NEAR: shorts are crowded; funding is 51% annualized, though they usually don't pay
shorts do not usually pay funding; it is now at 51% annualized, showing too many short positions and making it more likely that price will rebound.
Extreme funding: 68% of the last 177 beat the market after 24h ·All signal types →
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Why long: funding is unusually high, showing shorts are overcrowded and price is more likely to rebound. Profit mainly comes from the price move, not funding: rates often flip within a day, and realized funding is only a small share. 7-day mean +0.0010%, deviation -4.8σ.
7-day funding trend
Hourly settlementsOver 7 days and 168 settlements, longs paid shorts 139 times and shorts paid longs 29 times; the settled low was −0.0049% and high was +0.0074%.
This rate is below every settlement in this period.
Tracked whales on NEAR
Tracked pool · 25 current addressesLargest Short position: $6.69M, unrealized PnL +$1.36M; at the current rate, funding affects it by about −$139 per hour.
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