Longest trade silence
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What is Longest trade silence?
Longest trade silence is a market-data metric BlackForge measures for every listed pair on nine spot exchanges, once per closed five-minute window. The longest gap between trades during the window. It reports what the order book or trade tape showed, not what price will do next.
The facts
| Unit | ms |
|---|---|
| Family | Trade timing |
| Key | tradeSilenceMaxTime |
| Quote-relative | No |
| Nullable | No |
| Plottable | Yes |
| Available from | Max plan |
Live across all nine venues
Longest trade silence 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 | Longest trade silence |
|---|---|---|
| Binance | BTCUSDT | 3,654 |
| Bitget | BTCUSDT | 7,156 |
| Bybit | BTCUSDT | 6,205 |
| Coinbase | BTC-USDT | 0 |
| Gate | BTC_USDT | 9,866 |
| Kraken | BTCUSDT | 93,252 |
| Kucoin | BTC-USDT | 11,695 |
| Mexc | BTCUSDT | 7,148 |
| Okx | BTC-USDT | 7,772 |
Query it
Longest trade silence is one field on the wide row /v1/latest returns for a pair. Set $BF to the API base and read it at .values.tradeSilenceMaxTime:
curl -H "x-api-key: $BLACKFORGE_API_KEY" \
"$BF/v1/latest?exchange=binance&symbol=BTCUSDT"
# read the value at: .values.tradeSilenceMaxTimeRelated
When trades landed within the window and how they were spaced.
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What is Longest trade silence?
Longest trade silence is a market-data metric BlackForge measures for every listed pair on nine spot exchanges, once per closed five-minute window. The longest gap between trades during the window. It reports what the order book or trade tape showed, not what price will do next.
How is Longest trade silence measured?
BlackForge computes Longest trade silence from each venue’s own order book and trades for every listed pair, once per closed five-minute window, and records it as ms. The value is stored exactly as observed.
Which plan includes Longest trade silence?
Longest trade silence is available from the Max plan upward, and on pay-per-call over x402. See pricing for the full plan ladder.
Does Longest trade silence predict where price will go?
No. Longest trade silence 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.