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Reading the flow
Practical guides to the heatmap, the footprint and order flow, plus product updates.
Crypto order-flow recap for 4 October 2026 — majors grind higher as liquidations churn in the background
Major tokens closed the 24 hours window in the green while the tape recorded heavy liquidation-change churn and recurring stop-run and absorption marks. A handful of low-price altcoins stretched far beyond their normal turnover.
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- order-flow
- crypto
- market-recap
- liquidations
- movers
Order-flow recap for 3 October 2026: one sharp lift on BNBUSDT, a broad-based up day
BNB, ETH, SOL, BTC and gold: what the tape recorded during a day when BNBUSDT ran hardest.
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- order-flow
- footprint-chart
- heatmap
- market-recap
- liquidity
Order-Flow Recap: XAUTUSDT Slides, BTCUSDT Grinds Lower as Metals Diverge
XAUTUSDT closed −0.98% while BTCUSDT slipped −0.41% and ETHUSDT dropped −1.40%, with the heaviest tape printing on the heatmap and footprint during the day's largest moves.
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- order-flow
- footprint-chart
- heatmap
- liquidity
- market-recap
Order-Flow Recap: 1 October 2026 — Gold's Fast Slide on the Heatmap and Footprint
One market-wide move dominated the tape: XAUTUSDT fell 0.80% in 56 minutes, and XAUUSDT moved with it. Plus top movers among 740 tracked symbols.
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- order-flow
- heatmap
- footprint
- market-recap
- liquidity
TapeHawk order-flow recap: a market-wide slide, a failed push higher, and gold on the move
Bitcoin swung both ways while altcoins and gold printed their own large moves, and the heatmap marked heavy selling and buying in the same sessions.
- daily
- order-flow
- crypto-recap
- heatmap
- footprint
- market-structure
Order-flow recap: heavy selling on BTCUSDT and SOLUSDT, gold bid
TapeHawk recorded liquidity pull, book lean and aggressive-volume marks in the same moves across SOLUSDT, BTCUSDT, BNBUSDT and ETHUSDT, while bid-side flow ran in XAUTUSDT.
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- order-flow
- footprint-chart
- heatmap
- liquidity
- market-recap
Order-Flow Recap: Gold and Bitcoin Slid as Crypto Taped Heavy
Gold, Bitcoin and the majors traded lower while order flow marked heavy tape on both sides of the book.
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- order-flow
- footprint-chart
- heatmap
- crypto-recap
- liquidity
- market-structure
Order-Flow Recap: Heaviest Marks, Largest Move, Top Movers
TapeHawk order-flow recap for 27 September 2026: the day's largest move and what the tape recorded before and during it, the heatmap and footprint indicators that drew the heaviest marks, and the top movers among the tracked symbols.
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- order-flow
- market-recap
- liquidity
- footprint
- movers
- crypto
Order Flow Recap: BNBUSDT, BTCUSDT, ETHUSDT, SOLUSDT and XAUTUSDT
A tape-level look at 26 September 2026: how the marks stacked up across the majors and precious metal tokens, plus the largest movers among the 527 tracked symbols.
- daily
- order-flow
- crypto-recap
- footprint-chart
- heatmap
- market-structure
- trading-tape
Order Flow Recap: 25 September 2026 — Solana's Two-Sided Tape
Solana rose 4.36% on heavy volume while Bitcoin slipped 0.37%; TapeHawk's heatmap, footprint and candle readings recorded who was trading.
- daily
- order-flow
- crypto-recap
- footprint-chart
- heatmap
- market-structure
BNBUSDT Grinds Higher and the Tape Marks a Heavy Sell-Side Day
BNB closed the session higher while BTC and XAUTUSDT lost ground; TapeHawk's heatmap recorded confluence clusters in three separate large moves.
- daily
- order-flow
- footprint-chart
- heatmap
- market-recap
- large-moves
Order-Flow Recap: 23 September 2026
A broad risk-off session across the tracked pairs, with the heaviest tape clustering around BNBUSDT, BTCUSDT, BTCUSDT and SOLUSDT, retold through TapeHawk's footprint and heatmap readings.
- daily
- order-flow
- footprint-chart
- heatmap
- crypto-recap
- market-structure
- notable-news