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Order-flow recap: a tape that thickened with the moves

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Per-symbol recap

SPCXUSDT opened at 148.89 and closed at 148.36, a change of −0.36%, trading between 144.92 and 150.55 on turnover of 6,665,907, with a volume ratio of 1.13 times its normal. The session's tape recorded 877 marks, the most frequent type being big trades on the sell side at 78, alongside absorptions at 41 on the buy side and 30 on the sell side.

BTCUSDT opened at 80,114.30 and closed at 80,115.90, a change of 0.00%, ranging between 79,321.80 and 80,819.40 on turnover of 130,912. Its tape recorded 2,236 marks, with book imbalance leaning to the buy side at 357 against 286 on the sell side.

ETHUSDT opened at 2,328.58 and closed at 2,323.45, a change of −0.22%, between 2,292.00 and 2,343.79 on turnover of 3,267,045. Its 1,532 marks were led by absorptions, 351 on the buy side and 402 on the sell side.

SOLUSDT opened at 101.33 and closed at 100.91, a change of −0.41%, ranging from 99.81 to 102.71 on turnover of 13,154,349. Liquidity changes dominated its 14,966 marks, 6,847 on the buy side and 7,750 on the sell side.

BNBUSDT opened at 738.96 and closed at 743.35, a change of +0.59%, between 732.70 and 748.07 on turnover of 454,784. Its tape recorded 8,904 marks, led by liquidity changes at 3,915 on the buy side and 3,968 on the sell side.

XAUUSDT opened at 4,005.28 and closed at 4,014.60, a change of +0.23%, between 3,986.13 and 4,038.20 on turnover of 377,044. Liquidity changes led its 11,690 marks, 5,646 on the buy side and 5,028 on the sell side.

XAUTUSDT opened at 3,998.71 and closed at 4,006.01, a change of +0.18%, ranging between 3,979.61 and 4,028.77, and its 5,538 marks were led by liquidity changes at 2,186 on the buy side and 2,254 on the sell side.

ZECUSDT opened at 1,213.11 and closed at 1,232.68, a change of +1.61%, between 1,177.22 and 1,268.06 on turnover of 1,427,655, its 180 marks led by big trades on the buy side at 37.

RLCUSDT opened at 0.5390 and closed at 0.5227, a change of −3.02%, ranging from 0.5153 to 0.5637 on turnover of 29,294,956. Volume spikes led its 3,812 marks, 715 on the buy side and 700 on the sell side.

SNDKUSDT opened at 1,251.88 and closed at 1,271.29, a change of +1.55%, between 1,224.00 and 1,289.76 on turnover of 1,806,283, with 509 marks led by volume spikes on the sell side at 98.

SOXLUSDT opened at 85.28 and closed at 92.92, a change of +8.96%, ranging from 81.57 to 93.29 on turnover of 29,709,080, its 531 marks led by volume spikes at 99 on the buy side and 105 on the sell side.

The readings: what the footprint and heatmap recorded

SPCXUSDT gained 3.37% over 60 minutes, from 145.07 at 14:03 UTC to 149.96 at 15:03 UTC, and the same market-wide move was seen at the same time in XAUTUSDT, XAUUSDT, SOXLUSDT and BNBUSDT; in the minutes before the move the tape recorded 38 marks at 4.16 times the day's normal, led by Sweeps on the sell side, and during the move it recorded 44 marks at 1.18 times the day's normal, the most frequent type being Big Trades on the buy side.

SPCXUSDT fell 2.88% over 56 minutes, from 149.22 at 12:34 UTC to 144.92 at 13:30 UTC, with BTCUSDT making the same market-wide move at the same time; in the minutes before the move the tape recorded 6 marks at 0.66 times the day's normal, and during the move it recorded 144 marks at 4.15 times the day's normal, the most frequent type being Big Trades on the sell side.

SNDKUSDT lost 3.85% over 51 minutes, from 1,281.49 at 13:42 UTC to 1,232.20 at 14:33 UTC; in the minutes before the move the tape recorded 135 marks at 25.46 times the day's normal, led by Volume Spikes on the sell side, and during the move it recorded 93 marks at 5.06 times the day's normal, the most frequent type being Volume Spikes on the sell side.

XAUTUSDT slipped 0.72% over 59 minutes, from 4,021.60 at 12:55 UTC to 3,992.62 at 13:54 UTC, with XAUUSDT making the same market-wide move at the same time; in the minutes before the move the tape recorded 19 marks at 0.33 times the day's normal, and during the move it recorded 299 marks at 1.30 times the day's normal, the most frequent type being Liquidity Changes on the buy side.

For BTCUSDT, price came back to 80,249.00 with 9 touches during the clip, a level where it had turned before with heavy volume traded there. Absorptions, Stop Volume and Liquidity Changes recorded marks in the same move, a confluence: the footprint chart drew Absorptions with 16 marks on the sell side, which records a large amount of size piled up while price stayed inside a narrow band before the band gave way; the heatmap chart drew Stop Volume with 16 marks on the buy side, which records a cluster of size forced through several price levels in runs, the shape stop orders leave, finished firing; and the heatmap chart drew Liquidity Changes with 12 marks on the buy side, which records one of the book's largest resting walls standing, then pulled without the tape explaining the drop. Relative Volume (RVOL) on the candle chart showed the volume of the bars at 9.80 times its recent average while the marks were recorded. The move itself carried 1.43% over 47 minutes, from 79,678.80 at 14:34 UTC to 80,819.40 at 15:21 UTC, with 104 marks recorded during it at 1.40 times the day's normal.

Top movers among the tracked symbols

Among the 747 tracked symbols, the gainers were QUSDT at +248.54% with turnover of $572.5M, AINUSDT at +86.08% with turnover of $89.5M, and BULLAUSDT at +66.24% with turnover of $257.7M.

  • BTWUSDT −26.68%, $283.0M
  • IRYSUSDT −24.44%, $166.3M
  • APRUSDT −19.22%, $161.5M
  • DOODUSDT +39.06%, $416.1M
  • IRYSUSDT −24.44%, $166.3M
  • EWZUSDT −8.67%, $80.9M

Notable news

  • Coverage at the asset-news vendor for the covered day began after the date itself, leaving no item for that day (Yahoo Finance).
  • The daily digest carried a window of stories without per-item timestamps, so their publication day inside that window could not be confirmed (Yahoo Finance).
  • A report described bitcoin steadying after a weekend selloff with the Fed call in focus (Investing.com).
  • The sentiment pull returned placeholder messages rather than posts across its sources for the covered window (StockTwits).

Not financial advice.

Order-flow recap: a tape that thickened with the moves — TapeHawk