Funding you earn now, next payment 00:00 UTC+0.0550%/8h= +60.2% APRnext payment +$2.75 per $10,000 · paid last 24h +0.086%
Price spread now: BingX against Binance−0.110%7-day average −0.062% · you buy dearer than you sell
Net, funding: paid 7d − costs−$88as in the Funding arb table
Net, price: spread back to 7d avg − costs−$125as in the Price arb table
costs, in and out, $10k−$1201.198% of the position
Funding, last 7 days+0.315%+$32 on $10k
+Price spread, last 7 days−0.034%−$3 · spread now −0.110%, 7d avg −0.062%
=Funding pays, the price is against you. BingX is 0.048% cheaper against Binance than usual: you would sell low and buy high (spread −0.110% now, against its 7-day average of −0.062%). If the spread goes back, that is −$5 on $10k: about 7 hours of funding at the current rate (+$16 a day). At the pace of the last 7 days (+0.315% in total) that is about 26 hours.
The current funding rate is far above what this pair has been paying: over the last 7 days it paid 0.315% in total (about 16.4% a year). A funding rate is set anew for every payment; at this rate the next one is about +$2.75 per $10,000. In the chart: green and red are payments made, yellow is the current rate, not paid yet.
| Leg | Exchange | Price | Funding /8h | Each payment | Next in | OI | Vol 24h | Max lev |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Long | Binance MERLUSDT | 0.02716 | 0.0100 | pay 0.0050% / 4h | 1h 22m | $1.8M | $2.1M | 50x |
| Short | BingX MERL-USDT | 0.02713 | 0.0650 | get 0.0325% / 4h | 1h 22m | — | $6.6M | — |
Binance MERLUSDT
BingX MERL-USDTFunding history
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Price spread between the two exchanges
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Profit calculator
- Funding earned
- $115.5
- Price spread: −0.110% → −0.062%
- −$4.81
- Slippage, 4 orders
- −$99.8
- Fee Binance: 5 bp × 2 orders
- −$10
- Fee BingX: 5 bp × 2 orders
- −$10
- Net
- −$9.1
- Costs to cover
- 1.198%
- Break-even
- 7.6 days
Slippage from Binance: live order book, 12 min ago; BingX: live order book, 5 min ago.
Cost to enter
taker fee + slippage from the mid, one side; closing costs about the same again| Leg | Half-spread | $10k | $100k | $1M | $5M |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buy Binance live order book, 12 min ago | 3.68 bp | 22.5 bp −$23 | 164.9 bp −$1,649 | doesn't fit | doesn't fit |
| Sell BingX live order book, 5 min ago | 7.38 bp | 35.3 bp −$35 | 91.1 bp −$911 | 714.3 bp −$71.4K | doesn't fit |
MERL on 16 venues
lowest funding first. Swap a leg: a good short leg pays more funding and is priced higher.| Exchange | Funding /8h | Every | Price | Price vs long leg | OI | Vol 24h | Max lev | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coinbase International MERL-PERP-INTX | −0.0128% | 1h | 0.02708 | −0.280% | $26K | $505K | 50x | as long as short |
| Orderly PERP_MERL_USDC | +0.0097% | 4h | 0.02714 | −0.074% | $13K | $2K | 10x | as long as short |
| Hyperliquid MERL | +0.0100% | 1h | 0.02719 | +0.092% | $436K | $134K | 3x | as long as short |
| Aster MERLUSDT | +0.0100% | 4h | 0.02715 | −0.053% | $3K | $427 | 5x | as long as short |
| Binance MERLUSDTlong | +0.0100% | 4h | 0.02716 | long leg | $1.8M | $2.1M | 50x | |
| OKX MERL-USDT-SWAP | +0.0100% | 4h | 0.02712 | −0.147% | $1.2M | $2.5M | 20x | as long as short |
| Gate MERL_USDT | +0.0100% | 8h | 0.02711 | −0.184% | $250K | $66K | 25x | as long as short |
| MEXC MERL_USDT | +0.0100% | 4h | 0.02715 | −0.037% | $14.3M | $112K | 100x | as long as short |
| KuCoin MERLUSDTM | +0.0100% | 4h | 0.02714 | −0.074% | $875K | $65K | 30x | as long as short |
| Bitget MERLUSDT | +0.0100% | 4h | 0.02720 | +0.147% | $1.6M | $289K | 25x | as long as short |
Coinbase International MERL-PERP-INTX
Orderly PERP_MERL_USDC
Hyperliquid MERL
Aster MERLUSDT
OKX MERL-USDT-SWAP
Gate MERL_USDT
MEXC MERL_USDT
KuCoin MERLUSDTM
Bitget MERLUSDTShow all 16 venues
| Exchange | Funding /8h | Every | Price | Price vs long leg | OI | Vol 24h | Max lev | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variational Omni MERL | +0.0100% | 8h | 0.02701 | −0.565% | $9K | $163 | — | as long as short |
| SunX MERL-USDT | +0.0100% | 4h | 0.02710 | −0.221% | $1K | $999K | 20x | as long as short |
| Deribit MERL_USDC-PERPETUAL | +0.0119% | 1h | 0.02714 | −0.055% | $47K | $63K | 10x | as long as short |
| BloFin MERL-USDT | +0.0158% | 4h | 0.02717 | +0.037% | $120K | $3K | 50x | as long as short |
| BingX MERL-USDTshort | +0.0650% | 4h | 0.02713 | −0.110% | — | $6.6M | — | |
| Bybit MERLUSDT | +0.0718% | 8h | 0.02704 | −0.442% | $1.2M | $470K | 25x | as long as short |
Variational Omni MERL
SunX MERL-USDT
Deribit MERL_USDC-PERPETUAL
BloFin MERL-USDT
Bybit MERLUSDT