Ask liquidity removed
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What is Ask liquidity removed?
Ask liquidity removed is a market-data metric BlackForge measures for every listed pair on nine spot exchanges, once per closed five-minute window. Gross decrease in sell-side resting size across the window, with trades at the same price within 500 ms netted out (measured to remove under 0.3% of the total).
The facts
| Unit | quote |
|---|---|
| Family | Book churn |
| Key | askLiqRemoved |
| Quote-relative | Yes |
| Nullable | No |
| Plottable | Yes |
| Available from | Max plan |
Live across all nine venues
Ask liquidity removed for BTC-USDT, as measured in the latest closed window on each venue. Observed . A venue with no reading for this window shows an em dash — nothing is invented.
| Venue | Symbol | Ask liquidity removed |
|---|---|---|
| Binance | BTCUSDT | 240,515,149 |
| Bitget | BTCUSDT | 167,377,014 |
| Bybit | BTCUSDT | 136,849,797 |
| Coinbase | BTC-USDT | 5,185,730 |
| Gate | BTC_USDT | 27,694,511 |
| Kraken | BTCUSDT | 124,867,484 |
| Kucoin | BTC-USDT | 162,627,759 |
| Mexc | BTCUSDT | 15,250,734,892 |
| Okx | BTC-USDT | 336,942,778 |
Query it
Ask liquidity removed is one field on the wide row /v1/latest returns for a pair. Set $BF to the API base and read it at .values.askLiqRemoved:
curl -H "x-api-key: $BLACKFORGE_API_KEY" \
"$BF/v1/latest?exchange=binance&symbol=BTCUSDT"
# read the value at: .values.askLiqRemovedRelated
Liquidity added and removed, price levels changed, and how long a level survives before it is pulled.
Defined in the glossary: Liquidity added and removed, Resting order lifetime.
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What is Ask liquidity removed?
Ask liquidity removed is a market-data metric BlackForge measures for every listed pair on nine spot exchanges, once per closed five-minute window. Gross decrease in sell-side resting size across the window, with trades at the same price within 500 ms netted out (measured to remove under 0.3% of the total).
How is Ask liquidity removed measured?
BlackForge computes Ask liquidity removed from each venue’s own order book and trades for every listed pair, once per closed five-minute window, and records it as quote. Because it is quote-relative, it is expressed in the pair’s quote asset. The value is stored exactly as observed.
Which plan includes Ask liquidity removed?
Ask liquidity removed is available from the Max plan upward, and on pay-per-call over x402. See pricing for the full plan ladder.
Does Ask liquidity removed predict where price will go?
No. Ask liquidity removed is a measurement of what the order book or trade tape showed in the window. It carries no view on future price, and BlackForge scores nothing — every metric is a measurement, not a call.