BTC taker buy/sell ratio
BTC taker buy/sell ratio: the volume bought by market orders divided by the volume sold by market orders. Above 1, takers bought more BTC than they sold. The table shows it over the last 1, 4 and 24 hours on each exchange, perps and spot apart, and the chart shows its history.
Over the last 24 hours, BTC takers bought $17.64B and sold $16.23B on spot and perps together: a ratio of 1.09, more buying than selling. Split by market, the 24h ratio is 1.10 on perpetual futures and 0.99 on spot. By exchange, Hyperliquid perp leaned most to buying (1.17) and Bybit spot most to selling (0.96). BTC ranks #5 of 50 by 24h taker buy/sell ratio among the top coins by open interest.
BTC taker buy/sell ratio by exchange
taker buys ÷ taker sells| Exchange | Market | Ratio 1h | Ratio 4h | Ratio 24h | Buy % 24h | Vol 24h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Binance | Spot | 1.06 | 1.09 | 1.00 | 50.0% | $2.35B |
| Bybit | Spot | 0.93 | 1.04 | 0.96 | 48.9% | $652.23M |
| Binance | Perp | 0.94 | 1.17 | 1.08 | 52.0% | $20.94B |
| Bybit | Perp | 0.98 | 1.14 | 1.11 | 52.6% | $7.01B |
| Hyperliquid | Perp | 1.53 | 1.49 | 1.17 | 54.0% | $2.91B |
| All exchanges | Perp | 1.00 | 1.19 | 1.10 | 52.3% | $30.86B |
| All exchanges | Spot | 1.03 | 1.08 | 0.99 | 49.8% | $3.00B |
| Spot + perp | Both | 1.01 | 1.18 | 1.09 | 52.1% | $33.87B |
BTC taker buy share history
Gate perp from Oct 2023 · Binance perp live · 50% = ratio 1View chart data
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BTC taker buy and sell volume
All exchanges with a taker split, spot + perpView chart data
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How to read it. A ratio above 1 (green) means takers bought more BTC than they sold over the window; below 1 (red), more selling. Within 3% of 1 counts as even. The history chart shows the taker buy share, buys ÷ (buys + sells): 50% is a ratio of 1, 55% about 1.22. Its long history is Gate's BTC USDT perpetual (hourly, from October 2023, where Gate's history is stored); Binance's 5-minute futures taker ratio is shown from when this site began recording it. Net dollar flow is on the BTC CVD page, positioning on the BTC long/short ratio, price and funding on the BTC page. Not financial advice.
Live ratios from Binance, Bybit, Hyperliquid (1-minute bars recorded from their public feeds). Minutes without a taker split are excluded from both buys and sells.
BTC taker buy/sell ratio FAQ
What does the BTC taker buy/sell ratio show?
It is BTC taker buy volume divided by taker sell volume, from this site's 1-minute bars of every exchange that reports a taker split. The history chart plots the taker buy share (buys over buys plus sells; 50% is a ratio of 1) for Gate's BTC USDT perpetual from October 2023 and Binance's BTC futures since this site began recording it.
What is the taker buy/sell ratio?
A taker is the side of a trade that crosses the spread with a market order. The taker buy/sell ratio is the volume bought by takers divided by the volume sold by takers over a window. A ratio of 1.20 means takers bought 20% more than they sold; 0.80 means they sold 25% more than they bought. It measures aggression, not positioning: every trade has a buyer and a seller, and the ratio only says which side was in a hurry.
How is it calculated here, and what is left out?
From the 1-minute bars this site records from each exchange's public feed: taker buys are the bar's taker buy volume and taker sells are its volume minus taker buys, summed over the window. Minutes whose feed carries no taker buy/sell split (a feed without the split, the first minute after a reconnect, or one the stream missed) are excluded from both sides rather than counted as selling. When nothing at all was sold the ratio is undefined and shown as a dash.