Signals and edge
Price tells you what already happened. It does not tell you where pressure is building next. Super Perps tries to see underneath the price by combining eighteen market inputs into one read on the market.
Every four hours it does not just glance at the latest number. For each input it reads the last several hourly values, so it sees which way the metric is moving, not just where it sits right now. A funding rate that is high and falling means something very different from one that is high and still climbing.
The evidence it reads
The inputs fall into six kinds of evidence. Each one answers a different question about who is positioned where, and what might force them to move.
Positioning
Funding, open positions, and the gap between large traders and retail show where leveraged money leans.
Forced flow
Liquidation zones mark where crowded positions may be forced to close and speed up the next move.
Market pressure
Buy and sell flow, order-book depth, and liquidity shifts show whether demand or supply backs the move.
Whales vs retail
The agent looks for moments when large traders and the broader crowd disagree.
Cross-market
Several exchanges, timeframes, and options conditions confirm whether the setup is broad or isolated.
Combined, not alone
No single reading decides a trade. The agent acts when several independent signals point the same way.
Eighteen market inputs, grouped into six kinds of evidence.
Every input, and what it tells the agent
Here is the full set of eighteen inputs Super Perps reads each cycle, grouped by what they measure.
Price context
What already happened, and the level everything else is measured against.
| Input | What it tells Super Perps |
|---|---|
| Price (1h close) | The reference close for the hour, the anchor for every other reading. |
| 1h high | The intra-hour high, showing where price was pushed and where it was rejected. |
Positioning and leverage
How much leveraged money is in the market, and which side is paying to hold its position.
| Input | What it tells Super Perps |
|---|---|
| OI 1h close | Open interest at the hour's close: the total size of outstanding leveraged positions. |
| OI delta last hour | How much open interest was added or removed in the last hour. Rising means new leverage is entering; falling means positions are closing. |
| Funding (realized) | The funding rate actually paid in the last interval. Positive means longs are paying to stay long (a crowded long); negative means shorts are paying. |
| Indicative funding | The funding rate building for the next interval, so the agent sees the pressure before it is charged. |
Forced buying and selling
Where crowded positions would be liquidated, and where that has already happened.
| Input | What it tells Super Perps |
|---|---|
| Long-liq pool (cum.) | The cluster of long positions that would be force-closed if price falls: a pool of potential forced selling below the market. |
| Short-liq pool (cum.) | The cluster of short positions that would be force-closed if price rises: fuel for a squeeze above the market. |
| Long liq 1h (realized) | Long liquidations that actually fired in the last hour. A burst means longs were flushed out. |
| Short liq 1h (realized) | Short liquidations that actually fired in the last hour. A burst means a short squeeze just happened. |
Order flow and pressure
Whether real buying or selling is behind the move, and where the resting liquidity sits.
| Input | What it tells Super Perps |
|---|---|
| Buy volume 1h | Aggressive (taker) buying in the last hour. |
| Sell volume 1h | Aggressive (taker) selling in the last hour. |
| Bid/ask ratio (0-2%) | Resting bid versus ask liquidity within 2% of price. Above one means more support underneath; below one means more supply overhead. |
| Daily CVD | Cumulative volume delta for the day, buys minus sells. When it diverges from price, it exposes hidden buying or selling that the candles hide. |
Whales versus retail
Who is on each side, and the moments where the big players and the crowd disagree.
| Input | What it tells Super Perps |
|---|---|
| Whale-retail delta | The gap between whale flow and retail flow: the moments when large players and the crowd lean opposite ways. |
| Global retail L/S % | The share of retail accounts positioned long versus short, often a contrarian tell at extremes. |
| True retail L/S % | A cleaned retail long/short read that filters out non-retail noise for a truer picture of the crowd. |
| Top trader L/S % | How the largest, most successful accounts are positioned: the smart-money lean. |
Why the combination matters
No single reading gets a vote on its own. Funding can look stretched while order flow says the move still has support. A liquidation pool can sit right where top traders are leaning the other way. Any one input in isolation is noise as often as it is a signal.
Super Perps waits for agreement. It tests the bullish reading against the bearish reading and acts only when several independent inputs point the same way. When they do not line up, the honest answer is usually no trade, and the agent takes it.
That discipline is the edge. Not a secret indicator, but the willingness to combine many weak signals into one decision and to stay out when they disagree.
Read next
- Risk management: what happens once the agent commits to a trade.
- How Super Perps works: where these signals sit in the decision loop.