# Derivatives **Route:** `/derivatives` **Meta title:** Derivatives **Meta description:** Derivatives intelligence across every venue: real-time funding rates, open interest, and liquidation clusters to read positioning and spot crowded trades. _Generated by `scripts/build-extracts.ts` from `getFeature('derivatives')`. Edit the content object, not this file._ --- ## Hero _Eyebrow:_ Market Research / Derivatives **Institutional derivatives intelligence across every venue** Monitor funding rates, open interest, and liquidation clusters in real time. Evaluate market positioning, detect crowded trades, and analyze regime shifts from a single workspace. - Primary CTA: Request a demo → `/demo` - Secondary CTA: See market research → `/market-research` --- ## Benefits ### Every perpetual, in detail Open any contract on any venue for its mark and index price, volume, open interest, funding and liquidations, then the history behind them. The full record behind a row in a perps table, on the surface you found the row on. - **Full contract detail**: Mark and index price, volume, open interest, and leverage - **Open interest history**: How the position on a market has built or unwound - **Funding rate history**: Every print on the contract’s own schedule, and what holding it has cost ### Cross-venue funding rate analytics Compare real-time perpetual funding rates across exchanges to evaluate carry trade opportunities and identify market positioning skews before unwinding occurs. - **Real-time funding rates**: Monitor live funding rates across all tracked exchanges and trading pairs - **Carry trade evaluation**: Identify yield dislocations and funding rate outliers across venues - **Cross-venue normalization**: Compare identical perpetual contracts across exchanges on a standardized basis ### Evaluate market positioning through open interest Compare open interest trends across venues and contracts to measure leverage concentration and determine whether capital is entering or exiting trades. - **Open interest trends**: Track real-time capital accumulation across perpetual and futures markets - **Cross-pair positioning**: Chart open interest alongside price action to evaluate conviction levels - **Leverage concentration**: Identify overcrowded trades before trend reversals occur ### Track forced liquidation flow in real time Monitor real-time liquidation events to identify where forced selling or buying is concentrated across global order books. - **Liquidation flow**: Track live forced liquidations across major venues as they execute - **Cluster identification**: Map stacked liquidation levels to locate potential price cascade zones - **Granular contract detail**: Drill down into individual perpetual and futures contracts for full market context ### Read implied volatility and skew Funding and open interest describe positioning in linear products. Options carry a forecast neither states: how far the market expects an asset to travel, and whether it is paying more for downside protection than for upside. - **Volatility term structure**: Compare implied volatility across expiries to identify whether near-dated contracts are pricing an imminent event - **Strike skew**: Evaluate how implied volatility varies by strike to determine what the market charges for protection versus participation - **Risk reversals**: Track the 25-delta risk reversal to quantify directional positioning bias in a single figure --- ## Stats **Institutional derivatives coverage** Funding rates, open interest, and liquidations normalized across every major venue, ensuring contracts are directly comparable regardless of exchange formatting. - **25,000+**: Derivative pairs - **180+**: Exchanges covered - **Real-time**: Funding and open interest updates --- ## Research tools **Universal market analysis tools** Apply Seerian’s core research capabilities to any individual market across the platform using standardized market data inputs. - **Cross-venue contract positioning**: Chart open interest, funding rates, and trading volume for identical perpetual contracts across venues on shared axes → `/market-research/compare` - **Annualized basis and macro correlation**: Measure correlation between perpetual funding rates, spot basis, and global macro indices like DXY and S&P 500 → `/correlation` - **Contract and venue mapping**: Map a perpetual or futures contract directly to its underlying spot pair, exchange operator, and supported margin collateral venues → `/relationships` - **Derivatives market indicators**: Read whether a move is leveraged or spot-driven, what the options market charges for protection, and where annualized carry is dislocated across venues → `/indicators` --- ## Showcase **Collaborative positioning analysis** Document research findings, annotate chart coordinates, and evaluate market positioning directly alongside real-time derivatives data. - **Discussion and annotation**: Notes anchored to the point on the chart they are about → `/team-collaboration` - **Watchlist integration**: Add high-priority perpetual or futures contracts to team watchlists with a single click → `/watchlists` - **Dashboards**: Pin a funding heatmap or an open interest chart onto a shared dashboard in a click → `/dashboards` - **Contextual news feed**: Stream protocol announcements, governance updates, and macro news impacting your monitored markets → `/news` - **Custom alert routing**: Route threshold notifications for funding spikes or open interest surges to Slack, Telegram, Teams, WhatsApp, or PagerDuty → `/alerts` - **Seera AI prompts**: Analyze funding rate skews, summarize open interest shifts, or draft research summaries without leaving your workflow → `/seera` --- ## FAQ Answered in [/faq.md](https://seerian.com/faq.md), the extract of [/faq](https://seerian.com/faq), which carries every question on the site. --- ## CTA - Request a demo → `/demo`