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Bitcoin's funding rate — the periodic fee perpetual-contract traders pay to maintain long positions — reached its highest point in two weeks, signaling a rise in leveraged bullish positioning.
Orderbook structure has aligned with that optimism.
However, outflows from spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds and unresolved macroeconomic pressures may limit how much upside $BTC can extract from the setup in the short term.
What the Funding Rate Is Actually Saying Funding rates are settled between long and short traders on perpetual futures exchanges at regular intervals.
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