Sell sweeps
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What is Sell sweeps?
Sell 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 sell took out more than one price level at once: sell prints sharing one millisecond across at least two prices.
The facts
| Unit | count |
|---|---|
| Family | Trade timing |
| Key | sellSweepCount |
| Quote-relative | No |
| Nullable | Yes |
| Plottable | Yes |
| Available from | Max plan |
Live across every venue
Sell 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 | Sell sweeps |
|---|---|---|
| Binance | BTCUSDT | 12 |
| Bitget | BTCUSDT | 4 |
| Bybit | BTCUSDT | 17 |
| Coinbase | BTC-USDT | 0 |
| Gate | BTC_USDT | 4 |
| Kraken | BTCUSDT | 0 |
| Kucoin | BTC-USDT | 81 |
| Mexc | BTCUSDT | 3 |
| Okx | BTC-USDT | 9 |
Query it
Sell 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.sellSweepCount:
curl -H "x-api-key: $BLACKFORGE_API_KEY" \
"$BF/v1/latest?exchange=binance&symbol=BTCUSDT"
# read the value at: .values.sellSweepCountRelated
When trades landed within the window and how they were spaced.
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What is Sell sweeps?
Sell 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 sell took out more than one price level at once: sell prints sharing one millisecond across at least two prices.
How is Sell sweeps measured?
BlackForge computes Sell 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 Sell sweeps?
Sell sweeps is available from the Max plan upward, and on pay-per-call over x402. See pricing for the full plan ladder.
Does Sell sweeps predict where price will go?
No. Sell 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.