Crypto Futures Basis Tracker (Annualized)🧩 What is Basis Arbitrage
Basis arbitrage is a market-neutral trading strategy that exploits the price difference between a cryptocurrency’s spot and its futures markets.
When futures trade above spot (called contango), traders can buy spot and short futures, locking in a potential yield.
When futures trade below spot (backwardation), the reverse applies — short spot and go long futures.
The yield earned (or cost paid) by holding this position until expiry is called the basis. Expressing it as an annualized percentage allows comparison across different contract maturities.
⚙️ How the Indicator Works
This tool calculates the annualized basis for up to 10 cryptocurrency futures against a chosen spot price.
You select one spot symbol (e.g., BITSTAMP:BTCUSD) and up to 10 futures symbols (e.g., DERIBIT:BTCUSD07X2025, DERIBIT:BTCUSD14X2025, etc.).
The script automatically computes the days-to-expiry (DTE) and the annualized basis for each future.
A table displays for each contract: symbol, expiry date, DTE, last price, and annualized basis (%) — making it easy to compare the forward curve across maturities.
⚠️ Risks and Limitations
While basis arbitrage is often considered low-risk, it’s not risk-free:
Funding and financing costs can erode returns, especially when borrowing or using leverage.
Exchange or counterparty risk — if one leg of the trade fails (e.g., exchange default, margin liquidation), the hedge breaks.
Execution and timing risk — the basis can tighten or invert before both legs are opened.
Liquidity differences — thin futures may have large bid-ask spreads or slippage.
Use this indicator for analysis and monitoring, not as an automated trading signal.
Disclaimer: Please remember that past performance may not be indicative of future results. Due to various factors, including changing market conditions, the strategy may no longer perform as well as in historical backtesting. This post and the script don't provide any financial advice.
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Keltner + RSI Bitcoin Futures Trading [luca_badoer]This indicator combines the power of the Keltner channel with the power of the Relative Strength Indicator (RSI). It can help understand when the market is entering a bullish or a bearish trend.
Normally a Keltner channel would reference an Exponential Moving Average (EMA) of the price. In this case the Keltner Channel in the "Keltner + RSI Bitcoin Futures Trading " references the EMA of the 14-day RSI (white line). On top of that it overlays a 7-day RSI line (blue line). This produces some signals that are particularly useful in 2h, 4h and 1 day charts. The signals consist in the 7-day RSI line (blue line) crossing the upper (green) or lower (red) Keltner channels as well as the middle (white) line. Depending on the direction of the crossing (up or down) and the RSI level (from 0 to 100) at which the crossing takes place this produces bullish or bearish signals.
Examples:
- Bullish crossing: 7-day RSI (blue) crosses both the lower (red) and middle (white) lines upwards at a low to neutral RSI level (<70%)
- Bearish crossing: 7-day RSI (blue) cross both the upper (green) and middle (white) lines downwards at a high to neutral RSI (>30%)
Recommendations:
- Better to use it in 2h, 4h, and 1-day charts, thought it can also be used in lower timeframes. Confirmations of crossings in higher time-frames provide more certainty about the direction of the move.
- Use in combination with Heikin Ashi candles and volume indicators.
[SCL] BTC Futures Daily Bias (CME BTC1!)Derives a bias for BTC/USD on the daily timeframe and displays it on the chart in a configurable way. Takes price data from the CME BTC futures chart (exchange is configurable), regardless of what symbol you run it on.
Why? Because futures are said to give cleaner charts, but most traders are not trading CME futures. So you can use this indicator on whichever exchange you want to chart Bitcoin on.
Uses the 80D HMA and the 8D and 21D EMAs by default; all intervals are configurable.
