Open
$23,555
Close
$23,492
Return
-0.27%
Net Flow
-986 BTC
Volume
283,706 BTC
Buy/Sell Ratio
0.99

Summary

On Monday, February 27, 2023, Bitcoin went nowhere to $23,492. Net flow: -986 BTC — sellers had the edge.

BTC price and volume for February 27, 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

The big players were active all day. 24 bars of outsized trades (5.3σ peak) from 03:35–18:33 UTC, adding 661 BTC of selling pressure on top of the broader selling flow.

This was day 7 of consecutive net selling. Multi-day streaks reflect sustained conviction, not noise.

A clean, flow-driven day. The 0.83 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 February 27, 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

Across sessions: Asia -0.56%, Europe +1.19%, US -0.90% — with Europe doing the heavy lifting.

Session Hours (UTC) Return Net Flow Flow Share
Asia 00:00 - 08:00 -0.56% -900 BTC 33%
Europe 08:00 - 14:00 1.19% 853 BTC 32%
US 14:00 - 00:00 -0.90% -939 BTC 35%
Buy vs sell volume for February 27, 2023

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

Regime Context

In retrospect, the bull regime was ending. CHOP conditions were 1 day(s) away.

Volume ran hot: 283,706 BTC traded, +2.7σ above the bull-regime average. High volume days tend to carry more signal.

Patterns: bull whale-activity regime-end volume-spike flow-streak

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