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Alert: funding

Alert: spread

Funding you earn now, next payment 04:00 UTC0.0000%/8h= 0.0% APRnext payment +$0.00 per $10,000 · paid last 24h 0.000%

Price spread now: Bitget against KuCoin+0.109%7-day average +0.015% · you sell dearer than you buy

Net, funding: paid 7d − costs−$475as in the Funding arb table

Net, price: spread back to 7d avg − costs−$464as in the Price arb table

costs, in and out, $10k−$4744.738% of the position

Long on KuCoin Short on Bitget

What this pair did over the last

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Funding, last 7 days−0.010%−$1 on $10k

Price spread, last 4 days (all we have)−0.232%−$23 · spread now +0.109%, 7d avg +0.015%

Together, before fees−0.242%−$24 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 0.094% dearer against KuCoin than usual: you sell high and buy low, +$9 on $10k if it goes back to its 7-day average of +0.015%.

Leg	Exchange	Price	Funding /8h	Each payment	Next in	OI	Vol 24h	Max lev
Long	KuCoin MERLUSDTM	0.02755	0.0100	pay 0.0050% / 4h	25m 35s	$885K	$41K	30x
Short	Bitget MERLUSDT	0.02758	0.0100	get 0.0050% / 4h	25m 35s	$1.6M	$241K	25x

Funding history

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Price spread between the two exchanges

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

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Profit calculator

Position, each leg$Hold fordaysFee KuCoinbpFee BitgetbpOrdersPrice spread, now +0.109%Rate

Funding earned: $0
Price spread: +0.109% → +0.015%: $9.37
Slippage, 4 orders: −$449.81
Fee KuCoin: 6 bp × 2 orders: −$12
Fee Bitget: 6 bp × 2 orders: −$12
Net: −$464.44
Costs to cover: 4.738%
Break-even: never at this rate

Slippage from KuCoin: live order book, 14 min ago; Bitget: live order book, 1 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 KuCoin live order book, 14 min ago	12.76 bp	213.9 bp −$214	doesn't fit	doesn't fit	doesn't fit
Sell Bitget live order book, 1 min ago	3.63 bp	34.8 bp −$35	161.9 bp −$1,619	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	−0.0232%	1h	0.02732	−0.824%	$29K	$503K	50x	as long as short
Deribit MERL_USDC-PERPETUAL	0.0000%	1h	0.02754	−0.054%	$49K	$55K	10x	as long as short
BloFin MERL-USDT	+0.0049%	4h	0.02753	−0.073%	$120K	$3K	50x	as long as short
Orderly PERP_MERL_USDC	+0.0099%	4h	0.02752	−0.109%	$14K	$2K	10x	as long as short
Hyperliquid MERL	+0.0100%	1h	0.02755	−0.011%	$433K	$134K	3x	as long as short
Aster MERLUSDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02751	−0.147%	$3K	$497	5x	as long as short
Binance MERLUSDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02755	−0.007%	$1.8M	$2.0M	50x	as long as short
Bybit MERLUSDT	+0.0100%	8h	0.02747	−0.290%	$1.2M	$411K	25x	as long as short
OKX MERL-USDT-SWAP	+0.0100%	4h	0.02753	−0.073%	$1.2M	$2.3M	20x	as long as short
Gate MERL_USDT	+0.0100%	8h	0.02751	−0.145%	$252K	$60K	25x	as long as short

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Exchange	Funding /8h	Every	Price	Price vs long leg	OI	Vol 24h	Max lev
MEXC MERL_USDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02754	−0.036%	$14.4M	$119K	100x	as long as short
KuCoin MERLUSDTMlong	+0.0100%	4h	0.02755	long leg	$885K	$41K	30x
Bitget MERLUSDTshort	+0.0100%	4h	0.02758	+0.109%	$1.6M	$241K	25x
BingX MERL-USDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02752	−0.109%	—	$6.6M	—	as long as short
Variational Omni MERL	+0.0100%	8h	0.02747	−0.291%	$9K	$168	—	as long as short
SunX MERL-USDT	+0.0100%	4h	0.02753	−0.073%	$2K	$988K	20x	as long as short