Open
$110,532
Close
$108,298
Return
-2.02%
Net Flow
-3,160 BTC
Volume
37,228 BTC
Buy/Sell Ratio
0.84

Summary

Bitcoin closed at $108,298 on October 21, 2025 after lost 2.0%. Aggressor-side flow netted -3,160 BTC, favoring sellers.

BTC price and volume for October 21, 2025

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. 57 bars of outsized trades (8.4σ peak) from 00:39–18:35 UTC, adding 1,574 BTC of selling pressure on top of the broader selling flow.

Net selling for 9 straight days. Whether it's institutional positioning or sentiment-driven, the directional bias was persistent.

Cumulative flow vs return for October 21, 2025

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

The US session drove 83% of the day's directional flow, with 2,698 BTC of net selling. The other two sessions were comparatively quiet.

The Asia session posted the largest move. Full breakdown: Asia -2.21%, Europe +0.32%, US -0.12%.

Session Hours (UTC) Return Net Flow Flow Share
Asia 00:00 - 08:00 -2.21% -515 BTC 16%
Europe 08:00 - 14:00 0.32% 53 BTC 2%
US 14:00 - 00:00 -0.12% -2698 BTC 83%
Buy vs sell volume for October 21, 2025

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

Regime Context

Flow conviction was unusually strong: 3,160 BTC net selling, registering at -2.1σ relative to other chop-regime days. This wasn't noise — it was a directional statement.

Patterns: chop extreme-flow whale-activity us-dominated flow-streak

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