Bid depth to -5%
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What is Bid depth to -5%?
Bid depth to -5% is a market-data metric BlackForge measures for every listed pair on nine spot exchanges, once per closed five-minute window. Resting buy liquidity from the best bid down to 5% below it. It reports what the order book or trade tape showed, not what price will do next.
The facts
| Unit | quote |
|---|---|
| Family | Depth bands |
| Key | downDepth5 |
| Quote-relative | Yes |
| Nullable | No |
| Plottable | Yes |
| Available from | Free plan |
Live across all nine venues
Bid depth to -5% 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 | Bid depth to -5% |
|---|---|---|
| Binance | BTCUSDT | 48,054,762 |
| Bitget | BTCUSDT | 6,077,842 |
| Bybit | BTCUSDT | 5,554,481 |
| Coinbase | BTC-USDT | 447,582 |
| Gate | BTC_USDT | 27,503,357 |
| Kraken | BTCUSDT | 2,878,719 |
| Kucoin | BTC-USDT | 4,036,136 |
| Mexc | BTCUSDT | 8,201,302 |
| Okx | BTC-USDT | 3,669,494 |
Query it
Bid depth to -5% is one field on the wide row /v1/latest returns for a pair. Set $BF to the API base and read it at .values.downDepth5:
curl -H "x-api-key: $BLACKFORGE_API_KEY" \
"$BF/v1/latest?exchange=binance&symbol=BTCUSDT"
# read the value at: .values.downDepth5Related
How much is resting on the book within fixed percentage distances of the price.
Defined in the glossary: Order book depth.
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What is Bid depth to -5%?
Bid depth to -5% is a market-data metric BlackForge measures for every listed pair on nine spot exchanges, once per closed five-minute window. Resting buy liquidity from the best bid down to 5% below it. It reports what the order book or trade tape showed, not what price will do next.
How is Bid depth to -5% measured?
BlackForge computes Bid depth to -5% 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 Bid depth to -5%?
Bid depth to -5% is available from the Free plan upward, and on pay-per-call over x402. See pricing for the full plan ladder.
Does Bid depth to -5% predict where price will go?
No. Bid depth to -5% 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.