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Alert: funding

Alert: spread

Funding you earn now, next payment 08:00 UTC0.0000%/8h= 0.0% APRnext payment +$0.00 per $10,000 · paid last 24h 0.000%

Price spread now: Bitget against Binance+0.171%7-day average +0.087% · you sell dearer than you buy

Net, funding: paid 7d − costs−$146as in the Funding arb table

Net, price: spread back to 7d avg − costs−$138as in the Price arb table

costs, in and out, $10k−$1471.465% of the position

Long on Binance Short on Bitget

What this pair did over the last

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Funding, last 7 days+0.001%$0 on $10k

Price spread, last 7 days−0.074%−$7 · spread now +0.171%, 7d avg +0.087%

Together, before fees−0.073%−$7 on $10k · with fees, hour by hour

Funding between these two exchanges is close to zero, so right now this pair is about the price spread alone: Bitget is 0.084% dearer against Binance than usual: you sell high and buy low, +$8 on $10k if it goes back to its 7-day average of +0.087%.

Leg	Exchange	Price	Funding /8h	Each payment	Next in	OI	Vol 24h	Max lev
Long	Binance MERLUSDT	0.02764	0.0100	pay 0.0050% / 4h	2h 41m	$1.9M	$1.8M	50x
Short	Bitget MERLUSDT	0.02769	0.0100	get 0.0050% / 4h	2h 41m	$1.6M	$239K	25x

Funding history

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Price spread between the two exchanges

Bitget against Binance. Falling: the short leg gains. Rising: it loses.

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Profit calculator

Position, each leg$Hold fordaysFee BinancebpFee BitgetbpOrdersPrice spread, now +0.171%Rate

Funding earned: $0
Price spread: +0.171% → +0.087%: $8.38
Slippage, 4 orders: −$124.5
Fee Binance: 5 bp × 2 orders: −$10
Fee Bitget: 6 bp × 2 orders: −$12
Net: −$138.12
Costs to cover: 1.465%
Break-even: never at this rate

Slippage from Binance: live order book, 8 min ago; Bitget: live order book, just now.

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, 8 min ago	5.39 bp	41.9 bp −$42	305.7 bp −$3,057	doesn't fit	doesn't fit
Sell Bitget live order book, just now	5.41 bp	32.5 bp −$32	227.2 bp −$2,272	doesn't fit	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	−0.0272%	1h	0.02748	−0.589%	$25K	$636K	50x	as long as short
Deribit MERL_USDC-PERPETUAL	0.0000%	1h	0.02766	+0.051%	$52K	$43K	10x	as long as short
Orderly PERP_MERL_USDC	+0.0099%	4h	0.02766	+0.062%	$14K	$2K	10x	as long as short
Hyperliquid MERL	+0.0100%	1h	0.02768	+0.116%	$433K	$138K	3x	as long as short
Aster MERLUSDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02764	−0.028%	$3K	$263	5x	as long as short
Binance MERLUSDTlong	+0.0100%	4h	0.02764	long leg	$1.9M	$1.8M	50x
Bybit MERLUSDT	+0.0100%	8h	0.02762	−0.083%	$1.2M	$385K	25x	as long as short
OKX MERL-USDT-SWAP	+0.0100%	4h	0.02763	−0.046%	$1.3M	$1.9M	20x	as long as short
Gate MERL_USDT	+0.0100%	8h	0.02766	+0.062%	$251K	$52K	25x	as long as short
MEXC MERL_USDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02767	+0.098%	$14.5M	$119K	100x	as long as short

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Exchange	Funding /8h	Every	Price	Price vs long leg	OI	Vol 24h	Max lev
KuCoin MERLUSDTM	+0.0100%	4h	0.02768	+0.134%	$887K	$39K	30x	as long as short
Bitget MERLUSDTshort	+0.0100%	4h	0.02769	+0.171%	$1.6M	$239K	25x
BingX MERL-USDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02765	+0.026%	—	$6.6M	—	as long as short
Variational Omni MERL	+0.0100%	8h	0.02769	+0.171%	$9K	$187	—	as long as short
SunX MERL-USDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02766	+0.062%	$2K	$919K	20x	as long as short
BloFin MERL-USDT	+0.0156%	4h	0.02767	+0.098%	$121K	$3K	50x	as long as short