funding-squeeze

funding-squeeze is a skill for Claude Code from Superior-Trade/superior-skills. It costs 77 tokens per session (2,435 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A trading strategy that goes long when perpetual-futures funding is strongly negative and the price is already rising. Funding is a recurring payment between traders that can show which side of the market is crowded.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design or test short-squeeze trades, with exits based on funding returning toward normal levels or a time limit.
Why use it?
It targets situations where heavily positioned short sellers may be forced to close as prices rise. It also highlights that negative funding alone can occur during a real downtrend and is not enough by itself.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the superior-skills plugin — 31 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to design or test short-squeeze trades, with exits based on funding returning toward normal levels or a time limit.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/superior-trade/superior-skills/funding-squeeze
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Superior-Trade/superior-skills --skill funding-squeeze
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Superior-Trade/superior-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install superior-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 31 skills.

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,435 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00077 $0.02435
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.01218
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00487
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00244

Measured 12d ago against content hash 85217295d14e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

funding-squeeze scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/funding-squeeze/SKILL.md · 182 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 182 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Strategy: Funding · Short-Squeeze Fuel

When to use

A user asks for "squeeze trade", "fade the shorts", "short squeeze fuel", "longs eat shorts", "negative funding rally", or any framing where they want to ride the squeeze by going long when the order book is short-heavy and the price is already turning up.

This is the inverse of pure carry: instead of waiting for funding to mean-revert (strategy-funding-rate-arbitrage), this strategy enters when shorts are getting squeezed harder (funding worsening AND price rising), expecting forced unwinds to fuel further upside.

Honest framing — when this works and when it doesn't

Squeeze setups are time-sensitive and regime-dependent:

  • Best regime: choppy or rotating markets where shorts get caught after a deeper pullback. Recent up-move + persistent negative funding = textbook fuel.
  • Worst regime: structural downtrends. Negative funding is normal in bear markets — shorts are right, not trapped. Without confirming up-move, this strategy gets stopped repeatedly.
  • The take-profit problem: squeezes are explosive and reverse fast. Holding past funding normalisation gives the gain back.

Use the time-stop and the funding-flip exit. Don't try to ride the trend after funding turns positive.

Backtest reference

Window BTC/USDC:USDC 1h, 2026-01-01 → 2026-05-01 (BTC −13% over the window)
Trades 8
Win rate 38% (3W / 5L)
Wallet PnL −0.75%
Sharpe −0.75
Max drawdown 0.75%
Avg holding 12h 30m
Backtest ID 01kr42gvqnyessxdrsf3qym7sa
Exit-reason mix 6 signal exits · 1 trailing-stop win · 1 stoploss

The strategy executed correctly — the negative PnL is a regime call, not a broken implementation. The window covers BTC's −13% slide; long-only squeezes in a structural downtrend get stopped repeatedly. The trailing-stop win shows the trade thesis works when a squeeze actually catches (the one trade that resolved up made +1.3%); the issue is that the entry filter fired on too many bear-market dead-cat bounces.

Read the full file on GitHub · 182 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 182 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 85217295d14e

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funding-squeeze is a skill published in the GitHub repository Superior-Trade/superior-skills (209 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 2,435 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.