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Glossary · Funding rate

What is the funding rate?

The funding rate is a periodic payment between longs and shorts that keeps a perpetual future's price close to spot. When it is positive, longs pay shorts.

What does high funding mean?

Persistently high positive funding means longs are crowded and paying to stay in, and negative funding means the opposite. Markov shows funding from a CEX on the free Derivatives tool (falling back to Hyperliquid where that venue is refused), and annualizes it as a straight-line estimate that assumes the current rate holds.

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