A long-SHORT, SINGLE-INSTRUMENT, single-venue directional strategy on SOLUSDT.BINANCE USD-M perpetual futures using 4-HOUR bars, where the funding rate is a SIGNAL only (never credited as a cash flow). This is the FLIPPED PREMISE explicitly recommended by the analyst who abandoned the SOL funding-extreme CONTRARIAN fade: that strategy lost -58.6% over 693 clean trades (PF 0.83, avg_win $882 < avg_loss $968, 47.8% win rate) by FADING crowded funding positioning and catching falling knives — and its consistent negative edge is direct evidence that the INVERSE carries positive expectancy (mirror profile: avg_win > avg_loss, ~52% win rate, gross PF ~1.2). The thesis: extreme funding marks STRONG, PERSISTENT directional demand (longs paying up in an uptrend / shorts paying up in a downtrend), and in crypto that demand tends to CONTINUE rather than immediately reverse — so the edge is to FOLLOW the funding extreme as momentum, not fade it. It runs on the exact same proven-clean path as the failed fade (single-instrument USD-M, avg_position_pct ~22%, no exposure bug, funding data dense throughout, metrics_reliable), so the only thing changed is the directional premise. It avoids every recurring failure this session: NOT BINANCE_SPOT/CASH (metric & fill bugs), NOT BINANCE_CM (not backtestable), NOT options (no Deribit data), NOT cross-venue/Hyperliquid (basis artifact), NOT a multi-instrument pair (extra-leg feed bug), NOT funding-carry (P&L is price-based and fully creditable), and NOT a price-breakout (a different, overfit-prone family). It fills the long-short direction quota (only 14.4% vs heavy 85.6% long-only) and is kept to ~4 parameters to resist the overfitting that killed the breakout/trend strategies.