NEGATIVE FUNDING RATE SCREENER
Negative funding is a condition, not a direction call.
Money Radar screens unusual Binance USDT perpetual markets without assuming that a negative funding rate means price must rise. It normalizes funding, adds short-term open interest, closed 15m structure, relative volume and mark/index basis, then ranks which markets deserve research attention first.
What negative funding tells you — and what it does not
On Binance USDT perpetual futures, negative funding generally means shorts pay longs at the funding event. That can reflect one-sided positioning or a derivatives dislocation, but the funding sign by itself does not identify the next price direction.
That is why Money Radar does not use a rule such as “negative funding = buy.” Funding is one factor inside a broader anomaly-ranking workflow.
Five observations in one ranked view
Funding is converted to an 8-hour equivalent when settlement intervals differ so unusually negative contracts can be compared more consistently.
Recent OI change adds positioning context: is exposure expanding, contracting or barely moving around the same frozen reference time?
The latest completed 15-minute bar provides price-structure context without relying on an unfinished candle.
Volume is compared with the prior 20 completed bars and mark/index basis adds another view of derivatives dislocation.
Why this is different from sorting a funding table
A standard funding-rate table can tell you which contracts have the lowest current rate. Money Radar asks a different question: among unusual derivatives conditions, which markets are simultaneously unusual enough across funding, positioning, structure, participation and basis to inspect first?
The output is a research-priority score. Directional analysis and risk management remain separate decisions.
Point-in-time evidence so far
completed frozen snapshots in the current published sample
matured +1h candidates
Top-5 median absolute +1h movement, n=110
remaining ranked candidates median absolute +1h movement, n=286
This is descriptive movement separation inside the candidate set, not a directional win rate, trading return, probability or proof of a durable edge. Read the research log →
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