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🌪️ The Everlasting Engine: The Dominance of Futures Volume Over Spot
In today's crypto economy, Perpetual Futures (Perps) contracts serve as the main driver of price discovery, often producing daily volumes that are three to four times greater than the underlying spot market. Grasping this supremacy is crucial for dedicated traders.
The Advantage of Leverage
Perpetual contracts are preferred due to their high capital efficiency and the capacity to hold positions indefinitely, unlike conventional futures that come with expiration dates. This enables institutions and major liquidity providers to utilize leverage effectively and implement complex hedging strategies for their spot assets.
The Funding Rate: The Market’s Rhythm
The Funding Rate is essential to the Perps market; it’s a system that ensures the futures price stays in line with the spot price.
A significantly high funding rate indicates that Longs are compensating Shorts, which suggests an overabundance of bullish leverage.
A negative funding rate indicates that Shorts are compensating Longs, reflecting bearish control.
Examining extended, high funding rates is essential. Persistently elevated positive rates frequently signal steep price declines (a "long squeeze") as excessively leveraged positions are forced to close. Price movement is more and more influenced by this derivatives activity. For traders, the Funding Rate represents the market's current agreement on leverage and serves as an essential instrument for anticipating possible volatility.
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