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Order-Flow Recap: 13 October 2026 — Reading the Tape on the Heavy Moves

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Per-Symbol Recap

  • BTCUSDT closed at 83,125.70, +1.60% on the day, on volume of 147,388. Cumulative volume delta peaked at 05:23 UTC and bottomed at 00:57 UTC.
  • ETHUSDT closed at 2,496.89, +2.09%, on volume of 3,768,786. The session's cvd extremes were 05:23 UTC and 00:08 UTC.
  • SOLUSDT finished at 106.78, +1.03%, on volume of 21,106,213, with cvd extremes at 14:17 UTC and 00:56 UTC.
  • BNBUSDT closed at 742.11, +1.22%, on volume of 377,910; cvd extremes at 00:02 UTC and 09:31 UTC.
  • ZECUSDT closed at 1,217.85, +4.40%, on volume of 1,475,590, with cvd extremes at 03:35 UTC and 00:52 UTC.
  • SNDKUSDT closed at 1,485.27, +1.90%, on volume of 1,383,794, cvd extremes at 20:06 UTC and 13:35 UTC.
  • SOXLUSDT closed at 127.81, +1.78%, on volume of 20,941,820, with cvd extremes at 00:01 UTC and 13:32 UTC.
  • SPCXUSDT closed at 157.16, −3.45%, on volume of 5,561,003; cvd extremes at 09:39 UTC and 14:22 UTC.
  • XAUUSDT closed at 4,161.23, −0.36%, on volume of 482,650, with cvd extremes at 17:41 UTC and 06:44 UTC.
  • XAUTUSDT closed at 4,155.22, −0.29%, on volume of 7,622; cvd extremes at 00:00 UTC and 14:03 UTC.
  • RLCUSDT closed at 0.8911, −4.12%, on volume of 56,734,406, with cvd extremes at 00:14 UTC and 23:57 UTC.

Large Moves and the Order Flow Around Them

The largest move of the day came in SPCXUSDT, which fell −3.56% over 60 minutes, from 162.68 at 13:27 UTC to 156.89 at 14:27 UTC — 3.56% of 356 bps, or about 7.81 times the average hourly range. Other markets moved the same way at the same time, with XAUTUSDT and XAUUSDT falling −0.61% and −0.63% respectively. In the minutes before the move, the tape recorded 8 marks at about 1.24 times the day's normal, dominated by Market Volume Imbalance on the buy side at 4 marks. During the move, the tape recorded 41 marks at about 1.57 times the day's normal, with Stop Runs on the sell side at 17 and Stop Runs on the buy side at 8.

The second large move was SNDKUSDT, which rose +4.49% over 45 minutes, from 1,403.01 at 13:30 UTC to 1,465.98 at 14:15 UTC — 4.49% of 449 bps, roughly 5.16 times the average hourly range. Other markets moved the same way at the same time, with SOXLUSDT rising +6.84%. Before the move, the tape recorded 6 marks at about 4.11 times the day's normal, led by Stop Runs on the buy side. During the move, the tape recorded 19 marks at about 4.25 times the day's normal, with Big Trades on the buy side at 8.

SOLUSDT fell −4.13% over 50 minutes, from 105.93 at 00:02 UTC to 101.56 at 00:52 UTC — 4.13% of 413 bps, about 4.88 times the average hourly range — a market-wide move that also took SNDKUSDT, BNBUSDT and ETHUSDT lower. In the minutes before the move, the tape recorded 233 marks at about 1.05 times the day's normal, dominated by Liquidity Changes on the sell side at 119. During the move, the tape recorded 778 marks at about 1.03 times the day's normal, with Liquidity Changes on the buy side at 375 and Liquidity Changes on the sell side at 370.

SOXLUSDT rose +7.30% over 58 minutes, from 118.01 at 15:35 UTC to 126.62 at 16:33 UTC — 7.30% of 730 bps, roughly 4.31 times the average hourly range — alongside a same-time move in SPCXUSDT and SNDKUSDT. Before the move, the tape recorded 4 marks at about 2.33 times the day's normal. During the move, the tape recorded 19 marks at about 2.81 times the day's normal, with Big Trades on the buy side at 7 and Stop Runs on the buy side at 6.

SNDKUSDT rose +3.59% over 57 minutes, from 1,447.85 at 19:04 UTC to 1,499.80 at 20:01 UTC — 3.59% of 359 bps, about 4.25 times the average hourly range. During the move, the tape recorded 16 marks at about 2.84 times the day's normal, with Big Trades on the buy side at 6 and Market Volume Imbalance on the buy side at 3.

Top Movers Among the Tracked Symbols

  • QUSDT +39.98% at 0.04210, turnover $193.3M
  • TRUTHUSDT +31.99% at 0.02004, turnover $71.4M
  • BATUSDT +27.86% at 0.1965, turnover $279.7M
  • 1000RATSUSDT −51.15% at 0.01663, turnover $53.2M
  • ARCUSDT −50.63% at 0.02959, turnover $110.5M
  • USUSDT −23.41% at 0.008501, turnover $81.5M
  • RSRUSDT −4.03% at 0.002072, turnover $153.7M
  • ARCUSDT −50.63% at 0.02959, turnover $110.5M
  • 1000RATSUSDT −51.15% at 0.01663, turnover $53.2M

Among the 745 tracked symbols.

Notable News

  • Two of the three sentiment sources came back with coverage-window placeholders for the token feeds, and the prediction-market odds for the covered day were withheld rather than back-filled (Yahoo Finance).
  • The global macro feed carried items from both the covered day and the day before, and the publisher declined to certify which were published exactly on the covered day (Global news feed).
  • The news feed returned nothing for the covered day, which the vendor described as a coverage limitation rather than evidence of a quiet news day (Yahoo Finance).
  • Retail sentiment inputs came back empty from the cashtag-indexed social source, leaving the institutional framing layer absent from the report (StockTwits).
  • The community search returned only a post about an AI-valuation assessment through several models, and it was not really about the asset in question (Reddit).

Not financial advice.

Order-Flow Recap: 13 October 2026 — Reading the Tape on the Heavy Moves — TapeHawk