Thread: How funding rates are used to engineer price moves

Using $RIVER as an example
this is not an isolated case.
Variations of this funding-rate-driven setup
have appeared across many tokens over the past two years.

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Most traders misunderstand funding rates.

Funding does not predict direction.

It reflects position imbalance —
and that imbalance can be intentionally created. 2/8

Step one is simple:

Keep price suppressed while pushing funding deeply negative.

This concentrates short positions
and builds the belief that
“negative funding = inevitable bounce”.