Question 1

What is crypto insider selling pressure?

Accepted Answer

Insider selling pressure is structured distribution that shows up in derivatives data before it shows up in on-chain or spot order books. When insiders, hedge funds, or market makers hold locked tokens (cliff unlocks, vested team allocations, treasury positions), they hedge by opening perpetual short positions on major exchanges — which pushes funding rates persistently negative. Sharpe's 0-10 score captures that pattern across 13 perpetual exchanges for 1,000+ contracts.

Question 2

How is the 0-10 insider selling score calculated?

Accepted Answer

The score is a composite of Funding Magnitude (how deeply negative the 72-hour rolling funding rate is across monitored exchanges) and Funding Persistence (how many consecutive days funding has stayed negative). A 14-day warm-up eliminates cold-start bias. Scores of 7+ are strong signals, 5-7 are watch-list, and below 5 are noise. Full methodology, weighting, and historical hit rates are documented on /insider-selling/methodology.

Question 3

Is this a reliable short signal?

Accepted Answer

In a walk-forward backtest over 12 months across 394 coins, strong signals (score ≥ 7) hit 83.9% at 30 days with median −13.2% — a 7.7 percentage-point edge over a random coin from the same universe on the same entry dates. Past performance in backtests does not guarantee future results. Always combine with liquidity, risk management, and other signals; this is experimental signal data, not financial advice.

Question 4

How often is insider selling data updated?

Accepted Answer

Funding rate snapshots refresh every 30 minutes from direct exchange REST APIs across all 13 tracked venues. The composite score recalculates every hour with the latest 72-hour rolling window. The leaderboard view updates within 5 minutes of each refresh cycle.

Question 5

Which exchanges does Sharpe monitor for insider signals?

Accepted Answer

Binance, Bybit, OKX, Gate.io, Bitget, Hyperliquid, Deribit, BitMEX, HTX, BingX, CoinEx, KuCoin, and MEXC — the 13 largest perpetual futures venues by open interest. Each exchange's funding rate is fetched directly from its public REST API and normalized to annualized APR for cross-venue comparison.

Insider Selling Pressure Detector