Open
$42,284
Close
$44,180
Return
+4.48%
Net Flow
+1,489 BTC
Volume
27,174 BTC
Buy/Sell Ratio
1.12

Summary

Bitcoin climbed +4.5% on Monday, January 01, 2024, closing at $44,180 as buyers controlled aggregate flow with 1,489 BTC of net pressure.

BTC price and volume for January 01, 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

Sustained large-player buying throughout the day. 24 bars with trade sizes 3σ+ above normal (peak: 9.5σ), spread across 00:21–23:52 UTC. The 350 BTC of whale flow reinforced the day's buying bias.

Net buying for 3 straight days. Whether it's institutional positioning or sentiment-driven, the directional bias was persistent.

A clean, flow-driven day. The 0.98 correlation between cumulative flow and price means buying pressure was the dominant force — no hidden passive flow muddying the signal.

Cumulative flow vs return for January 01, 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. 84% of directional flow — 1,245 BTC of buying — came from that single session.

Session returns: Asia +0.49%, Europe +0.52%, US +3.43%. US led the move.

Session Hours (UTC) Return Net Flow Flow Share
Asia 00:00 - 08:00 0.49% 197 BTC 13%
Europe 08:00 - 14:00 0.52% 47 BTC 3%
US 14:00 - 00:00 3.43% 1245 BTC 84%
Buy vs sell volume for January 01, 2024

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

Regime Context

Day 1 of a fresh bull regime. The market had just flipped from chop, and the new character was still establishing itself.

Patterns: bull whale-activity us-dominated regime-start flow-streak

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