Open
$23,151
Close
$23,954
Return
+3.47%
Net Flow
+1,177 BTC
Volume
208,917 BTC
Buy/Sell Ratio
1.01

Summary

Bitcoin rallied +3.5% on Wednesday, August 10, 2022, closing at $23,954 as buyers controlled aggregate flow with 1,177 BTC of net pressure.

BTC price and volume for August 10, 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

25 bars of outsized trades (peak 11.5σ) appeared between 00:36–21:19 UTC, with whale flow netting 517 BTC of selling.

Flow reversed midday. The first 12 hours belonged to sellers (-288 BTC), but buyers erased that and then some (+1,465 BTC) in the back half.

Flow and price moved in lockstep (correlation: 0.94). Aggressor-side buying translated directly into price movement with minimal resistance.

Cumulative flow vs return for August 10, 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

Europe traders set the tone. 71% of directional flow — 1,998 BTC of buying — came from that single session.

Session returns: Asia -0.81%, Europe +4.59%, US -0.26%. Europe led the move.

Session Hours (UTC) Return Net Flow Flow Share
Asia 00:00 - 08:00 -0.81% -514 BTC 18%
Europe 08:00 - 14:00 4.59% 1998 BTC 71%
US 14:00 - 00:00 -0.26% -307 BTC 11%
Buy vs sell volume for August 10, 2022

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

Regime Context

This was near the start of a bull regime (day 3), with the chop regime barely in the rearview mirror.

Patterns: bull whale-activity flow-reversal europe-dominated regime-start

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