Cost of a $1,000 market sell
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What is Cost of a $1,000 market sell?
Cost of a $1,000 market sell is a market-data metric that BlackForge measures for every listed pair on the major spot exchanges, in real time. What a $1,000 market sell would have cost against the mid price, in basis points, walking the resting buy orders from the best bid when the book was read.
The facts
| Unit | bps |
|---|---|
| Family | Market order cost |
| Key | sellCost1kBps |
| Quote-relative | No |
| Nullable | Yes |
| Plottable | Yes |
| Available from | Max plan |
Live across every venue
Cost of a $1,000 market sell 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 | Cost of a $1,000 market sell |
|---|---|---|
| Binance | BTCUSDT | 0.00060858 |
| Bitget | BTCUSDT | 0.00060861 |
| Bybit | BTCUSDT | 0.00608574 |
| Coinbase | BTC-USDT | 0.5234 |
| Gate | BTC_USDT | 0.00608644 |
| Kraken | BTCUSDT | 0.00608622 |
| Kucoin | BTC-USDT | 0.00608612 |
| Mexc | BTCUSDT | 0.00486876 |
| Okx | BTC-USDT | 0.00608609 |
Query it
Cost of a $1,000 market sell is one field on the wide row /v1/latest returns for a pair. Set $BF to the API base and read it at .values.sellCost1kBps:
curl -H "x-api-key: $BLACKFORGE_API_KEY" \
"$BF/v1/latest?exchange=binance&symbol=BTCUSDT"
# read the value at: .values.sellCost1kBpsRelated
What a $1k, $10k or $100k market buy or sell would have cost against the mid, from the resting book.
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What is Cost of a $1,000 market sell?
Cost of a $1,000 market sell is a market-data metric that BlackForge measures for every listed pair on the major spot exchanges, in real time. What a $1,000 market sell would have cost against the mid price, in basis points, walking the resting buy orders from the best bid when the book was read.
How is Cost of a $1,000 market sell measured?
BlackForge computes Cost of a $1,000 market sell from each venue’s own order book and trades for every listed pair, in real time, and records it as bps. The value is stored exactly as observed.
Which plan includes Cost of a $1,000 market sell?
Cost of a $1,000 market sell is available from the Max plan upward, and on pay-per-call over x402. See pricing for the full plan ladder.
Does Cost of a $1,000 market sell predict where price will go?
No. Cost of a $1,000 market sell 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.