When traders crowd into longs on a perpetual, longs pay shorts a funding fee every few hours. Funding Harvester takes the paid side without a view on the price: it buys BTC on spot and opens a 1x short of the same value on the BTCUSDT perpetual. If BTC falls 10%, the short gains about what the spot leg loses; if it rises, the reverse. What remains is the funding, for as long as the rate stays high enough to be worth it.
What it costs
This strategy is open on every plan. What it trades is fixed by its design, so every plan runs the same scope; Standard is free.
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How it works
Every round the strategy reads the funding rate of the perpetual you pick. When it reaches your entry level, 0.03% per funding interval by default, it buys the asset on spot for the value of one leg and opens a 1x short of the same value on the USDT-margined perpetual. Both legs are held while funding is paid. Once the rate falls to your exit level, 0 by default, it sells the spot leg at the bid and buys the short back just above the mark price. The legs are traded one after the other, so for a short while one leg can be filled and the other not.
Key Features
Strategy profile
A snapshot of how this strategy behaves and who it suits, not a forecast of returns.
These are our assessments of strategy character, not user-specific performance figures.
Funding is not guaranteed. The rate changes every interval and can turn negative, when shorts pay longs instead. Opening and closing both legs costs trading fees on spot and on the perpetual, so a short stretch of high funding can end with less than the fees. The legs are placed one after the other, so for a moment one can be filled without the other while the price moves. A sharp rise pushes the short toward liquidation even while the spot leg gains, so keep enough USDT on the perpetual account.
All figures on this page are simulated or historical backtest results, shown for information and education only. They are not real customer results, they do not include your specific fees and slippage, and past performance does not guarantee future returns. Your capital is at risk.
Frequently Asked Questions
Quick glossary
Definitions for the trading terms used on this page.
- Backtest
- A simulation of how a strategy would have performed on historical price data. Past results never guarantee future returns - markets change.
- Slippage
- The difference between the price you expect and the price you actually get when an order fills. Worse on illiquid pairs and during fast markets.
- Spread
- The gap between the best buy price (bid) and the best sell price (ask). Tight spreads = liquid market, wider spreads = more cost per round trip.
- Stop-loss
- An automatic exit order that closes a losing position when price hits a chosen threshold. Caps how much one bad trade can hurt you.
- Take-profit
- An automatic exit order that closes a winning position once price reaches a chosen target. Locks in gains without relying on you to watch the chart.
- Volatility
- How sharply price moves. High volatility = bigger swings in both directions, which means more opportunity but also more drawdown risk.
Want the funding without the price bet?
Every new Futures Funding Harvester starts in paper trading: its orders are kept on paper and listed on the strategy page, and a paper run stops by itself after an hour.
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