Q taker buy/sell ratio
Q taker buy/sell ratio: the volume bought by market orders divided by the volume sold by market orders. Above 1, takers bought more Q 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, Q takers bought $105.4M and sold $94.1M on spot and perps together: a ratio of 1.12, more buying than selling. By exchange, Bybit perp leaned most to buying (1.17) and Binance perp most to selling (1.11).
Q taker buy/sell ratio by exchange
taker buys ÷ taker sells| Exchange | Market | Ratio 1h | Ratio 4h | Ratio 24h | Buy % 24h | Vol 24h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Binance | Perp | 1.10 | 1.07 | 1.11 | 52.6% | $166.34M |
| Bybit | Perp | 0.90 | 1.09 | 1.17 | 54.0% | $33.17M |
| All exchanges | Perp | 1.06 | 1.07 | 1.12 | 52.8% | $199.51M |
| Spot + perp | Both | 1.06 | 1.07 | 1.12 | 52.8% | $199.51M |
Q taker buy share history
Gate perp from Oct 2023 · Binance perp live · 50% = ratio 1Loading chart…
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Q taker buy and sell volume
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How to read it. What is the taker buy/sell ratio? A ratio above 1 (green) means takers bought more Q 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 Q 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 Q CVD page, positioning on the Q long/short ratio, price and funding on the Q page. Not financial advice.
Live ratios from Binance, Bybit (1-minute bars recorded from their public feeds). Minutes without a taker split are excluded from both buys and sells.
Q taker buy/sell ratio FAQ
What does the Q taker buy/sell ratio show?
It is Q 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 Q USDT perpetual from October 2023 and Binance's Q 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.