ORCA (ORCA / USDT) — funding, open interest and structure
Late stage of the move, signs of exhaustion (+25.8% over 24h), price is stretched far (+38% from EMA200) — such stretches tend to snap back. The scenario is not mature: neither long nor short has an edge here.
Key numbers
- Price
- $2.51
- 24h change
- +25.76%
- 24h volume
- $166.38M
- 24h high
- $2.75
- 24h low
- $1.95
- Market cap
- $155.69M
- Sector
- Exchange
- Funding rate
- -0.11%
- Open interest
- $29.99M
- OI change, 24h
- +60.61%
- OI trend
- rising
- RSI (1h)
- 70
- ATR / price
- +1.65%
- Volume vs average
- 0.40x
What is happening
Funding is heavily skewed — one side is aggressively overpaying, the crowd is piled onto one side.
Why: Shorts overheated
- Status
- Waiting
- Stage
- Preparing
Facts
- Price above VWAP·5d (+11%)
- RSI 70
- MACD weakening
- OI rising (+2% over 4h)
- Funding −0.107%
- Volume ×0.4 vs the 20-candle average
What each number means
Funding rateshorts overheated
Funding −0.107%: shorts are over-levered — risk of a short squeeze up when they buy back. But the skew is cooling — the pressure is easing.
Open interestshorts building
OI is rising on a drop (+2.0% over 4h): shorts are being opened — the downside is backed. OI is accelerating.
RSIin range
RSI 70: neither overbought nor oversold — momentum is balanced.
EMA stackuptrend
Price is above EMA200 and the averages are stacked bullish (20>50>200) — a steady uptrend. Price is stretched far from EMA200 (+38%) — such stretches tend to snap back.
MACDupside momentum fading
The MACD histogram is above zero but weakening: upside momentum is running out, no reversal yet.
Volatility (ATR)volatility normal
Normal volatility (ATR 4.6%/h). Volatility is expanding — bigger moves, longer wicks.
Cumulative volume deltaflow flat
CVD is flat: neither buyer nor seller dominates the flow.
Recent movepump faded
No active pump: there was an impulse inside the window, but price has already given back −8% from the peak.
Volumevolume drying up
Volume is drying up (0.4× the 20-candle average): interest is fading — the move has no support.
Candlestick patternsbearish pattern
Pattern "bearishEngulfing" (1h) (80%): the figure favors sellers. Stronger if the next candle confirms it.
Volume profilein value area
Price is inside the value area — a fair range, buyers and sellers in balance.
Pivot levelsabove pivot
Price is above the daily pivot $2.4307 — an intraday buyer lean. Nearest resistance $2.9045 (+15.5%).
Support and resistancebetween levels
Nearest levels: support $1.8048 (−28.2%) (2 touches).
Levels and structure
- Range high / low
- $2.76 · $2.45
- Support
- $1.80 · $1.79 · $1.76
Range and holding cost17 days
Where ORCA sits in its recent range, how much it moves on an average day, and what holding a position has cost in funding.
- Window high
- $2.472026-10-05
- Window low
- $1.392026-09-20
- Price within the window
- 95.4%
- Average daily range
- 8.34%
- Up days
- 12 / 17
- Down days
- 5 / 17
- Best day
- +20.56%
- Worst day
- -6.22%
- Average funding
- -0.082%
- Time funding was positive
- 14.6%
- Open interest over the window
- +121.31%
| Date | Close | Change | Range | Funding rate | Open interest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $2.42 | +20.56% | 25.72% | -0.18% | $22.68M | |
| $2.01 | +11.06% | 17.47% | -0.092% | $15.61M | |
| $1.81 | +2.79% | 4.06% | no data | no data | |
| $1.76 | +3.14% | 5.83% | no data | no data | |
| $1.70 | +3.22% | 7.09% | no data | no data | |
| $1.65 | +2.94% | 6.07% | no data | no data | |
| $1.60 | -5.47% | 7.23% | +0.002% | $12.11M | |
| $1.70 | -6.22% | 9.68% | +0.000% | $13.25M | |
| $1.81 | +9.98% | 14.45% | -0.003% | $14.40M | |
| $1.64 | -1.64% | 3.61% | no data | no data | |
| $1.67 | +6.13% | 6.99% | no data | no data | |
| $1.58 | +2.73% | 6.27% | no data | no data | |
| $1.53 | +0.35% | 7.01% | no data | no data | |
| $1.53 | +1.07% | 4.15% | no data | no data |
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