Open
$23,021
Close
$23,742
Return
+3.13%
Net Flow
+3,326 BTC
Volume
295,689 BTC
Buy/Sell Ratio
1.02

Summary

Bitcoin climbed +3.1% on Sunday, January 29, 2023, closing at $23,742 as buyers controlled aggregate flow with 3,326 BTC of net pressure.

BTC price and volume for January 29, 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

Large-player activity detected: 12 bars with trade sizes 3σ+ above normal (peak: 6.0σ) between 00:23–23:08 UTC. Whale flow netted 562 BTC of selling.

A clean, flow-driven day. The 0.96 correlation between cumulative flow and price means buying pressure was the dominant force — no hidden passive flow muddying the signal.

Cumulative flow vs return for January 29, 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

Session returns: Asia +0.79%, Europe +1.45%, US +0.87%. Europe led the move.

Session Hours (UTC) Return Net Flow Flow Share
Asia 00:00 - 08:00 0.79% 1418 BTC 43%
Europe 08:00 - 14:00 1.45% 1386 BTC 42%
US 14:00 - 00:00 0.87% 522 BTC 16%
Buy vs sell volume for January 29, 2023

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

Regime Context

With +3,326 BTC of net flow (+2.0σ), buying pressure ran above the bull-regime baseline of -386 BTC.

Volume ran hot: 295,689 BTC traded, +2.9σ above the bull-regime average. High volume days tend to carry more signal.

Patterns: bull whale-activity volume-spike

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