Who Is Hitting the Market With Size Right Now?
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 USDT-M perpetuals our sockets watch: the aggressor's side, the price, the notional and the moment it hit. Live strip on this page, archived for 90 days, side conventions stated plainly.
In the last 24 hours our sockets recorded 46 aggressive prints of $1M or more: $45.8M bought and $23.8M sold with urgency. The tape below updates every 20 seconds.
The live tape
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 aggTrade sockets to Binance USDT-M perpetuals (the same feed that powers the flow and CVD pages). A row is an aggressive SWEEP: same-side prints on a symbol summed over a rolling 1-second window, recorded once when the sum crosses $1M (one burst, one 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.
Binance USDT-M only for now; the venue column is ready for Bybit and OKX expansion. Recording started 2026-08-13 with 90-day retention; 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?
The tape archives 90 days on a rolling basis via the public API. Longer aggregates fold into our daily datasets as the record deepens.