Ilvin Mordan

While everyone was seeing red candles, I began to gather evidence.
I’m not a professional trader.
I don’t work for an investment fund.
I’m a data engineer.
And maybe that’s why I reacted differently when the dip started.
While many were debating whether $ETH was cheap or pricey, I decided to take a different route:
Document.
Register.
Analyze.
Observe.
What started as a simple trade turned into a real-time market study.
And what I found completely changed my perspective on cryptocurrencies.

While most traders look at candlesticks, support, resistance, and price patterns, there's one indicator that's visible to everyone on Binance, yet few actually use: the Funding Rate.
I was one of them.
For a long time, I thought that if ETH was in an attractive buy zone, that was enough to enter the market. But a recent dip taught me something important: the price doesn't tell the whole story.
What is the Funding Rate?
The Funding Rate is a mechanism used in perpetual contracts to keep the futures price close to the actual asset price.

The ETH plunge taught a brutal lesson: the market punishes greed before it punishes analysis errors.
While Ethereum was tanking and the market was bleeding red, thousands of traders thought they were losing because of the market.
The reality hit way harder.
Many didn’t lose due to the drop.
They lost because of how they chose to tackle it.
The same market, completely different outcomes.
During the recent crash, some traders saw their positions drop by 5%, 10%, or even more.