Open
$49,152
Close
$49,396
Return
+0.50%
Net Flow
-739 BTC
Volume
45,581 BTC
Buy/Sell Ratio
0.97

Summary

Bitcoin ticked up +0.50% on Sunday, December 05, 2021, closing at $49,396 as sellers controlled aggregate flow with 739 BTC of net pressure.

BTC price and volume for December 05, 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

Large-player activity detected: 32 bars with trade sizes 3σ+ above normal (peak: 9.5σ) between 00:33–23:26 UTC. Whale flow netted 738 BTC of buying.

Flow reversed midday. The first 12 hours belonged to buyers (+628 BTC), but sellers erased that and then some (-1,367 BTC) in the back half.

Net selling for 7 straight days. Whether it's institutional positioning or sentiment-driven, the directional bias was persistent.

Cumulative flow vs return for December 05, 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

No single session dominated price action: Asia +0.28%, Europe +0.02%, US +0.20%.

Session Hours (UTC) Return Net Flow Flow Share
Asia 00:00 - 08:00 0.28% 716 BTC 33%
Europe 08:00 - 14:00 0.02% -402 BTC 19%
US 14:00 - 00:00 0.20% -1052 BTC 48%
Buy vs sell volume for December 05, 2021

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

Regime Context

Market conditions were bear — and this day didn't deviate. A +0.50% return against a regime average of -0.27%.

Patterns: bear whale-activity flow-reversal flow-streak

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