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Featured · Funding

Analyze funding rates in Python with the Optiom API.

Pull a year of funding history, annualize it and find the intervals where the crowd paid the most. Runnable code included.

10 min read·by Optiom Research
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TutorialOrder Flow

Map liquidation cascades from raw events in Python.

Aggregate long/short liquidation notional per hour and isolate the single events that moved price.

8 min · Optiom Research
TutorialData

Download OHLCV candles to CSV for backtests and notebooks.

Get the latest N bars for any pair and timeframe, merged with volume, ready for pandas.

5 min · Optiom Research
TutorialOrder Flow

How to read a footprint chart (and stop guessing who is in control).

Bid/ask volume inside every candle: imbalances, delta, absorption — the chart behind the Order Flow terminal.

9 min · Optiom Research
TutorialLiquidity

Use the depth heatmap to place your levels where liquidity actually sits.

Walls, pulled liquidity, and the levels the market keeps respecting.

7 min · Optiom Research
TutorialOrder Flow

The Liquidations screen, explained: from raw prints to tradable levels.

Event feed, heatmap, and how forced flow marks the levels the market comes back to.

6 min · Optiom Research
TutorialQuant

Backtest a contrarian funding strategy in 40 lines of pandas.

Short crowded longs, long capitulation, collect the carry. Full code, honest caveats.

12 min · Optiom Research
TutorialDerivatives

Detect leverage build-ups and squeezes with open interest + funding.

OI rising with positive funding = crowded longs. OI dumping = the flush. Code included.

10 min · Optiom Research
TutorialAutomation

Server-side price alerts to Telegram in 5 minutes.

Create alerts through the API and get pinged by a bot — no tab open, no script running.

6 min · Optiom Research
TutorialMicrostructure

Filter whale prints from the raw trade tape in Python.

Every aggressive trade above $1M, who hit whom, and the net pressure over the session.

8 min · Optiom Research

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