⚠️ Hourly Funding Is a Ban on Comfortable Positioning
If funding turns hourly, the position stops being comfortable. Mistakes get charged more often, and the exchange can tighten the funding cycle at any moment in an already distorted market. If you are already in the trade, that can hurt.
By default, this kind of funding is better ignored. It is not the environment for passive holding and hoping the market will do the work for you.
At Crypto-Resources, hourly funding is filtered the same way as deeply negative funding. I deliberately restrict these conditions and use them as a hard filter. As a result, most setups do not pass any further.
If a signal still passes, an extra layer of protection is used: a hedge is opened one minute before funding is charged and closed immediately after settlement. This is not there to make the strategy look sophisticated. It is there to avoid paying for a distorted market before price has shown a real breakdown.
If the market is already so imbalanced that funding is being charged too often, fighting that regime without confirmation is a weak trade.
📍 Hyperliquid is a separate case. Hourly funding is the default there. But that does not mean the same logic should be applied blindly to altcoins. On Hyperliquid, there is generally little reason to trade altcoins through this framework.
✅ Hourly funding is not a reason to look for an entry. It is a reason to first look for a reason not to enter.