If by oracle price you mean the futures price BitMEX uses to compare to the index: it's generally relatively close to the futures price, and so in general if the premium is very positive the funding will be positive too.
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Yes exactly. From my understanding all funding is determined from ^^ time weighted relationship to last traded mex. is that wrong? Sure they’re generally close, and I believe if they are within a band it settles at +.01%. If they are out of band, it quadratically adjusts.
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Generally it's based on the difference between the oracle (which is roughly speaking the price of mex futures, with some adjustments) and the price of the mex index (which is the coinbase/kraken/bitstamp/gemini/itbit weighted average)
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So to jump back up here, what did you mean by enough people buying? I took it to mean enough people buying mex futures.
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Ah makes sense.
Yeah--if enough people buy MEX futures, then MEX futures premium vs index will go up and so funding rate will go positive. So maybe the fact that funding is negative is evidence that more people are selling than buying.
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I don’t think you can quite say that because it makes strong assumptions about mex index keeping the same demand profile! As mex inches up it should push higher.
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True, but: let's say that someone goes out and buys $500m of MEX futures. That should move the index up--but it should move MEX up more.
another way to think of that is: if it doesn't, who sold that $500m of MEX futures to the guy below the index price?
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Maybe. Maybe it’s a better bet for that guy to spend another $25 million (😜) pushing the Oracle up and build himself a nice negative funding tailwind.
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From what I’ve seen in practice, awry funding is pretty sticky.
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FWIW FTX funding doesn't have any of the stickiness
Yeah I already knew it. I think every single thing over there (including the liquidity) is better than mex.
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