Open
$95,414
Close
$96,952
Return
+1.61%
Net Flow
+1,098 BTC
Volume
22,852 BTC
Buy/Sell Ratio
1.10

Summary

Bitcoin ground out a +1.61% gain on Wednesday, January 14, 2026, closing at $96,952 as buyers controlled aggregate flow with 1,098 BTC of net pressure.

BTC price and volume for January 14, 2026

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

33 bars of outsized trades (peak 10.3σ) appeared between 00:29–23:10 UTC, with whale flow netting 21 BTC of selling.

Flow reversed midday. The first 12 hours belonged to sellers (-420 BTC), but buyers erased that and then some (+1,518 BTC) in the back half.

A clean, flow-driven day. The 0.95 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 14, 2026

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. 77% of directional flow — 1,562 BTC of buying — came from that single session.

Session returns: Asia -0.22%, Europe -0.22%, US +2.06%. US led the move.

Session Hours (UTC) Return Net Flow Flow Share
Asia 00:00 - 08:00 -0.22% -302 BTC 15%
Europe 08:00 - 14:00 -0.22% -162 BTC 8%
US 14:00 - 00:00 2.06% 1562 BTC 77%
Buy vs sell volume for January 14, 2026

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 1), with the chop regime barely in the rearview mirror.

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

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