Long/Short Ratio

The ratio of accounts or positions long versus short a perpetual. Extremes flag crowded trades that often resolve violently.

The long/short ratio measures positioning in a perpetual futures market: how much of the open book (by accounts or by position size) is long versus short. Binance publishes it two ways, for all accounts and for its top traders by size, and the divergence between the two is often more useful than either alone: when the big book leans opposite to retail, the big book is usually better informed over the next few hours. Extreme readings mark crowded trades; combined with funding and open interest they flag squeeze risk. We show both series plus the taker buy/sell aggressor flow on every symbol page.

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Funding Rate
Periodic payment between perpetual futures longs and shorts that keeps the contr...
Open Interest
Total notional value of all open futures positions at a given moment....
Basis
Price gap between a futures contract and its underlying spot index....
Liquidation
Forced closure of a leveraged position when its margin is exhausted....
Profit Factor
Ratio of gross winning trades to gross losing trades. Above 1 means the strategy...
Win Rate
Percentage of trades that closed profitably....

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