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The Funding Trap: How Negative Funding Rates Predict Short Squeezes
Extreme negative funding rates mean short sellers are paying a premium to stay short. Here's how to read that as an early short-squeeze warning.
How to Spot Crypto Liquidation Cascades: The Open Interest to Volume (OI/Vol) Ratio Guide
Why raw Open Interest is a misleading signal on its own, and how the OI/Vol ratio helps quantitative traders spot over-leveraged markets primed for a liquidation cascade.
Spot Borrow Rates: The Overlooked Signal Behind Every Short Squeeze
When margin borrow pools dry up and borrow APR spikes, short sellers are running out of inventory to sell. Here's how to read spot borrow as a squeeze precursor.
Spot/Perp Basis: How to Tell a Real Rally From a Synthetic Pump
The spread between spot and perpetual futures prices reveals whether a breakout is driven by real spot buying or leveraged speculation alone.