NICKEL — price and volatility
Nickel
NICKEL: price 16,245.5, 24h change +0.74%. Commodity market quotes. Updated in real time.
What this is
MetalNickel — a metal for stainless steel and electric-vehicle batteries. In 2022 trading in it on the London exchange was halted and trades were cancelled — an extremely rare event in that exchange's history.
Chart
Chart built from data of MEXC
What the data shows
NICKEL trades at 16,245.5. Over 221 days it ranged between 15,063 and 19,990; the price now sits in the lower third of that range — 25% of the way from the yearly low to the high.
All-time high is 19,990 (May 2026); the price is 19% below it now.
Open positions in NICKEL are worth $411K. Over the past hour open interest rose by 17.40%. That is at percentile 6 over three weeks: noticeably fewer positions than usual.
Volume over the last five minutes is 2.8x the usual for this instrument.
Over the day +0.74%, over the hour -0.22%, over the last five minutes -0.05% — the move has only just started.
24-hour turnover is $2.1M — percentile 74 for the year: a normal level of activity for it.
This is a commodity instrument. It reacts to inventories, weather and decisions of producing countries, not to crypto news.
The daily range is 2.2% and five-minute NATR is 0.11%. That range is at percentile 70 for the year — an ordinary day for it.
NICKEL correlation with Bitcoin over 24 hours is 0.25 — it goes its own way, barely looking at Bitcoin.
Funding is -0.0146%: shorts pay longs, so positioning leans to sellers.
Traded on 3 venues: MEXC, BingX, Gate — the price is cross-checked across several sources.
By turnover it ranks 831 of 2161 instruments in the screener.
By daily range it ranks 2000 of 2161.
NATR is 0.05% on the minute and 0.46% on the hour — the move is even, without sharp excursions inside the hour.
Built from current numbers and the coin's own year of history. Updates with the data.
Our observations
Kairo- PositionsOpen interest rose +17.40% in an hour — new money entering NICKEL.
Computed from our own minute history for this coin over a year. Percentile is the share of days the value was below today's. Description only, no forecasts.
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How to read this
- Funding is a payment between longs and shorts. A positive rate means longs pay shorts: the market is crowded long.
- The rate rank shows how unusual that rate is for this particular coin: 97 means above 97% of the last month, a rare skew. Without the rank the bare number says nothing — every coin has its own normal.
- Open interest is the money sitting in positions that are still open. Rising alongside price means new money entering; rising while price falls means shorts building up.
- The OI rank is measured in contracts rather than dollars: otherwise it would drift up with price alone and claim a record where nothing changed.
- NATR shows how much a coin moves relative to its own price. High NATR with high turnover is where today's action is.
How much money sits in open positions on each venue. The total spans every exchange listing the contract.