An interesting phenomenon in the market: some accounts openly short without taking positions, seemingly operating independently, but actually with a hidden layout. This type of operation usually goes like this—major accounts call for short positions in public channels, retail investors follow suit and short, while behind the scenes, hedging accounts quietly go long. It sounds complicated, but the principle is very simple.

Why are retail investors easily caught? Most people do not fully understand the funding fee mechanism. They see "big players" opening short positions and subconsciously follow, resulting in the funding fees draining day by day, and their accounts being slowly worn down without realizing it. This is the cleverness of advanced harvesting—without directly blowing up your positions, the funding fees can drag small retail investors to death.

Those with truly large assets would not hold positions like this. Why? Because they have calculated it—once the break-even point between holding costs and gains is lost, continuing to hold will only accelerate losses. Those who persist in doing so are either unaware of risk management or have a bigger purpose behind it. The manipulative tricks of the market players are often hidden behind these seemingly "transparent" operations. The market is like a game of information asymmetry; those who understand the rules are always harvesting those who do not.