Open
$22,918
Close
$22,633
Return
-1.24%
Net Flow
-4,679 BTC
Volume
293,159 BTC
Buy/Sell Ratio
0.97

Summary

On Tuesday, January 24, 2023, Bitcoin slipped 1.24% to $22,633. Net flow: -4,679 BTC — sellers had the edge.

BTC price and volume for January 24, 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. 18 bars of outsized trades (6.4σ peak) from 01:09–23:20 UTC, adding 1,218 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.

Cumulative flow vs return for January 24, 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

Strip out US and the day would look flat. That session alone contributed 61% of the net flow (2,867 BTC selling).

Across sessions: Asia +0.59%, Europe -0.84%, US -1.00% — with US doing the heavy lifting.

Session Hours (UTC) Return Net Flow Flow Share
Asia 00:00 - 08:00 0.59% -214 BTC 5%
Europe 08:00 - 14:00 -0.84% -1598 BTC 34%
US 14:00 - 00:00 -1.00% -2867 BTC 61%
Buy vs sell volume for January 24, 2023

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

Regime Context

At -2.8σ from the bull-regime average, this was one of the most intense selling days in the period — 4,679 BTC of net pressure overwhelmed the typical flow pattern.

Volume ran hot: 293,159 BTC traded, +2.9σ above the bull-regime average. High volume days tend to carry more signal.

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

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