Open
$88,659
Close
$88,621
Return
-0.04%
Net Flow
-134 BTC
Volume
14,673 BTC
Buy/Sell Ratio
0.98

Summary

Bitcoin traded flat on Monday, December 22, 2025, closing at $88,621 as sellers controlled aggregate flow with 134 BTC of net pressure.

BTC price and volume for December 22, 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

Large-player activity detected: 36 bars with trade sizes 3σ+ above normal (peak: 7.8σ) between 00:10–23:48 UTC. Whale flow netted 235 BTC of buying.

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

Cumulative flow vs return for December 22, 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

US traders set the tone. 86% of directional flow — 146 BTC of selling — came from that single session.

Session returns: Asia +0.58%, Europe +0.83%, US -1.44%. US led the move.

Session Hours (UTC) Return Net Flow Flow Share
Asia 00:00 - 08:00 0.58% -6 BTC 4%
Europe 08:00 - 14:00 0.83% 18 BTC 10%
US 14:00 - 00:00 -1.44% -146 BTC 86%
Buy vs sell volume for December 22, 2025

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

Regime Context

Nothing unusual for a chop-regime day. The -0.04% return was consistent with the period's average of +0.10%.

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

Related Days

Days with similar flow patterns and market conditions.

Mar 22, 2021CHOP
-5.70%
whale-activity us-dominated outlier-return high-volatility flow-streak
Mar 24, 2021CHOP
-3.75%
extreme-flow whale-activity us-dominated high-volatility flow-streak
Mar 27, 2021CHOP
+1.44%
whale-activity us-dominated flow-streak
Apr 22, 2021CHOP
-3.90%
extreme-flow whale-activity us-dominated regime-end high-volatility flow-streak
May 10, 2021CHOP
-4.16%
extreme-flow whale-activity flow-reversal us-dominated regime-start regime-end high-volatility flow-streak

Explore this day's minute-level flow data interactively on the dashboard.

Open Dashboard