-market and overnight sessions in the US. Over there, institutions are dumping semiconductors, which forces our contract prices to slide, regardless of how healthy your local funding fee structure is. The situation now is that the US market is dropping first, and our longs are passively catching the falling knife. Once they buy in, they realize the fees are still positive, indicating even more people are getting in, creating a chain reaction. The last time I saw a similar structure was in December of last year with NVDA's pullback, where it also dropped 10%+ alongside a positive fee rate, and it took a two-day OI reduction of 30% to stabilize.
The real opponent for these longs isn’t the shorts; it’s time. Fees are deducted every eight hours, and every bounce sees someone averaging down, but the bounce isn’t enough to offset the fee losses while spot prices continue to slide. I’ve seen this slow bleed too many times; in the end, it’s always the longs stepping on their own toes.
My judgment is simple. If GTC’s orders are realized and not invalidated by earnings reports, this batch of longs might hold on until the right side, but only if the spot doesn’t continue to break down. If the spot drops below the 400 mark, the next wave of liquidations will trigger, and OI will have to get cut down again. That’s when we’ll see negative fee rates, meaning shorts will start piling in, and the real bottom will be near.
Three scenario actions:
Aggressive.
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