Insider Selling

Insider Selling exposes a composite 0-10 pressure score per coin built from 72-hour funding rate magnitude, persistence, and consecutive negative funding days across 13 perpetual futures exchanges. High scores indicate sustained, market-wide short positioning that often precedes drawdowns.

The signal updates every 30 minutes and is gated to coins where the score is strictly greater than zero, so an empty list means no qualifying pressure right now.

GET/v1/insider-selling/data

Get insider selling data

Returns coins ranked by their composite insider selling pressure score, descending.

Query parameters

Name
limit
Type
integer
Description
Maximum number of coins to return. 1 to 500. Default 100.
Name
min_score
Type
number
Description
Filter to coins scoring at or above this threshold. 0 to 10. Default 0.

Response fields

Name
coins
Type
array
Description
Array of scored coins, sorted by score descending.
Name
coins[].coin_id
Type
string
Description
CoinGecko-style slug.
Name
coins[].symbol
Type
string
Description
Ticker symbol.
Name
coins[].name
Type
string
Description
Display name.
Name
coins[].score
Type
number
Description
Composite pressure score from 0 to 10. Higher means more sustained short positioning.
Name
coins[].avg_funding_72h
Type
number
Description
Average funding rate across exchanges over the trailing 72 hours, expressed as a decimal (e.g. -0.00012 is -0.012%).
Name
coins[].funding_magnitude
Type
number
Description
Sub-score reflecting the absolute size of negative funding.
Name
coins[].funding_persistence
Type
number
Description
Sub-score reflecting how consistently the funding stays negative.
Name
coins[].consecutive_negative_days
Type
integer
Description
Number of consecutive trading days with negative average funding.
Name
coins[].price_change_24h
Type
number
Description
Trailing 24h price change as a percentage.
Name
coins[].price_change_7d
Type
number
Description
Trailing 7d price change as a percentage.
Name
coins[].signal_start_date
Type
string
Description
ISO 8601 timestamp of when the negative funding streak began.
Name
coins[].updated_at
Type
string
Description
ISO 8601 timestamp of the most recent score recomputation.
Name
count
Type
integer
Description
Number of rows in coins.
Name
description
Type
string
Description
Plain-language summary of the signal for client display.
Name
signal
Type
object
Description
Methodology metadata: methodology, update_frequency, and the list of exchanges monitored.

Request

GET

/v1/insider-selling/data

curl -G https://www.sharpe.ai/api/v1/insider-selling/data \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_your_key_here" \
  -d limit=20 \
  -d min_score=4

Response

{
  "data": {
    "coins": [
      {
        "coin_id": "example-token",
        "symbol": "EXMP",
        "name": "Example Token",
        "score": 8.4,
        "avg_funding_72h": -0.00018,
        "funding_magnitude": 7.9,
        "funding_persistence": 8.8,
        "consecutive_negative_days": 12,
        "price_change_24h": -3.21,
        "price_change_7d": -11.4,
        "signal_start_date": "2026-04-14T00:00:00Z",
        "updated_at": "2026-04-26T07:00:00Z"
      }
    ],
    "count": 1,
    "description": "Insider selling pressure scores based on persistent negative funding rates across 13 perpetual futures exchanges.",
    "signal": {
      "methodology": "Composite score (0-10) based on funding rate magnitude and persistence. Higher scores indicate stronger evidence of systematic short positioning.",
      "update_frequency": "every 30 minutes",
      "exchanges": [
        "Binance", "Bybit", "OKX", "Gate.io", "Bitget", "Hyperliquid",
        "Deribit", "BitMEX", "HTX", "BingX", "CoinEx", "KuCoin", "MEXC"
      ]
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "request_id": "req_insider_abc123",
    "timestamp": "2026-04-26T07:00:05Z"
  }
}

How the score is built

The score is a weighted blend of two components, both normalized to a 0-10 scale:

Magnitude — how negative the trailing 72h average funding rate is across exchanges. A coin paying -0.05% every 8 hours scores higher than one at -0.005%.
Persistence — how many consecutive trading days the average funding has stayed negative. A 14-day streak scores higher than a 2-day blip.

Coins with score == 0 are filtered out of the response, so the coins array is always meaningfully populated when returned.

See the pump & dump signal