Open
$22,933
Close
$22,763
Return
-0.74%
Net Flow
-671 BTC
Volume
265,372 BTC
Buy/Sell Ratio
0.99

Summary

Bitcoin drifted lower (-0.74%) on Monday, February 06, 2023, closing at $22,763 as sellers controlled aggregate flow with 671 BTC of net pressure.

BTC price and volume for February 06, 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

Sustained large-player selling throughout the day. 16 bars with trade sizes 3σ+ above normal (peak: 4.3σ), spread across 02:24–23:00 UTC. The 476 BTC of whale flow reinforced the day's selling bias.

Flow reversed midday. The first 12 hours belonged to buyers (+55 BTC), but sellers erased that and then some (-726 BTC) in the back half.

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

Flow and price moved in lockstep (correlation: 0.90). Aggressor-side selling translated directly into price movement with minimal resistance.

Cumulative flow vs return for February 06, 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

US traders set the tone. 65% of directional flow — 436 BTC of selling — came from that single session.

No single session dominated price action: Asia -0.23%, Europe -0.23%, US -0.29%.

Session Hours (UTC) Return Net Flow Flow Share
Asia 00:00 - 08:00 -0.23% -7 BTC 1%
Europe 08:00 - 14:00 -0.23% -227 BTC 34%
US 14:00 - 00:00 -0.29% -436 BTC 65%
Buy vs sell volume for February 06, 2023

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

Regime Context

Unusually heavy volume at 265,372 BTC — +2.5σ above the bull-regime baseline. The market was paying attention.

Patterns: bull whale-activity flow-reversal us-dominated volume-spike flow-streak

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