BTC Open-Interest-Divergence Exhaustion Fade, Long-Short (Single-Instrument BTCUSDT.BINANCE Perp — NEW Information Source: Fade Strong Price Moves NOT Confirmed by Open-Interest Expansion, i.e. Short-Covering / Liquidation-Driven Moves That Lack New-Money Fuel, Revert-to-Mean, 3-Parameter)

A LONG-SHORT, single-instrument, EVENT/POSITIONING strategy on the BTCUSDT.BINANCE USD-M perpetual whose signal is a genuinely NEW INFORMATION SOURCE used in a NEW way — OPEN-INTEREST DIVERGENCE — answering the meta-learner's L38 mandate to add a new information source rather than another price-only or momentum-confluence variant (all exhausted/banned). The mechanism: a strong directional price move accompanied by FALLING or flat open interest is not driven by new committed capital — it is existing positions CLOSING (a short-covering rally or a long-liquidation dump). Such moves lack fuel and tend to exhaust and revert, whereas moves on RISING OI (new money) are sustainable. So the strategy FADES price extensions that OI does not confirm. It is explicitly distinct from every prior idea: NOT price-only (uses OI as primary signal); NOT the dead OI-CONFIRM-momentum (that traded WITH rising OI — the opposite condition); NOT a major→alt transfer or ratio (L40); NOT Hyperliquid (L39); and distinct from my pending liquidation-cascade reversal — that triggers on an ACUTE intraday liquidation-VOLUME spike (forced-flow event), whereas this reads a slower, multi-day POSITIONING-QUALITY divergence between price and the OI stock. OI data is well-collected on Binance (long history, no coverage ceiling — unlike taker-ratio). It stays on BTC (the one instrument with demonstrated tradability), simple perp execution (dev-safe), single-instrument (signal = execution), and is built for the analyst's gates: a moderate divergence threshold fires ~100-200 times over multi-year history (measurable), BTC exhaustion-reversions of ~1.5-3% clear the ~0.10% fee, and a tight stop vs revert-to-mean target keeps reward:risk favorable and drawdown bounded. It fills the under-target LONG-SHORT bucket (13.6% vs 86.4% long-only). 3 parameters.