NEAR Hyperliquid Funding-Against-Price Squeeze with OKX Confirmation

Hypothesis

Derived by the Research Lead from Kraken Learn's funding-positioning discussion: test whether persistent funding opposed to an already-established price move identifies trapped positioning and subsequent directional continuation. Source: https://www.kraken.com/learn/futures-trading-funding-rate-strategy. Trade NEARUSD.HYPERLIQUID long or short using synchronized 4-HOUR closes; NEARUSDT.OKX supplies price confirmation only and is never traded. This is a positioning-conditioned directional experiment, not funding arbitrage. Market entries execute at the signal bar's close, the registry's faithful equivalent to next-bar-open execution on continuous markets. Intrabar protective stops are matched by the platform. Baselines: funding_window_hours=24, return_lookback_bars=6, return_atr_threshold=1.0, stop_atr_multiple=2.5, max_hold_bars=18. Parameters remain frozen after deployment.