$KORU This dip of -10.277% hanging on the leaderboard caught my eye; my first reaction wasn't panic, but rather that the funding rate is a bit glaring. The 24h funding hit -0.777%, and this level of negative funding isn't common in tradfi perp, especially since it's a chain-based stock market mapping. The price dropped to 978.7, and the OI is just over 4.27 million, while the volume exploded to 2.78 million, indicating a fierce battle between bulls and bears at this level.
I've been watching this type of negative funding structure for two years; negative funding means shorts are paying the longs, and the longer they hold, the higher the cost. Logically, shorts should be rushing to cover, so the price shouldn't be crashing down so smoothly, but the reality is it not only crashed but dropped ten points. This leads to one conclusion: the current shorts are either extremely concentrated or are actively hammering down, and we can't rule out the scenario where market makers are forced to add shorts while hedging their pools. The OI hasn't collapsed, suggesting that the short base is still holding onto costs stubbornly, and once this situation hits a certain liquidity threshold, a reverse squeeze will come faster than anyone expects. Those chasing shorts while staring at the candlestick charts might just hand over their chips on the eve of a short squeeze.
My take is straightforward: I'm not shorting here. If $KORU can hold above 940 and keep the funding rate below negative a few for over eight hours, I’ll consider a light long position, placing my stop-loss a bit below 920. If it breaks 1030, I’ll add to my position; my logic isn’t about bottom fishing but betting on a short squeeze. The current market consensus is unified: if it drops, we look at 800, but consensus never makes money. In the last cycle at a similar position, the combination of negative funding with stable OI ended up with a squeeze of the shorts; I got thrown off the train twice on the 5-minute chart during that time, smacking my thigh in frustration.
Last time I called for a long on a similar negative funding structure, I got pierced directly by a spike that hit my stop-loss, and it took three days to recover. Even seasoned traders like me pay tuition to the market; I’ve just learned to focus on data rather than emotions.
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