Futures traders are short Bitcoin — 3 reasons it won't stop the rally

Cointelegraph

Published Sep 15, 2020 08:45AM ET

Updated Sep 15, 2020 10:20AM ET

Since Sep. 5, many trades in the Bitcoin (BTC) futures market have been seemingly net short. As the majority of placed bets against BTC, the funding rate of BTC futures contracts turned negative.

But in the last 30 hours, the price of Bitcoin increased from $10,211 to as high as $10,878 on Coinbase. The large amounts of shorts in the market are fueling the recovery of BTC for three reasons.

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