Open
$39,398
Close
$38,421
Return
-2.48%
Net Flow
-1,567 BTC
Volume
39,677 BTC
Buy/Sell Ratio
0.92

Summary

Bitcoin fell 2.5% on Sunday, March 06, 2022, closing at $38,421 as sellers controlled aggregate flow with 1,567 BTC of net pressure.

BTC price and volume for March 06, 2022

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

The big players were active all day. 29 bars of outsized trades (5.9σ peak) from 01:00–23:27 UTC, adding 4 BTC of selling pressure on top of the broader selling flow.

Net selling for 5 straight days. Whether it's institutional positioning or sentiment-driven, the directional bias was persistent.

A clean, flow-driven day. The 0.87 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 March 06, 2022

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

Session returns: Asia -0.03%, Europe -1.29%, US -1.18%. Europe led the move.

Session Hours (UTC) Return Net Flow Flow Share
Asia 00:00 - 08:00 -0.03% -387 BTC 25%
Europe 08:00 - 14:00 -1.29% -583 BTC 37%
US 14:00 - 00:00 -1.18% -597 BTC 38%
Buy vs sell volume for March 06, 2022

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 bull-regime day. The -2.48% return was consistent with the period's average of +0.34%.

Patterns: bull whale-activity flow-streak

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