Guides

Order flow, options and liquidation guides

Swiftedge has 22 free guides to the order book, options and liquidations for Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana. Each one explains a single chart or number and links to the live page where you can see it right now.

Order book and order flow

Reading the live order book, the trades that hit it and the footprint they leave.

Order book heatmap: free live chart & guideFree live order book heatmap for Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana, and how to read it: where limit orders sit, where liquidity disappears and what price did there.Open the live heatmap →
Crypto liquidity walls: when they breakA liquidity wall is an unusually large resting order. Why some trade and some are pulled, why round numbers attract them and what happens when price arrives.Today's walls →
Bitcoin spoofing: how often big walls are pulledWe classified every large wall in four weeks of the Bitcoin futures order book as held, eaten or pulled. What the numbers show, and what they don't.Watch walls live →
Order flow: takers, makers and absorptionOrder flow is aggressive market orders meeting passive limit orders. What takers and makers do, what absorption looks like and how to tell who is winning.Whale trades, 24 h →
What is CVD? Cumulative volume delta explainedCVD adds up aggressive buying minus aggressive selling. How it is calculated, how to read it with the order book, and what 24,528 hours of BTC data show.CVD in Depth →
Free live Bitcoin footprint chartA free live footprint chart for BTC, ETH and SOL: buying and selling at every price inside each candle, with imbalances, POC and delta. How to read it.Open the footprint chart →
Stacked imbalances explained, with dataA stacked imbalance is aggressive buying or selling that outweighs the other side on several prices in a row. How it works and how long 1,915 BTC zones held.Imbalances live →
Every indicator in Swiftedge Depth, explainedWhat each of the 34 indicators and tools in Swiftedge Depth shows and how to read it: order flow, volume profile, VWAP, options GEX and classic indicators.Open Swiftedge Depth →

Volume profile and market profile

Where volume traded and where price spent its time, per day, session or range.

Free live volume profile chart: BTC, ETH, SOLFree live volume profile chart for Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana: POC, value area and naked POCs per day, session, week or range. How to read it.Open the volume profile →
Free live TPO chart (market profile) for cryptoFree live TPO chart (market profile) for Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana: letters per half hour, TPO POC, value area, initial balance and single prints.Open the TPO profile →

Options, GEX and expiries

What the options market says about levels, hedging flows and expiry days.

How to read a crypto options chainSwiftedge Options shows Bitcoin options as one live chain: strikes as rows, open interest as bars, implied odds as row height. How to read every part.Open the options chain →
What is GEX? Bitcoin gamma exposure explainedGEX estimates how much options dealers must buy or sell to stay hedged as Bitcoin moves. How it is calculated, what it assumes and what it can't tell you.GEX by strike →
Gamma flip in Bitcoin options, explainedThe gamma flip is the price where estimated dealer gamma changes sign. How it is found, why it moves, and what it did and didn't tell us about Bitcoin.Today's gamma flip →
Call wall and put wall in Bitcoin optionsThe call wall and put wall are the strikes with the largest estimated call and put gamma. How they are found, and how they held up in nine months of BTC data.Today's call and put wall →
How options dealers hedge BitcoinDelta hedging, long and short gamma, the 08:00 UTC expiry and the Dealer desk card, explained with numbers, plus why the hedge is hard to see in the data.GEX by strike →
Max pain in Bitcoin options, explainedMax pain is the settlement price at which option holders together collect the least. How it is computed, why it is not a target, and what pinning means.Max pain, every expiry →
Bitcoin options expiry at 08:00 UTC, explainedWhen BTC options expire, how the settlement price is set, how much open interest the 30 October expiry holds, and what two years of data show around 08:00 UTC.Upcoming expiries →

Liquidations

Where forced closes happened, and where the next ones would sit.

Liquidation heatmap vs order book heatmapBoth draw bright bands on a Bitcoin chart, but one shows real resting orders and the other estimates forced closures. How each is made, and what our data shows.Bitcoin liquidation heatmap →
Ethereum liquidation heatmap explainedHow an ETH liquidation heatmap is made, where ETH longs and shorts get liquidated at each leverage, and how ETH compares with Bitcoin in our own data.Ethereum liquidation heatmap →
Solana liquidation heatmap explainedHow a SOL liquidation heatmap is built, where Solana longs and shorts get liquidated at each leverage, and what the bright bands can and cannot tell you.Solana liquidation heatmap →

India (IST)

The same markets on Indian Standard Time.

Bitcoin options expiry time in IST (India)Bitcoin options expire at 13:30 IST on the global exchanges and 17:30 IST on Delta Exchange India. Daily, weekly and monthly expiries and what to watch.Bitcoin today in India →
Crypto market hours in IST (India)When the crypto market is busiest in India: Tokyo, London and New York opens, funding, options expiry, CPI, FOMC and the CME gap, all in IST.Bitcoin today in India →

Live numbers

The numbers behind the options guides, updated all day: max pain and the put/call ratio for every expiry, GEX by strike, today's levels and the kimchi premium.

Reference

Every term used on the site is defined in the order flow and options glossary, and the FAQ answers the questions traders ask most. Comparing tools? See how Swiftedge compares with Bookmap, CoinGlass and Hyblock.