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How order flow works, in plain English
Short, practical pieces on reading crypto volume: what a spike means, why a whale transfer is not a trade, how to set an alert threshold you will not end up muting. No calls, no price targets, no win rates.
What order flow actually tells you — and what it doesn’t
Order flow is the least mystical thing in trading: it is the list of trades that actually happened. The value is in reading it honestly — including the parts it cannot tell you.
AlertsHow to set a crypto volume alert you won’t end up muting
Almost everyone configures alerts the same way: pick a number that sounds big, get buried, mute the app. The fix is to start from how often you want to be interrupted.
Order flowWhale alerts vs order flow: a wallet transfer is not a trade
“Whale moves 5,000 BTC to Binance” is one of the most-shared and least-actionable notifications in crypto. Here is what it actually reports, and what reports the thing you wanted to know.
Order flowBuy/sell delta, explained without the jargon
Every trade has a buyer and a seller, so “buy volume” sounds like nonsense. It isn’t — but only because of one specific convention. Once you know it, delta becomes readable.
VolumeWhat a pump looks like in the flow before the candle closes
By the time a green candle closes, the interesting part is over. The trade feed shows the same event as it happens — and organic moves and manufactured ones do not look alike.
AlertsWhy crypto alert thresholds belong in BTC, not dollars
One number, many markets. A dollar threshold cannot do that job — it is simultaneously too high for the coins where you want warning and too low for the ones you follow anyway.