Crypto volume movers

The same board, in the app

This page is a 15-minute snapshot of the top rows. The live board is open to guests too, and it does more with the same numbers.

Every row gets a read

The board combines the volume multiple, the price move over the same window and the taker split into one tag: Breakout, Breakdown, Buy wall, Sell wall, Absorption or a buy/sell divergence.

A pulse across all the surges

Above the table: how many coins running 2× normal or more are led by aggressive buyers versus sellers, the total dollar volume trading abnormally right now, the hottest multiple on the board and the largest surge by real money.

Filters for small markets

A minimum window volume of $50K, $250K or $1M, plus minimum market-cap and 24-hour-volume floors. Sort by multiple, by dollar volume or by price move. Signed in, you can scope the whole board to one of your watchlists.

Top Surges or All Markets

The leaderboard view ranks the top 50. The All Markets view lists every scanned symbol with search and paging, for when you want to check one specific coin rather than see what is loudest.

Open a row for the context

A price and volume chart over the window, the dollar and token volume, the price change, the taker buy share, 24-hour change, and 8-hour funding when you are on futures.

Windows, venues, and one click out

Switch between 1m, 5m, 15m, 30m and 1h windows, and between Binance spot and the Binance, Bybit, OKX, Gate.io and HTX perpetuals; the data refreshes every 30 seconds. From any row, jump to the full chart, compare that coin's price across exchanges, or set an alert on it.

If you would rather read volume next to everything else moving, the markets overview puts volume surges on one screen with the 5-minute top movers, funding extremes and the last 24 hours of liquidations.

Volume alerts

Set a volume alert on one coin, or scan every coin on a venue at once, and CoinBeacon notifies you when a closed candle trades at or above the multiple of its 20-candle average volume you chose, on timeframes down to one minute.

How to read this board

01

× Normal, not raw volume

Ranking by raw volume lists the biggest coins every time. Comparing each coin to its own baseline shows the ones trading unusually.

02

The taker split

Ten times normal volume that is 90% sell-side is heavy selling; the same volume 90% buy-side is heavy buying. Volume without direction only shows that something happened.

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Volume and price

A price move that already happened is on the gainers board. An unusual volume surge can come before a move or accompany a breakout. Read this alongside the price movers; the live pump and dump tape applies the same logic per event, marking a move volume-confirmed only when relative volume backs it.

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Reading the three columns together

Each number means more with the other two. A big multiple with a flat price and one-sided aggression is supply or demand being absorbed at a level, not a breakout. The in-app board labels each row with that combined reading.

Volume movers FAQ

What are crypto volume movers?

Volume movers are coins trading far more than they normally do over a short window. Unlike a gainers list, which ranks by price, this ranks by how unusual the trading activity is.

What does the × Normal column mean?

It is how many times the coin's volume over the last 15 minutes exceeds its own normal volume for a span that long. Normal is the coin's average per-minute volume over the two hours of closed 1-minute candles immediately before the window, scaled up to the window length. A reading of 5× means five times its usual activity. As a rough scale, 2× or more is unusual and 5× or more is a large spike. Because every coin is compared to itself, a small coin with a surge can rank alongside a major, which a raw volume list would not show.

What is the taker flow: buy or sell?

It is which side was the aggressor. “Buy” means market buyers were lifting the ask; “Sell” means market sellers were hitting the bid. “Mixed” is a near 50/50 split. This is order aggression, not whether the candle closed green: heavy volume that is 90% sell-side differs from the same volume at 90% buy-side.

What does an “absorption” or “sell wall” reading mean?

Those are the labels the in-app board puts on each row after combining the three things it already knows: the volume multiple, the price move over the same window, and the taker split. Rising price on aggressive buying is a breakout; falling price on aggressive selling is a breakdown. Aggressive buying with price stuck is a sell wall: resting supply is absorbing the bids. Aggressive selling with price holding is a buy wall. Heavy two-way volume that goes nowhere is absorption. Buying into a falling price, or selling into a rising one, is flagged as a divergence.

What is the visible book on the board?

When a coin enters the top 30, CoinBeacon reads that exchange's public order book for it once. The board shows the dollars of buy orders and sell orders waiting within 2% of the price at that moment, with the time of the read, and the app's detail panel adds the bid-ask spread and what a $1,000 or $10,000 market order would have paid. A coin that stays in the top 30 is read again about every 15 minutes. Orders can be added or cancelled at any moment and some never show in a public book, so it is a snapshot, not the live book. When every level one read returns lies within 2% of the price, the board shows at least what the read holds, marked ≥. A dash means there is no read for that coin yet.

Which market does this cover?

The board on this page ranks Binance USDⓈ-M perpetual futures. In the app you can switch to Binance spot or to the Bybit, OKX, Gate.io or HTX perpetuals, and change the window between 1, 5, 15, 30 and 60 minutes. Each venue is ranked on its own closed one-minute candles; exchanges are not merged. The buy or sell lean needs the taker split in the candles, which only Binance publishes, so elsewhere it is left unknown.

How do I filter out microcap volume spikes?

Most of the largest multiples belong to thin markets where a single order is ten times normal. The in-app board has a minimum window-volume filter ($50K, $250K or $1M traded) plus minimum market-cap and 24-hour-volume floors, so only larger surges remain. The board also drops markets whose baseline volume is below a liquidity floor before ranking anything.

Why watch volume as well as price?

Price shows how far a coin moved; volume shows how much trading was behind the move. An unusual volume surge, especially a one-sided one, shows strong participation.

Can I get alerted on a volume spike?

Yes. Rather than watching this board, set a volume alert: pick a market on Binance spot or futures or the Bybit, OKX, Gate.io or HTX perpetuals, a timeframe from 1m to 4h and a multiplier of at least 2×, and CoinBeacon messages you by email, push notifications, Telegram, Discord, Slack or a webhook when a closed candle trades that multiple of its 20-candle average volume. You can point it at one coin or run it as a scan across every coin on the venue (one market each, stablecoins and barely traded markets left out). The cooldown you set spaces the messages; one shorter than the timeframe can report the same candle again. The free plan covers 5 active alerts and 10 notifications a day.

The other live boards

1. 01Pumping & Dumping: Coins moving abnormally fast, right now→
2. 02Liquidations: Live futures liquidations across the market→
3. 03Funding rates: Live perp funding across 8 futures venues→
4. 04Multi-exchange: Follow a coin across 44 exchanges→
5. 05New listings: Coins trading for the first time on 8 exchanges→
6. 06Market scanner: Scan every coin for momentum, RSI, MACD & more→