Binance Perpetual Listings and Their Post-Launch Price Performance

Summary

This analysis asks whether Binance-listed perpetual contracts keep rising after launch or tend to reverse. It uses four-hour Binance perpetual price data from 2023, measuring each newly listed coin’s prices against its first available price and averaging the resulting paths. The author excludes coins already listed at the start of the sample and limits the plotted period to the first 150 days. A fixed four-hour interval also avoids treating the often erratic first moments of trading as representative observations.

The reported average declines after listing, with larger falls over longer holding periods. The article then divides prices by a broad market index; the relative performance still falls, and reportedly does so more sharply. It also observes that Binance listings were more frequent during rising market periods. These are descriptive results from one exchange and one year, not a tested short strategy: the analysis does not establish causation or report controls for listing selection, survivorship, fees, funding, or executable entry prices. The author cautions that historical patterns may not persist and argues against chasing newly listed contracts on the long side.

Key ideas

• The study tracks average four-hour price changes after Binance perpetual contract listings in 2023.
• The average price path declines after listing, and the reported decline grows over the observed horizon.
• Adjusting prices for a broad crypto index does not remove the downward pattern.
• Listing frequency appears higher during rising market conditions in the period examined.
• The results are descriptive and do not establish that a short strategy would remain profitable after costs or in other periods.

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