Largest sell trade
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What is Largest sell trade?
Largest sell trade is a market-data metric BlackForge measures for every listed pair on nine spot exchanges, once per closed five-minute window. Value of the single largest taker-sell trade in the window. It reports what the order book or trade tape showed, not what price will do next.
The facts
| Unit | quote |
|---|---|
| Family | Trade flow |
| Key | sellTradeMax |
| Quote-relative | Yes |
| Nullable | No |
| Plottable | Yes |
| Available from | Free plan |
Live across all nine venues
Largest sell trade 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 | Largest sell trade |
|---|---|---|
| Binance | BTCUSDT | 127,599 |
| Bitget | BTCUSDT | 10,000 |
| Bybit | BTCUSDT | 67,315 |
| Coinbase | BTC-USDT | 40.96 |
| Gate | BTC_USDT | 29,357 |
| Kraken | BTCUSDT | 2,948 |
| Kucoin | BTC-USDT | 10,005 |
| Mexc | BTCUSDT | 105,832 |
| Okx | BTC-USDT | 77,981 |
Query it
Largest sell trade is one field on the wide row /v1/latest returns for a pair. Set $BF to the API base and read it at .values.sellTradeMax:
curl -H "x-api-key: $BLACKFORGE_API_KEY" \
"$BF/v1/latest?exchange=binance&symbol=BTCUSDT"
# read the value at: .values.sellTradeMaxRelated
What actually traded: taker buy versus sell volume, counts, average sizes and prices.
Defined in the glossary: Taker buy and sell volume.
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What is Largest sell trade?
Largest sell trade is a market-data metric BlackForge measures for every listed pair on nine spot exchanges, once per closed five-minute window. Value of the single largest taker-sell trade in the window. It reports what the order book or trade tape showed, not what price will do next.
How is Largest sell trade measured?
BlackForge computes Largest sell trade 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 Largest sell trade?
Largest sell trade is available from the Free plan upward, and on pay-per-call over x402. See pricing for the full plan ladder.
Does Largest sell trade predict where price will go?
No. Largest sell trade 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.