Open
$56,951
Close
$57,184
Return
+0.41%
Net Flow
-1,954 BTC
Volume
44,957 BTC
Buy/Sell Ratio
0.92

Summary

Bitcoin edged higher (+0.41%) on Wednesday, December 01, 2021, closing at $57,184 as sellers controlled aggregate flow with 1,954 BTC of net pressure.

BTC price and volume for December 01, 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

Sustained large-player selling throughout the day. 26 bars with trade sizes 3σ+ above normal (peak: 7.7σ), spread across 00:55–19:46 UTC. The 1,075 BTC of whale flow reinforced the day's selling bias.

Net selling for 3 straight days. Whether it's institutional positioning or sentiment-driven, the directional bias was persistent.

Cumulative flow vs return for December 01, 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. 81% of directional flow — 1,576 BTC of selling — came from that single session.

Session returns: Asia +0.37%, Europe +0.84%, US -0.80%. Europe led the move.

Session Hours (UTC) Return Net Flow Flow Share
Asia 00:00 - 08:00 0.37% -122 BTC 6%
Europe 08:00 - 14:00 0.84% -256 BTC 13%
US 14:00 - 00:00 -0.80% -1576 BTC 81%
Buy vs sell volume for December 01, 2021

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

Regime Context

Nothing unusual for a bear-regime day. The +0.41% return was consistent with the period's average of -0.27%.

Patterns: bear whale-activity us-dominated flow-streak

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