Funding rates explained: what the number means
What a positive or negative funding rate means, why the same coin pays differently on each exchange, and how to compare rates fairly across venues.
Funding rates, liquidations and leverage
What funding rates and liquidations say about leverage in the crypto market, how to read them across exchanges, and how to get alerted when they change.
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Get a Telegram alert when a funding rate flips negative
Set an alert that tells you when a perpetual's funding rate crosses zero, on the exchange you trade, delivered to Telegram, Discord, email or a webhook.
Liquidation cascades explained
Why forced selling feeds on itself, how to see a cascade forming in live liquidation data, and how to get an alert when one starts on a coin you follow.
More from the Academy
- Getting startedSet up your first crypto price alert, choose where it reaches you, and see why one coin's price differs from one exchange to the next. Step-by-step guides.
- ScannersHow CoinBeacon's scanners find coins that are trending, pumping or dumping, with the exact rules each one uses, so you can judge a signal yourself.
- Technical analysisWhat prices did after RSI, MACD, Supertrend, moving-average, Bollinger and volume signals on hundreds of coins, measured from CoinBeacon's Indicator Edge.
Try it on live data
Every tool these guides describe runs on the live market. Most open without an account; alerts need a free one.