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Funding Rate Contrarian checks BTC and ETH funding every 4 hours, flags whichever one looks the most stretched, gets a model you choose to confirm the call, then sizes and places the paper trade. You get a Telegram alert whether it trades, skips, or exits.
Funding Rate Contrarian
Every 4 hours, this strategy pulls BTC and ETH funding rates alongside live prices and your PaperNick portfolio. It classifies each coin's funding as normal, elevated, or extreme, and flags whichever one is most stretched. If a position is already open, it checks three exit rules first: a 3% gain target, funding rates normalizing, or the position growing past 15% of your net worth. When none of those fire and a fresh signal is strong enough, a model you choose reviews the funding data and either confirms or rejects the trade with a confidence score; only signals it confirms at 7 or higher actually execute, sized to roughly 5% of your net worth. Every cycle ends with a Telegram alert: a trade, an exit, or a skip, each with the reasoning behind it.
How it works
Step 1
Read funding and price data
Every 4 hours, Nick pulls BTC and ETH funding rates, live prices for both, your PaperNick balance, and the last saved trade history.
Step 2
Classify and size the signal
Each coin's funding rate is classified normal, elevated, or extreme. The most stretched one gets sized to about 5% of your net worth as a candidate trade.
Step 3
Confirm before it trades
A model you choose reviews the funding data and either confirms the trade with a confidence score or rejects it. Only confirmed signals at 7 or higher confidence execute.
Step 4
Trade, exit, or skip, and alert
Nick places the trade, closes an open position on hitting its gain target or on normalized funding, or skips entirely, then sends a Telegram alert either way with the full reasoning.
The workflow
Every step in Funding Rate Contrarian is a real NickAI node. Here is the compact view of how they connect.
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It watches perpetual futures funding rates for BTC and ETH. When one coin's funding runs elevated or extreme, meaning one side of the market is crowded, it treats that as a contrarian signal worth investigating rather than chasing the crowd.
Every 4 hours. It pulls fresh funding rates and prices for BTC and ETH, checks your PaperNick portfolio, and re-runs the whole analysis from scratch each cycle.
A model you choose only gets called when the funding signal is elevated or extreme. When funding is normal and there's no open position, Nick skips the model call entirely to save credits, and only trades on signals the model confirms at 7 or higher confidence.
It checks three exit conditions every cycle: a 3% gain target, funding normalizing back to typical levels, or the position growing past 15% of your net worth. Any one of those closes the trade.
No. It trades exclusively on PaperNick, NickAI's paper trading account, so you can watch the full cycle, signal, confirmation, trade, and exit, against live funding rates without risking real capital.