Who Is Hitting the Market With Size Right Now?
In the last 24 hours our sockets recorded 12946 aggressive sweeps of $1M or more: $18.59B bought and $19.49B sold.
When someone crosses the spread with a million dollars or more in one aggressive order, they are paying for immediacy, and that urgency is information. This tape captures every such print on the Binance, Bybit, OKX, Gate, Bitget, HTX, MEXC and Hyperliquid perpetuals and Coinbase and Kraken spot pairs our sockets watch: the aggressor's side, the price, the notional and the moment it hit. Live strip on this page, every print recorded since 2026-08-13, side conventions stated plainly.
Venues contributing: 10 of 10 · all fresh · as of 16:58 UTC
BTCUSDT with Perp CVD · Spot CVD
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Newest first, refreshed every 20 seconds. Side is the AGGRESSOR: a BUY row means someone crossed the spread upward with size.
Methodology and honest limits
Source: our own always-on trade sockets to Binance, Bybit, OKX, Gate, Bitget, HTX, MEXC and Hyperliquid perpetuals and Coinbase and Kraken spot pairs (the same feed that powers the flow and CVD pages). A row is an aggressive SWEEP: same-side prints on a symbol are summed over a rolling 1-second window, and a burst opens when that sum reaches $1M. The row carries the whole burst, every print counted once, and is written when the burst has ended; a burst that runs longer than 5 seconds is written as consecutive rows that add up and never overlap. Otherwise one burst is one row. Rows written before the release of 11 November 2026 hold only the last second of their burst, and in the 7 days to 9 November 2026, 6 to 12 percent of each venue's rows began within a second of the previous row. The side shown is the aggressor's.
The 1-second window catches orders that sweep several price levels, but slower slicing and iceberg executions still hide size, so treat counts as a floor, not a census. Passive whales (resting limit orders) are invisible here by definition; the tape measures urgency, not holdings.
Venues: Binance, Bybit, OKX, Gate, Bitget, HTX, MEXC and Hyperliquid (perps), Coinbase and Kraken (spot); each venue joined after a dark observation day compared against Binance. Recording started 2026-08-13 and every print is kept; there is no reconstructed history because no honest source for it exists.
FAQ
Does a giant buy print mean the price will go up?
No. It means someone paid a premium for immediacy. Clusters of same-side urgency around a level are context worth reading with the liquidation map, not a signal on their own.
Why $1M as the line?
It is far above retail clip sizes on every symbol we track, and it keeps the tape readable: dozens of prints per day rather than thousands. The threshold is stated so you can judge it.
Can whales hide from this tape?
Easily: slicing into sub-$1M child orders, icebergs or passive resting orders all evade it. That is exactly why we call it a floor on urgency rather than a whale census.
Where is the history?
Every print since 2026-08-13 is recorded and none is deleted. The public API returns the latest prints and the 24h totals; the whale-trades-daily dataset holds one row per symbol and day, and the raw prints are on the paid route.
What happened after days like this?
Every recorded day is grouped by where this metric sat; each band shows the median BTC move that followed. Distribution, not prediction.
Today sits in the "Very low" band of the recorded history so far. Not enough history in this band yet for an honest read (n=16, we show nothing below 30).
| Band | Range | Days | Next 24h | Next 72h | Next 7d | Up next 7d |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Very lowtoday | 42.2% … 46.7% | 16 | not enough history (n<30) | |||
| Low | 46.7% … 47.9% | 18 | not enough history (n<30) | |||
| Mid | 47.9% … 49.4% | 17 | not enough history (n<30) | |||
| High | 49.4% … 50.6% | 18 | not enough history (n<30) | |||
| Very high | 50.6% … 62.5% | 18 | not enough history (n<30) | |||
| All days (base rate) | 87 | +0.0% | -0.2% | -0.9% | 40% | |
Median BTC move after each band. Records since 2026-08-13 (94 days). History, not a forecast.
Source: ByKaranteli, https://bykaranteli.com/whales, data as of 2026-11-15 16:58 UTC