Derivatives data, free.

What you get

• Current and historical funding rate, with the annualised figure and the next settlement
• Open interest over time, aligned to the same bars as price
• Global and top-trader long/short positioning
• Taker buy/sell flow
• A live liquidation feed for the session
• A market-regime reading that combines price direction with open-interest direction
• Mark and index price with the basis between them
• History for funding and open interest, aligned to the chart’s own bars rather than shown separately

Why this is usually paid for

Derivatives context is usually sold as a data product rather than bundled into a chart. Sites that aggregate funding and open interest tend to gate history, resolution or the ability to see more than one venue.

Basis reads it from the exchanges’ own public endpoints, which are free, and displays it next to the chart it belongs to. There is nothing to resell.

The value is not in the numbers being rare — anyone can fetch them — but in them sitting beside the price they explain, on the same clock. Funding on one screen and price on another is two facts; funding under the candle that produced it is a reading.

How to use it

1. 1

   Read price and open interest together

   Price up with open interest up is new money entering long. Price up with open interest down is shorts closing — a squeeze, which ends when the shorts run out. Those two look identical on a candle chart.

2. 2

   Use funding as a positioning read

   Persistently positive funding means longs are paying to stay long, which is a crowded side. It is not a timing signal on its own; it is a statement about who is exposed.

3. 3

   Watch liquidations for the flush

   A cluster of liquidations at a level is forced selling, not chosen selling. Those moves overshoot and frequently retrace, which is a different thing from a move driven by decisions.

4. 4

   Check the venue

   Funding and open interest are per-exchange. A crowded position on one venue is not necessarily crowded everywhere, and the panel is tagged with which venue it is reading.

Questions

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