$WDC Today it rose 5.8%, quoted at 578.2. The funding rate is exactly 0.00000000, and the open interest is 8938.61. This setup is kind of interesting.
It went up, but the funding rate is zero—suggesting there’s no sign of crowded longs chasing the rally, and no sign of a large number of shorts propping up positions being squeezed. The market has reached some kind of balance while trading on modestly increasing volume. Trading volume is close to $17 million, which is sufficient liquidity for a semiconductor-related underlying.
On the macro front, expectations for the federal funds rate are currently stable in the 5.25%–5.5% range, and after the U.S. dollar index pulled back from its year-to-date high, it has been consolidating around 105. With rate expectations no longer being revised upward, valuation pressure on growth tech stocks has been easing on a temporary basis. The semiconductor sector has recently outperformed the broader market, and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index’s rebound from last year’s low has far exceeded that of the S&P 500.
At the sector level, several AI-heavy names among the Mag7 have already run through a round of gains, and capital has started rotating into semiconductor sub-segments.
$WDC sits along the storage-chip part of the industry chain. Its position in the industry cycle is similar to the late stage of the 2018 second-half inventory correction. In the previous cycle at a similar stage, the stock price bottomed and rebounded 1–2 quarters ahead of guidance turning positive.
Looking at the on-chain contract level, open interest remains at a relatively healthy level, with no evidence of large one-sided positioning.
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