This is an investment funding mechanism designed to regulate prices on perpetual futures contracts to synchronize them with underlying assets in the spot market. It ensures consistency in the contract prices (such as BTC/USDT) with the market value of BTC funding at the time of the transaction to avoid significant disparities. The fewer sellers, the higher the Funding Rate. The same applies in reverse situations. During times of panic, when many traders wish to take short positions, buyers receive generous rewards. Such market spikes occur quite frequently, even within a single day.
The indicator can be used as follows:
When funding rates are exaggerated (in this case, when longs are paid), this may be a signal for correction, but funding should not be considered a trade signal. Instead, attention should be paid to other instruments, and if they indicate a possible correction with exaggerated funding, a decision to enter a short trade should be made. The illustration demonstrates how this looks in practice. Additionally, the image shows a filter function where you can set the threshold from which the funding will be exaggerated.
Now, let's analyze a trade. The funding rate shows extreme exaggeration (the filter is used, and the funding above our set value is highlighted in yellow, indicating an anomaly), but the price does not immediately drop. We look at the next indicator, CVD, which shows a divergence from the quote, meaning the price updates highs while CVD moves downward. This indicates a decrease in purchasing power and exhaustion, after which we can open a short trade. As seen, the price starts to decline.
In this example, we examined the interaction of funding with the CVD (Cumulative Volume Delta) indicator, but it can be used with a variety of other indicators.