Open
$19,930
Close
$20,955
Return
+5.14%
Net Flow
+1,721 BTC
Volume
393,914 BTC
Buy/Sell Ratio
1.01

Summary

January 14, 2023: Bitcoin exploded +5.1% higher. The 1,721 BTC of net buying flow at $20,955 told a clear story — buyers were in charge.

BTC price and volume for January 14, 2023

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

A brief flash of large-player activity at 00:25 UTC — trade sizes spiked to 4.5σ above normal, net buying.

Cumulative flow vs return for January 14, 2023

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

Most of the action happened during Asia hours, which accounted for 81% of the day's net flow (2,099 BTC buying). The rest of the day was a footnote.

Breaking it down by session: Asia +4.85%, Europe +0.21%, US +0.07%. Asia stood out.

Session Hours (UTC) Return Net Flow Flow Share
Asia 00:00 - 08:00 4.85% 2099 BTC 81%
Europe 08:00 - 14:00 0.21% -431 BTC 17%
US 14:00 - 00:00 0.07% 53 BTC 2%
Buy vs sell volume for January 14, 2023

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

Regime Context

Day 2 of a fresh bull regime. The market had just flipped from chop, and the new character was still establishing itself.

Unusually heavy volume at 393,914 BTC — +4.1σ above the bull-regime baseline. The market was paying attention.

Patterns: bull asia-dominated regime-start volume-spike

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