- Tracking Crypto Derivatives
- Overview
- Comprehensive derivatives market analysis across centralized and decentralized exchanges. This skill aggregates funding rates, open interest, liquidations, and options data to provide actionable trading insights.
- Supported Markets
- :
- Perpetual Swaps
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- Binance, Bybit, OKX, Deribit, BitMEX
- Futures
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- Quarterly and monthly contracts
- Options
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- Deribit (primary), OKX, Bybit
- DEX Perpetuals
- dYdX, GMX, Drift Protocol Prerequisites Before using this skill, ensure you have: Python 3.8+ installed Network access to exchange APIs Optional: API keys for higher rate limits Understanding of derivatives concepts (funding, OI, basis) Instructions Step 1: Check Funding Rates Monitor funding rates across exchanges to identify sentiment and arbitrage opportunities.
Check BTC funding rates across all exchanges
python derivatives_tracker.py funding BTC
Check multiple assets
python derivatives_tracker.py funding BTC ETH SOL
Show historical average
python derivatives_tracker.py funding BTC --history 7d Interpret Results : Positive funding (>0.01%): Longs pay shorts, bullish sentiment Negative funding (<-0.01%): Shorts pay longs, bearish sentiment Extreme funding (>0.1%): Potential contrarian opportunity Step 2: Analyze Open Interest Track open interest to gauge market positioning and trend strength.
Get BTC open interest across exchanges
python derivatives_tracker.py oi BTC
Show OI changes over time
python derivatives_tracker.py oi BTC --changes
Compare OI vs price
- python derivatives_tracker.py oi BTC
- --divergence
- OI Interpretation
- :
- Rising OI + Rising Price
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- Strong bullish trend
- Rising OI + Falling Price
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- Strong bearish trend
- Falling OI + Rising Price
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- Short covering rally
- Falling OI + Falling Price
- Long liquidations Step 3: Monitor Liquidations Track liquidation levels and recent liquidation events.
Get liquidation heatmap
python derivatives_tracker.py liquidations BTC
Show recent large liquidations
python derivatives_tracker.py liquidations BTC --recent
Set minimum size filter
python derivatives_tracker.py liquidations BTC --min-size 100000 Liquidation Signals : Large liquidation clusters indicate support/resistance Cascading liquidations can accelerate price moves Long/short liquidation ratio indicates market direction Step 4: Analyze Options Market Research options flow and implied volatility.
Get options overview
python derivatives_tracker.py options BTC
Show put/call ratio
python derivatives_tracker.py options BTC --pcr
Find max pain for expiry
python derivatives_tracker.py options BTC --expiry 2025 -01-31
Track large options trades
- python derivatives_tracker.py options BTC
- --flow
- Options Insights
- :
- High IV rank
- (>80): Options expensive, consider selling
- Low IV rank
- (<20): Options cheap, consider buying
- Max pain
- Price where most options expire worthless Step 5: Calculate Basis Find basis trading and arbitrage opportunities.
Get spot-perp basis
python derivatives_tracker.py basis BTC
Get quarterly futures basis
python derivatives_tracker.py basis BTC --quarterly
Show all basis opportunities
- python derivatives_tracker.py basis
- --all
- Basis Trading
- :
- Positive basis
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- Futures > Spot (contango, normal)
- Negative basis
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- Futures < Spot (backwardation)
- Cash-and-carry
- Buy spot + sell futures when basis high Step 6: Full Dashboard Get comprehensive derivatives overview.
Full derivatives dashboard for BTC
python derivatives_tracker.py dashboard BTC
Multi-asset dashboard
python derivatives_tracker.py dashboard BTC ETH SOL
Export to JSON
- python derivatives_tracker.py dashboard BTC
- --output
- json
- See
- {baseDir}/references/implementation.md
- for detailed implementation guide.
- Output
- The skill provides structured reports including:
- Funding Rate Report
- BTC PERPETUAL FUNDING RATES
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- Exchange Current 24h Avg 7d Avg Next Payment
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- Binance +0.0150% +0.0120% +0.0080% 2h 15m
- Bybit +0.0180% +0.0140% +0.0100% 2h 15m
- OKX +0.0130% +0.0110% +0.0090% 2h 15m
- Deribit +0.0200% +0.0150% +0.0120% 2h 15m
- ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
- Weighted Avg: +0.0158% | Annualized: +17.29%
- Sentiment: Moderately Bullish
- Open Interest Report
- BTC OPEN INTEREST ANALYSIS
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- Exchange OI (USD) 24h Chg 7d Chg Share
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- Binance $8.2B +2.5% +8.1% 44.3%
- Bybit $4.5B +1.8% +5.2% 24.3%
- OKX $3.1B +3.2% +12.5% 16.8%
- BitMEX $1.5B -0.5% -2.1% 8.1%
- Deribit $1.2B +0.8% +3.4% 6.5%
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- Total OI: $18.5B (+2.3% 24h)
- Long/Short Ratio: 1.15 (53.5% long)
- Liquidation Heatmap
- BTC LIQUIDATION LEVELS
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- Current Price: $67,500
- LONG LIQUIDATIONS (below):
- $65,000 ████████████ $125M (HIGH DENSITY)
- $62,500 ███████ $85M
- $60,000 ████████████████████ $210M (CRITICAL)
- SHORT LIQUIDATIONS (above):
- $70,000 █████████ $95M
- $72,500 █████████████ $145M (HIGH DENSITY)
- $75,000 █████████████████ $180M
- ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
- 24h Liquidations: Longs $45.2M | Shorts $32.8M
- Error Handling
- See
- {baseDir}/references/errors.md
- for comprehensive error handling.
- Common issues:
- ERR_RATE_LIMIT
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- Reduce request frequency or add API key
- ERR_EXCHANGE_DOWN
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- Exchange API unavailable, try alternative
- ERR_SYMBOL_INVALID
- Check symbol format (BTC, ETH, not BTCUSDT) Examples See {baseDir}/references/examples.md for detailed examples. Quick examples:
Morning derivatives check
python derivatives_tracker.py dashboard BTC ETH SOL
Monitor funding for arbitrage
python derivatives_tracker.py funding BTC --alert-threshold 0.08
Pre-expiry options analysis
python derivatives_tracker.py options BTC --expiry friday
Find basis trading opportunities
- python derivatives_tracker.py basis
- --all
- --min-yield
- 5
- Resources
- Data Sources
- Coinglass
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- Aggregated derivatives data
- Exchange APIs
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- Binance, Bybit, OKX, Deribit
- The Graph
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- DEX perpetuals data
- Key Concepts
- Funding Rate
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- Payment between longs/shorts every 8h
- Open Interest
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- Total outstanding contracts
- Basis
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- Difference between futures and spot price
- Max Pain
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- Strike where most options expire worthless
- IV Rank
- Current IV percentile vs historical Risk Warning Derivatives are leveraged instruments with high risk of loss. Funding costs accumulate over time Liquidations can happen rapidly Options can expire worthless This tool provides analysis only, not financial advice