WAL (WAL / USDT) — funding, open interest and structure
Failed breakout up (+35.5% over 24h), price is stretched far (+41% from EMA200) — such stretches tend to snap back. The trend favors the bulls, but entering into a stretch is risky — better on a pullback.
Key numbers
- Price
- $0.0517
- 24h change
- +35.52%
- 24h volume
- $236.57M
- 24h high
- $0.0550
- 24h low
- $0.0375
- Market cap
- $138.72M
- Sector
- AI
- Funding rate
- -0.68%
- Open interest
- $10.47M
- OI change, 24h
- +180.83%
- OI trend
- rising
- RSI (1h)
- 76
- ATR / price
- +1.77%
- Volume vs average
- 0.94x
What is happening
Funding is heavily skewed — one side is aggressively overpaying, the crowd is piled onto one side.
Why: A wide gap above the mean, RSI is overheated, shorts overheated
- Status
- Active
- Stage
- Maturing
Facts
- Price above VWAP·5d (+16%)
- RSI 76
- MACD rising
- OI rising (+14% over 4h)
- Funding −0.685%
- Volume ×0.9 vs the 20-candle average
What each number means
Funding rateshorts overheated
Funding −0.685%: shorts are over-levered — risk of a short squeeze up when they buy back. The skew is accelerating — cascade risk is rising.
Open interestshorts building
OI is rising on a drop (+14.4% over 4h): shorts are being opened — the downside is backed. OI is accelerating.
RSIoverbought
RSI 76: overbought. It can hold at a trend peak, but the room above is thinning.
EMA stackuptrend
Price is above EMA200 and the averages are stacked bullish (20>50>200) — a steady uptrend. Price is stretched far from EMA200 (+41%) — such stretches tend to snap back.
MACDmomentum building
The MACD histogram is rising — upside momentum is building.
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 moveno pump
No active pump — the coin is in its normal regime.
Volumevolume normal
Volume is normal (0.9× the 20-candle average).
Candlestick patternsbearish pattern
Pattern "threeBlackCrows" (15m) (85%): 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 $0.04853 — an intraday buyer lean. Nearest resistance $0.05975 (+15.5%).
Support and resistancebetween levels
Nearest levels: support $0.03913 (−24.4%) (2 touches).
Levels and structure
- Range high / low
- $0.0555 · $0.0463
- Support
- $0.0391 · $0.0388 · $0.0376
Range and holding cost17 days
Where WAL sits in its recent range, how much it moves on an average day, and what holding a position has cost in funding.
- Window high
- $0.04332026-10-10
- Window low
- $0.03242026-09-29
- Price within the window
- 55.5%
- Average daily range
- 9.2%
- Up days
- 11 / 17
- Down days
- 6 / 17
- Best day
- +9.76%
- Worst day
- -11.33%
- Average funding
- -0.17%
- Time funding was positive
- 11.1%
- Open interest over the window
- +190.82%
Funding and open interest history started on 24 August 2026, so this part of the window is still short — it deepens on its own.
| Date | Close | Change | Range | Funding rate | Open interest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0.0385 | +9.76% | 14.81% | no data | no data | |
| $0.0350 | -8.06% | 10.18% | -0.064% | $3.15M | |
| $0.0381 | +5.95% | 8.53% | -0.17% | $3.33M | |
| $0.0360 | +3.54% | 25.45% | -0.021% | $2.89M | |
| $0.0347 | +5.69% | 7.73% | no data | no data | |
| $0.0329 | -11.33% | 13% | no data | no data | |
| $0.0371 | -0.27% | 8.56% | no data | no data | |
| $0.0372 | +0.87% | 6.19% | no data | no data | |
| $0.0369 | +1.94% | 4.34% | no data | no data | |
| $0.0362 | +3.26% | 6.06% | no data | no data | |
| $0.0350 | +2.82% | 4.08% | no data | no data | |
| $0.0340 | +0.47% | 8.97% | no data | no data | |
| $0.0339 | -0.29% | 6% | no data | no data | |
| $0.0340 | +1.98% | 6% | no data | no data |
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