The crowd has piled onto one side
and is paying funding for it
The screener looks for pairs where a position skew meets expensive funding: open interest climbing, price stalling, and the crowded side paying to hold. It is a reversal setup, not a prediction.
Three situations the screener catches
Long squeeze
Longs outnumber shorts by 2× or more, funding is positive, open interest is climbing, price is flat → longs are paying for a position that is not moving.
Short squeeze
Shorts outnumber longs by 2× or more, funding is negative, open interest is climbing → fuel for a move up if price turns against the shorts.
Confidence floor
Setup score below your threshold — no signal. You only see cases where all four signs line up, not just one.
How it works
We read the positioning
Every 5 minutes we pull the long-to-short ratio for the most liquid pairs. Anything older than 15 minutes is not used — the screener stays quiet instead.
We combine four signs
Position skew, funding cost for the crowded side, hourly open-interest build, and whether price is stalling. Each contributes to a score from 0 to 100.
We send the numbers
The message carries the direction, the position ratio with its source exchange, funding, the setup score, and the nearest stop cluster.
Questions about liquidation cascades
- Is a score of 78 out of 100 the probability of a cascade?
- No. It is the weighted sum of four observable signs: position skew, funding cost, open-interest build, and a stalling price. There are no outcome statistics behind it, so calling it a probability would be wrong.
- Where does the long-to-short ratio come from?
- From public Binance data, and from Bybit for pairs Binance does not list. The source is always named in the message: positioning comes from one venue, while open interest, funding and price are read from your own exchanges.
- What does "nearest stops" mean?
- It is the 24-hour price extreme — the level where stops and liquidation orders usually cluster. It is not a cascade calculation: we have no liquidation heatmap, and deriving one from open interest without leverage data would be made up.
- How often do signals arrive?
- At most once every 4 hours per pair. That is the window in which the setup plays out; repeating the same case sooner is noise.
One tap from notification to chart
Each alert can include one-click links to TradingView, Coinglass, the coin's spot and futures pages on the exchange, and the coin's page on JustScreener — so you go from notification to chart in a single tap.
- TradingView The coin's chart in TradingView, ready for analysis.
- Coinglass Derivatives analytics — OI, funding, liquidations across all venues.
- Coin page · spot exchange Direct link to the coin's spot trading page on the exchange where the signal fired.
- Coin page · futures exchange Direct link to the coin's futures trading page on the exchange where the signal fired.
- Coin page · JustScreener Live page on JustScreener with price, OI, funding and 24h turnover side-by-side.