Today in Markets

What this page is

A single assembly of the numbers a trader tends to check at the start of a session, pulled from the same cached, licence-cleared data behind every tool on this site. Nothing here is a recommendation or a forecast: it is a status board. The releases come from the official BLS, BEA and Federal Reserve schedules, the curve from Federal Reserve data, sentiment from the published Fear & Greed index, and funding from our cached perpetual-futures snapshot.

Freshness differs by row, which matters more than it sounds. The release calendar and the macro backdrop are effectively fixed, they change on decision days and publication schedules. The curve updates once per business day, because the Federal Reserve publishes one value a day. Sentiment updates daily. Funding is the fastest-moving figure here, refreshed through the day, and it is also the most perishable: an extreme funding rate can normalise within hours. Each card carries its own timestamp so you are never guessing how old a number is.

How to read the funding extremes

Funding is the periodic payment between long and short holders of a perpetual future that keeps its price tethered to spot. Strongly positive funding means longs are paying shorts, the crowd is positioned long and paying for the privilege; strongly negative means the opposite. Annualised, the numbers look dramatic because a small hourly rate compounds across a year, so read them as a positioning gauge rather than a return you will actually earn. Extremes are worth noticing precisely because they tend not to persist.