Open
$78,741
Close
$76,968
Return
-2.25%
Net Flow
-1,332 BTC
Volume
25,395 BTC
Buy/Sell Ratio
0.90

Summary

Bitcoin closed at $76,968 on February 01, 2026 after sold off 2.3%. Aggressor-side flow netted -1,332 BTC, favoring sellers.

BTC price and volume for February 01, 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

The big players were active all day. 25 bars of outsized trades (10.7σ peak) from 00:11–23:37 UTC, adding 375 BTC of selling pressure on top of the broader selling flow.

Net selling for 5 straight days. Whether it's institutional positioning or sentiment-driven, the directional bias was persistent.

Flow and price moved in lockstep (correlation: 0.91). Aggressor-side selling translated directly into price movement with minimal resistance.

Cumulative flow vs return for February 01, 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

The US session drove 82% of the day's directional flow, with 1,096 BTC of net selling. The other two sessions were comparatively quiet.

The US session posted the largest move. Full breakdown: Asia -0.51%, Europe -0.03%, US -1.72%.

Session Hours (UTC) Return Net Flow Flow Share
Asia 00:00 - 08:00 -0.51% -182 BTC 14%
Europe 08:00 - 14:00 -0.03% -53 BTC 4%
US 14:00 - 00:00 -1.72% -1096 BTC 82%
Buy vs sell volume for February 01, 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 bear regime (day 2), with the chop regime barely in the rearview mirror.

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

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