Open
$27,590
Close
$27,390
Return
-0.72%
Net Flow
-1,074 BTC
Volume
22,777 BTC
Buy/Sell Ratio
0.91

Summary

On Tuesday, October 10, 2023, Bitcoin slipped 0.72% to $27,390. Net flow: -1,074 BTC — sellers had the edge.

BTC price and volume for October 10, 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. 20 bars of outsized trades (9.0σ peak) from 01:58–21:38 UTC, adding 107 BTC of selling pressure on top of the broader selling flow.

Net selling for 4 straight days. Whether it's institutional positioning or sentiment-driven, the directional bias was persistent.

A clean, flow-driven day. The 0.89 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 October 10, 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 +0.22%, Europe -0.93%, US -0.02% — with Europe doing the heavy lifting.

Session Hours (UTC) Return Net Flow Flow Share
Asia 00:00 - 08:00 0.22% -228 BTC 21%
Europe 08:00 - 14:00 -0.93% -378 BTC 35%
US 14:00 - 00:00 -0.02% -469 BTC 44%
Buy vs sell volume for October 10, 2023

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

Regime Context

Nothing unusual for a chop-regime day. The -0.72% return was consistent with the period's average of +0.10%.

Patterns: chop whale-activity flow-streak

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