Ask volume 0 to 3%
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What is Ask volume 0 to 3%?
Ask volume 0 to 3% is a market-data metric BlackForge measures for every listed pair on nine spot exchanges, once per closed five-minute window. Resting sell liquidity in the slice from 0 to 3% above top of book. It reports what the order book or trade tape showed, not what price will do next.
The facts
| Unit | quote |
|---|---|
| Family | Order ladders |
| Key | sellOrderVol3 |
| Quote-relative | Yes |
| Nullable | No |
| Plottable | Yes |
| Available from | Free plan |
Live across all nine venues
Ask volume 0 to 3% 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 volume 0 to 3% |
|---|---|---|
| Binance | BTCUSDT | 25,877,175 |
| Bitget | BTCUSDT | 14,877,226 |
| Bybit | BTCUSDT | 3,912,579 |
| Coinbase | BTC-USDT | 379,268 |
| Gate | BTC_USDT | 14,883,706 |
| Kraken | BTCUSDT | 1,766,887 |
| Kucoin | BTC-USDT | 7,401,118 |
| Mexc | BTCUSDT | 4,155,059 |
| Okx | BTC-USDT | 9,499,089 |
Query it
Ask volume 0 to 3% is one field on the wide row /v1/latest returns for a pair. Set $BF to the API base and read it at .values.sellOrderVol3:
curl -H "x-api-key: $BLACKFORGE_API_KEY" \
"$BF/v1/latest?exchange=binance&symbol=BTCUSDT"
# read the value at: .values.sellOrderVol3Related
The shape of the resting book: how size stacks across successive rungs on each side.
Defined in the glossary: Order book imbalance.
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What is Ask volume 0 to 3%?
Ask volume 0 to 3% is a market-data metric BlackForge measures for every listed pair on nine spot exchanges, once per closed five-minute window. Resting sell liquidity in the slice from 0 to 3% above top of book. It reports what the order book or trade tape showed, not what price will do next.
How is Ask volume 0 to 3% measured?
BlackForge computes Ask volume 0 to 3% 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 volume 0 to 3%?
Ask volume 0 to 3% is available from the Free plan upward, and on pay-per-call over x402. See pricing for the full plan ladder.
Does Ask volume 0 to 3% predict where price will go?
No. Ask volume 0 to 3% 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.