Funding Rate

The periodic fee between longs and shorts keeping crypto perpetuals near spot price.

Related terms

FuturesStandardized exchange contracts to buy/sell at a set date — the institutional derivatives arena.
Fair Value Gap (FVG)The 3-candle imbalance: a price range skipped by one violent candle — a magnet for revisits.
FakeoutA breakout that instantly fails — usually a liquidity sweep in disguise. The close tells the truth.
Fear & Greed IndexSentiment gauge 0–100. Extremes are contrarian: max fear ≈ bottoms, max greed ≈ tops.
Fibonacci ExtensionLevels beyond 100% (1.272 / 1.618) projecting profit targets after the pullback.
Fibonacci RetracementRatio tool (0.382 / 0.5 / 0.618…) measuring how deep a pullback has gone.

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