Open
$61,484
Close
$62,940
Return
+2.37%
Net Flow
+702 BTC
Volume
32,733 BTC
Buy/Sell Ratio
1.04

Summary

May 13, 2024: Bitcoin climbed +2.4%. The 702 BTC of net buying flow at $62,940 told a clear story — buyers were in charge.

BTC price and volume for May 13, 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

The big players were active all day. 36 bars of outsized trades (5.9σ peak) from 01:15–23:03 UTC, adding 530 BTC of buying pressure on top of the broader buying flow.

A clean, flow-driven day. The 0.96 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 May 13, 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

Most of the action happened during Europe hours, which accounted for 67% of the day's net flow (631 BTC buying). The rest of the day was a footnote.

Breaking it down by session: Asia +1.38%, Europe +0.71%, US +0.26%. Asia stood out.

Session Hours (UTC) Return Net Flow Flow Share
Asia 00:00 - 08:00 1.38% 193 BTC 20%
Europe 08:00 - 14:00 0.71% 631 BTC 67%
US 14:00 - 00:00 0.26% -122 BTC 13%
Buy vs sell volume for May 13, 2024

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

Regime Context

The bear regime was running out of road — 0 day(s) before the market shifted to chop. The transition was already underway in hindsight.

Patterns: bear whale-activity europe-dominated regime-end

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