crypto-funding-alert_skill

Overview

This skill is a real-time crypto funding rate scanner that detects negative funding rates on Binance futures and issues smart alerts for potential long positions. It prioritizes liquid markets and applies safety filters like leverage limits, stop-loss, and position sizing. The scanner stores historical results for analysis and requires no API keys for basic scanning.

How this skill works

The scanner polls public Binance funding-rate and market endpoints to compute funding rate signals across 40+ coins. It applies configurable filters (minimum absolute rate, 24h volume, trend checks) and a composite score combining funding rate, price momentum, and volume. Signals are classified as STRONG, MODERATE, or WATCH and written to a JSONL history file for review. Alerts can be piped to messaging tools or custom scripts for automation.

When to use it

• Spotting carry-like opportunities when funding rates are negative and stable
• Automating regular scans (e.g., every 4 hours) to capture funding windows
• Screening only liquid contracts with minimum 24h volume to reduce slippage
• Running before placing leveraged long positions to assess risk-adjusted potential
• Backtesting or tracking historical funding rate performance for strategy refinement

Best practices

• Keep leverage conservative (recommended 1–3x) to reduce liquidation risk
• Limit per-coin exposure (default ≤30% of capital) and cap simultaneous positions
• Use a minimum 24h volume filter (default $10M) to ensure market liquidity
• Set a stop-loss (default 10%) and respect it; do small live tests before scaling
• Combine alerts with your own technical checks—view scans as signals, not trade orders

Example use cases

• Cron job that scans every 4 hours and sends STRONG alerts to a Telegram channel
• Integrate scan output with a trading bot to open small long positions on high-score signals
• Save scan_history.jsonl for performance tracking and refine config thresholds over time
• Run ad-hoc scans with custom max-leverage, min-volume, or stop-loss flags for different risk profiles
• Pipe results to Discord webhook for team monitoring and manual trade review