Buy sweeps
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What is Buy sweeps?
Buy sweeps is a market-data metric that BlackForge measures for every listed pair on the major spot exchanges, in real time. How many times a taker buy took out more than one price level at once: buy prints sharing one millisecond across at least two prices.
The facts
| Unit | count |
|---|---|
| Family | Trade timing |
| Key | buySweepCount |
| Quote-relative | No |
| Nullable | Yes |
| Plottable | Yes |
| Available from | Max plan |
Live across every venue
Buy sweeps for BTC-USDT, as measured in the latest closed window on each venue. Observed . A venue with no reading for this window shows n/a. Nothing is invented.
| Venue | Symbol | Buy sweeps |
|---|---|---|
| Binance | BTCUSDT | 10 |
| Bitget | BTCUSDT | 3 |
| Bybit | BTCUSDT | 9 |
| Coinbase | BTC-USDT | 0 |
| Gate | BTC_USDT | 0 |
| Kraken | BTCUSDT | 0 |
| Kucoin | BTC-USDT | 0 |
| Mexc | BTCUSDT | 6 |
| Okx | BTC-USDT | 2 |
Query it
Buy sweeps is one field on the wide row /v1/latest returns for a pair. Set $BF to the API base and read it at .values.buySweepCount:
curl -H "x-api-key: $BLACKFORGE_API_KEY" \
"$BF/v1/latest?exchange=binance&symbol=BTCUSDT"
# read the value at: .values.buySweepCountRelated
When trades landed within the window and how they were spaced.
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What is Buy sweeps?
Buy sweeps is a market-data metric that BlackForge measures for every listed pair on the major spot exchanges, in real time. How many times a taker buy took out more than one price level at once: buy prints sharing one millisecond across at least two prices.
How is Buy sweeps measured?
BlackForge computes Buy sweeps from each venue’s own order book and trades for every listed pair, in real time, and records it as count. The value is stored exactly as observed.
Which plan includes Buy sweeps?
Buy sweeps is available from the Max plan upward, and on pay-per-call over x402. See pricing for the full plan ladder.
Does Buy sweeps predict where price will go?
No. Buy sweeps 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.