What is Open Interest? Open interest is the total number of open positions held by market participants. Open interest sums the total number of contracts (both short and long) that are opened by the market participants and subtracts the number of contracts that are closed. For example, if Sally opens a long position on BTC …
Aggregated Predicted Funding Rate
What are predicted funding rates? As mentioned in the previous article, funding rates are mechanisms to ensure that the price of a perp contract converges with its underlying spot price. Most exchanges show to features, the historical funding rates, the funding rate that was paid in previous intervals, and the predicted or real-time funding rate …
Aggregated Funding Rate
What is Funding Rate? Perpetual Futures, or perps, have been around since 2016, first introduced by BitMex. Today almost all centralized exchanges have introduced perps. Perpetual Futures, as the name suggests, are futures contracts that do not expire. Traditional futures markets involve speculating on the price of an asset at a certain expiration date. Hence, …
What is Open Interest and how to use it for trading?
In the cryptocurrency market, derivatives trading is becoming more popular than ever. Therefore, to make our traders’ lives easier, Coinalyze added some new indicators to the charts. Among the most important is definitely Open Interest. What is open interest and how to use it in derivatives trading is the thing that we are about to …
The Types Of Developments That Could Cause A Crypto Surge
Whether you’re buying up cryptocurrency to store in a wallet of your choice, or you’re exploring cryptocurrency futures, if you’re investing, you’re hoping to see lucrative gains. With many other types of investment, more gradual growth is the hope or expectation. But given the nature of cryptocurrencies as commodities that are still introducing themselves to …
The Cumulative Volume Delta (CVD) indicator: Analyzing Buyer and Seller Activities
To the untrained eyes, candlestick formations can be haphazard. However, a level deeper there is a unique story at each point of time. Depending on a trader’s preferred trading style, time frame, tools and even indicators, a technical chart is vital for a chartist. Since the chart is a complete representation of all fundamental and/or …
Cryptocurrency Futures Trading Guide
Since we have added cryptocurrency futures markets we are obliged to introduce them to those who are not familiar with the concept. Cryptocurrency futures contracts trading When trading cryptocurrency futures, a trader signs a contract with a predetermined outcome. That means that a trader doesn’t exchange one cryptocurrency for another. He doesn’t even exchange it …
How to use a social trading network when trading cryptocurrencies
In simple terms, social trading is a form of investment or trading where traders observe the trading pattern or behavior of experts and other traders with the free-will to replicate the observed strategies in their investment. This has nothing to do with handing over investment funds into the hand of a third party. Social trading …
Buy vs Sell Volume and Buy vs Sell Count Indicators – The New and Better Way to Analyze the Trading Volume
If you are using Coinalyze you may have run into some fresh additions in the technical indicators department. We have implemented Buy vs Sell Volume and Buy vs Sell Count indicators. Visually, these two indicators look similar to the regular volume bars. However, there is a significant difference. In order to explain thoroughly what each …
Cryptocurrency Arbitrage
If you are not familiar with arbitrage in cryptocurrency trading, allow us to introduce you to this strategy through the most simple possible definition. Arbitrage is a strategy where traders make profits by making use of the coin’s price imbalance. Sounds simple, right? Well, it is but it is not so basic as the definition …