How To Find Coins for Short-term Trading 1. Price Changes Look at stuff that's moving the most. 2. Open Interest Changes Open interest broadly shows you the amount of positioning (and changes in net positioning) in a futures contract. Outlier OI increases can flag large amounts of speculation, potential front running of news events, participants piling in to trade a breakout/breakdown, positioning building up inside of a narrow range that will eventually resolve violently, and more. Outlier OI decreases can flag a large number of positions closing, be that voluntarily or via liquidations. 3. Liquidations Liquidations are generally inefficient - forcibly closing positions can lead to attractive dislocations and the market trading at prices where it would not trade otherwise. Forced sellers (long liquidations) and forced buyers (short liquidations) are usually sloppy and trade at bad prices, a bit like an old hooker not keeping up with inflation. 4. Funding Rate Anomalies Outlier funding rates can flag interesting market behaviour. Immediately raises the question: why hasn't the perp been pushed back in line with spot/vice versa? Perps aggressive/spot passive, spot aggressive/perps passive, 2023 squeeze shenanigans with max negative funding, and all that good stuff fall into this category. 5. Indicator-Based Alerts Extreme momentum-oriented readings (whatever version of overbought/oversold), trend-oriented stuff like MAs to highlight anomalies and/or extremities. There are other categories e.g. 'meta' (what's the popular coin to trade), volume (where is all the trading happening), CVD (who's slugging deltas and where) but this is a solid foundation to get you looking into interesting areas.