Open
$28,295
Close
$27,454
Return
-2.97%
Net Flow
-3,343 BTC
Volume
86,242 BTC
Buy/Sell Ratio
0.93

Summary

On Friday, March 24, 2023, Bitcoin fell 3.0% to $27,454. Net flow: -3,343 BTC — sellers had the edge.

BTC price and volume for March 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 (5.3σ peak) from 02:03–19:08 UTC, adding 519 BTC of selling pressure on top of the broader selling flow.

A clean, flow-driven day. The 0.95 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 March 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

Across sessions: Asia -0.07%, Europe -0.69%, US -2.23% — with US doing the heavy lifting.

Session Hours (UTC) Return Net Flow Flow Share
Asia 00:00 - 08:00 -0.07% -581 BTC 17%
Europe 08:00 - 14:00 -0.69% -807 BTC 24%
US 14:00 - 00:00 -2.23% -1955 BTC 58%
Buy vs sell volume for March 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

This was near the start of a bull regime (day 2), with the bear regime barely in the rearview mirror.

With -3,343 BTC of net flow (-2.0σ), selling pressure ran above the bull-regime baseline of -386 BTC.

Patterns: bull whale-activity regime-start

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