Funding rates across several major perpetual futures markets have flipped negative, indicating short positioning has started to outweigh longs. Historically, extended negative funding has sometimes preceded short squeezes when price fails to follow through to the downside.
Open interest has held relatively steady through the shift, suggesting this is more a repositioning of existing traders than a wave of fresh capital entering short. Traders watching liquidation heatmaps note a cluster of leveraged short positions sitting just above current price.
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