Funding Rate Trading
Trade based on perpetual futures funding rate signals. Use when funding is extreme, finding market sentiment, or earning funding payments.
Install
$ agentstack add skill-ske-labs-agent-trading-skills-funding-rate-trading ✓ scanned · ✓ verified — works with Claude Code, Cursor, and more.
Security review
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- ✓ Prompt-injection patterns
- ✓ Secret / credential exfiltration
- ✓ Dangerous shell & filesystem operations
- ✓ Untrusted network calls
- ✓ Known-malicious package signatures
What it can access
- ✓ Network access No
- ✓ Filesystem access No
- ✓ Shell / process execution No
- ✓ Environment & secrets No
- ✓ Dynamic code execution No
From automated source analysis of v0.1.0. “Used” means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it’s unsafe.
About
Funding Rate Trading
Perpetual futures use funding rates to keep price aligned with spot -- creating trading signals and arbitrage opportunities.
Funding Rate Basics
- Positive funding: Longs pay shorts (market is bullish/overleveraged long)
- Negative funding: Shorts pay longs (market is bearish/overleveraged short)
- Paid every 8 hours; 0.01% per 8h ~ 10.95% APR
Funding Rate Signals
| Funding Rate | Market Sentiment | Trade Idea | | ----------------------- | -------------------- | ---------------- | | Very Positive (>0.05%) | Overleveraged longs | Contrarian short | | Positive (0.01-0.05%) | Bullish | No signal | | Neutral (~0.01%) | Balanced | No signal | | Negative ( 20%; close when rate normalizes
2. Extreme Funding Reversal
- Very high positive funding + resistance = strong short signal
- Very negative funding + support = strong long signal
- Wait for liquidation cascade to confirm
3. Funding as Confirmation
- Use funding direction to confirm or reject a technical setup
- High funding aligning with overbought RSI strengthens reversal case
Workflow
- Get current funding rate data:
get_financial_news(topic="BTC perpetual funding rate Binance Bybit")- Check spot price and momentum:
get_candles(symbol="BTC/USD", exchange="binance", interval="4h", count=1)
get_indicators(indicator_code="rsi", symbol="BTC/USD", exchange="binance", interval="4h")- Assess futures-spot premium:
get_financial_news(topic="BTC futures premium spot basis")- Calculate arb APR if funding is extreme: APR = rate x 3 x 365.
- Report: funding regime (extreme/normal), sentiment implication, arb APR if applicable, and any contrarian trade setup with technical confirmation.
Key Rules
- NEVER enter funding arb without confirming the rate has been sustained (check multi-day average, not a single 8h print)
- NEVER ignore that funding can flip direction -- monitor continuously after entry
- Extreme funding often precedes reversals; when "everyone is long," liquidation cascades follow
- Funding arb requires positions on the same exchange to avoid transfer/timing risk
Related Skills
- arbitrage-trading -- funding arb is a specific delta-neutral arbitrage strategy
- on-chain-analysis -- exchange flow data confirms leverage buildup behind funding extremes
Source & license
This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.
- Author: SKE-Labs
- Source: SKE-Labs/agent-trading-skills
- License: Apache-2.0
Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.
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Versions
- v0.1.0 Imported from the upstream source.