Open
$65,354
Close
$61,498
Return
-5.90%
Net Flow
-2,416 BTC
Volume
38,820 BTC
Buy/Sell Ratio
0.88

Summary

Bitcoin crashed -5.9% on Friday, August 02, 2024, closing at $61,498 as sellers controlled aggregate flow with 2,416 BTC of net pressure.

BTC price and volume for August 02, 2024

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: 20 bars with trade sizes 3σ+ above normal (peak: 10.9σ) between 00:51–23:54 UTC. Whale flow netted 52 BTC of buying.

Net selling for 7 straight days. Whether it's institutional positioning or sentiment-driven, the directional bias was persistent.

Flow and price moved in lockstep (correlation: 0.97). Aggressor-side selling translated directly into price movement with minimal resistance.

Cumulative flow vs return for August 02, 2024

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. 68% of directional flow — 2,082 BTC of selling — came from that single session.

Session returns: Asia -1.82%, Europe +1.66%, US -5.72%. US led the move.

Session Hours (UTC) Return Net Flow Flow Share
Asia 00:00 - 08:00 -1.82% -658 BTC 21%
Europe 08:00 - 14:00 1.66% 325 BTC 11%
US 14:00 - 00:00 -5.72% -2082 BTC 68%
Buy vs sell volume for August 02, 2024

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

Regime Context

Even by bull-regime standards, -5.90% was extreme — -2.2σ from the +0.34% average. This wasn't a normal bull day.

Patterns: bull whale-activity us-dominated outlier-return flow-streak

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