Open
$63,575
Close
$62,960
Return
-0.97%
Net Flow
-2,476 BTC
Volume
82,616 BTC
Buy/Sell Ratio
0.94

Summary

Bitcoin slipped 0.97% on Wednesday, April 14, 2021, closing at $62,960 as sellers controlled aggregate flow with 2,476 BTC of net pressure.

BTC price and volume for April 14, 2021

BTC price (blue) and trading volume (cyan bars) per minute. Session shading: Asia (gold 00-08 UTC), Europe (green 08-14), US (red 14-00).

Flow Analysis

27 bars of outsized trades (peak 9.1σ) appeared between 00:10–23:07 UTC, with whale flow netting 1 BTC of buying.

Flow reversed midday. The first 12 hours belonged to buyers (+142 BTC), but sellers erased that and then some (-2,618 BTC) in the back half.

A clean, flow-driven day. The 0.85 correlation between cumulative flow and price means selling pressure was the dominant force — no hidden passive flow muddying the signal.

Cumulative flow vs return for April 14, 2021

Cumulative buying pressure (purple, left axis) vs cumulative price return (yellow, right axis). When these diverge, flow and price are telling different stories.

Session Breakdown

US traders set the tone. 61% of directional flow — 2,305 BTC of selling — came from that single session.

Session returns: Asia +1.12%, Europe -0.80%, US -1.28%. US led the move.

Session Hours (UTC) Return Net Flow Flow Share
Asia 00:00 - 08:00 1.12% 646 BTC 17%
Europe 08:00 - 14:00 -0.80% -817 BTC 22%
US 14:00 - 00:00 -1.28% -2305 BTC 61%
Buy vs sell volume for April 14, 2021

Per-minute volume split by aggressor side. Green = actively bought at the asking price. Red = actively sold at the bid price.

Regime Context

The bull regime was running out of road — 3 day(s) before the market shifted to chop. The transition was already underway in hindsight.

Patterns: bull whale-activity flow-reversal us-dominated regime-end

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