Funding is a positioning tax
Perpetual futures use funding to keep contract prices anchored to spot. When one side is crowded, that side often pays. Aegium uses that as a market structure input rather than a simple long/short trigger.
Funding rates
Funding is most useful when it is ranked across the market
A positive or negative funding rate does not mean much in isolation. Aegium compares funding pressure across the liquid perps, then checks whether crowded positioning is being rewarded or punished by flow.
Built for traders who care about positioning, crowding and carry.
Carry can be edge, crowding can be risk
A high-funding long can still work when flow and momentum are strong. A negative-funding short can still be dangerous if the squeeze pressure is building. The dashboard makes those tradeoffs visible in the same cross-sectional view.
How it fits the book
One of Aegium's live books is built around funding carry. It is paper-traded in the open alongside the rest of the market-neutral book, so funding is judged by realized behavior, not by a neat theory chart.
Questions traders usually ask
Can I trade funding rates alone?
You can, but Aegium does not treat funding as enough. It is stronger when paired with flow, momentum, liquidity and observed book performance.
Does Aegium show the live funding carry book?
Yes. The public track record shows the live paper book at portfolio level, and paid views expose deeper book and symbol context.
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