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Reading the flow
Practical guides to the heatmap, the footprint and order flow, plus product updates.
Order-flow recap: a return to an old level leads the tape
The day's clearest tape event was a return to a level where price had turned before, recorded across heatmap and footprint as the majors ground higher into the close.
- daily
- order-flow
- footprint-chart
- heatmap
- market-recap
- retest
Order flow recap: 17 October 2026 — heavy selling in the tape's biggest moves
A market-wide slide in the late hours: SNDKUSDT fell 6.54% while more markets moved the same way, and the tape's marks thickened with each leg. Plus the day's biggest movers among the 745 tracked symbols.
- daily
- order-flow
- footprint-chart
- heatmap
- market-recap
- liquidity
Order-flow recap: crypto majors slipped while gold and a tokenized equity ran
TapeHawk's footprint and heatmap marks for the covered window: a gold rally with liquidity changes on both sides, a bitcoin push on big trades and sweeps, and an ether slide led by sell-side volume spikes.
- daily
- order-flow
- footprint-chart
- heatmap
- liquidity
- market-recap
- crypto
Order-Flow Recap: 15 October 2026 — Crypto and Metals Tape
A macro-heavy session where crypto majors slid mid-day while gold and tokenized gold pushed higher, and heavy sell-side marks clustered around the sharp legs. Here is what the tape recorded.
- daily
- order-flow
- crypto
- macro
- recap
- footprint
Order-Flow Recap: A Gold Move and a Confluence in the Tape
Gold fell over a stretch of minutes while a heatmap reading showed liquidity changes, stop runs and volume spikes recording in the same move, and traders met heavy selling across the majors.
- daily
- order-flow
- footprint-chart
- heatmap
- crypto-recap
- market-structure
Order-Flow Recap: 13 October 2026 — Reading the Tape on the Heavy Moves
A 24 hours look at how the tape thickened around the day's largest moves — heatmap and footprint readings, absorption, sweeps, stop runs and big trades — plus the session's biggest gainers and losers among the 745 tracked symbols.
- daily
- order-flow
- crypto-recap
- footprint-chart
- heatmap
- large-moves
- market-structure
Order-Flow Recap: Heavy Sell Tapes Across the Majors
A red session across the tracked majors, with TapeHawk heatmap and footprint marks clustered on the sell side through the largest moves, plus the day's biggest gainers, losers and volume spikes.
- daily
- order-flow
- footprint-chart
- heatmap
- market-recap
- liquidity
- volume
Order-Flow Recap: Large Moves in SOLUSDT and Beyond
A market-wide push higher drew TapeHawk marks across several tracked markets, while RLCUSDT saw a sharp downward move.
- daily
- order-flow
- footprint-chart
- heatmap
- market-recap
- large-moves
TapeHawk Order-Flow Recap: 10 October 2026
A quiet tape on 10 October 2026: no move on any tracked market reached 2.50 times its average hourly range, and the heaviest marks were recorded on BNBUSDT and SOLUSDT.
- daily
- order-flow
- crypto
- market-recap
- liquidity
- volatility
Order-flow recap for 9 October 2026: BTCUSDT, ETHUSDT and BNBUSDT
A look at what the tape recorded across the tracked majors and the symbols that moved hardest over 24 hours.
- daily
- order-flow
- market-recap
- footprint-chart
- heatmap
- liquidity
- trading
Order-flow recap: 8 October 2026 — heavy tape, one tokenized stock slide, one RLCUSDT spike
The tape thickened with a market-wide down move, RLCUSDT spiked the other way, SOXLUSDT slid on leveraged-stock selling, and SPCXUSDT recorded buy-side marks against a softer close.
- daily
- order-flow
- crypto-recap
- footprint-chart
- heatmap
- market-structure
Order-Flow Recap: Heavy Selling Pressed the Largest Markets on 7 October 2026
Aggressive sell flow dominated the tape on 7 October 2026, with ETHUSDT, SOLUSDT and BNBUSDT all closing lower while XAUTUSDT and ETHUSDT drew the densest marks of the session.
- daily
- order-flow
- market-recap
- heatmap
- footprint
- aggressive-selling
- volatility