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Bitcoin Long Squeeze Incoming? Funding Rates Surge Up

Keshav Verma
Keshav Verma
1 year ago
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On-chain data shows the Bitcoin funding rates have observed a rise again, suggesting that another long squeeze may be in store for the crypto.

Bitcoin Funding Rates Show Relatively High Positive Value

As explained by an analyst in a CryptoQaunt post, the current positive funding rates may mean the price could observe a decline soon.

The “funding rate” is an indicator that measures the periodic fee that Bitcoin futures traders are paying each other.

When the value of this metric is greater than zero, it means long traders are paying a premium to short investors to hold on to their positions right now. This trend therefore suggests that the majority sentiment is bullish at the moment.

On the other hand, negative values of the indicator imply that a bearish sentiment is more dominant as shorts are paying longs currently.

Now, here is a chart that shows the trend in the Bitcoin funding rates (72-hour MA) in the year 2022 so far:

Bitcoin Funding Rates

Looks like the value of the metric has surged up recently | Source: CryptoQuant

As you can see in the above graph, the quant has marked the points where the Bitcoin funding rates reached a peak during the last few months.

It seems like shortly after relatively high positive funding rates occurred, the price of the crypto observed a steep decline.

Related Reading | Five Months Of Fear: When Will The Bitcoin Carnage End?

A long squeeze is a mass leverage flush event where long liquidations cascade together. Such a squeeze can sharply drive the price down and the above instances seem to have been marked by this squeeze.

A short squeeze, on the contrary, can rather uplift the price. The analyst therefore argues that the Bitcoin market will require negative funding rates if the price has to observe any real improvements.

However, as longs are currently dominating the futures market, a long squeeze will need to happen to take the funding rate down and pile up shorts.

Related Reading | Bitcoin Institutional Outflows Near One-Year Highs, More Downside Coming?

But with that, the price of the crypto may also suffer another plunge down just like the instances earlier in the year.

BTC Price

At the time of writing, Bitcoin’s price floats around $39.5k, down 1% in the last seven days. Over the past month, the crypto has lost 15% in value.

The below chart shows the trend in the price of the coin over the last five days.

Bitcoin Price Chart

The price of BTC seems to have observed a sharp rise in the past twenty-four hours | Source: BTCUSD on TradngView

Bitcoin has been struggling for many months now and the price has recently shown no signs of any real recovery as it remains stuck below the $40k level.

Featured image from Unsplash.com, charts from TradingView.com, CryptoQuant.com
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Keshav is currently a senior writer at NewsBTC and has been attached to the website since June 14, 2021.

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Keshav has been writing for many years, first as a hobbyist and later as a freelancer. He has experience working in a variety of niches, even fiction at one point, but the cryptocurrency industry has been the longest he has been attached to.

In terms of official educational qualifications, Keshav holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics from one of the premier institutes of India, the University of Delhi (DU). He started the degree with an aim of eventually making a career in Physics, but the onset of COVID led to a shift in plans. The virus meant that the college classes had to be delivered in the online-mode and with it came free time for him to explore other passions.

Initially only seeking to make some beer money, Keshav unexpectedly landed clients offering real projects, after which there was no looking back. Writing was something he had always enjoyed and to be able to do it for a living was like a dream come true.

Keshav completed his Physics degree in 2022 and has been focusing on his writing career since, but that doesn’t mean his passion for Physics has ended. He eventually plans to re-enter university to obtain a masters degree in the same field, but perhaps only to satiate his own interest rather than for using it as a means to find employment..

Keshav has found blockchain and its concepts fascinating ever since he started going down the rabbit-hole back in 2020. On-chain analysis in particular has been something he likes to research more about, which is why his NewsBTC pieces tend to involve it in some form.

Being of the science background, Keshav likes if concepts are clear and consistent, so he generally explains the indicators he talks about in a bit of detail so that the readers can perhaps come out having understood and learnt something new.

As for hobbies, Keshav is super into football, anime, and videogames. He enjoys football not only as a watcher, but also as a player. For games, Keshav generally tends towards enjoying singleplayer adventures, with EA FC (formerly FIFA) being the only online game he is active in. Though, perhaps due to being ultra-focused on the game, he is today a semi-pro on the EA FC scene, regularly participating in tournaments and sometimes even taking back prize money.

Because of his enthusiasm for anime and games, he also self-learned Japanese along the way to consume some of the untranslated gems out there. The skill didn’t merely remain as just a hobby, either, as he put it to productive use during his exploration for small-time gigs at the start of COVID, fulfilling a couple of Japanese-to-English translation jobs.

Keshav is also big into fitness, with agility and acceleration-related workouts making a big part of his program due to the relevance they have in football. On top of that, he also has a more traditional strength based program for the gym, which he does to maintain an overall fitness level of his body.

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