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Crypto Liquidity Map
A plain order book only ever describes the present. The wall that stopped a move is already eaten and gone by the time anyone looks at the reversal — so a map of now shows nothing at the one place something happened. Arxion's liquidity map keeps that history: where the big orders stood, what price actually traded through, and what was cancelled without a single trade.
What a liquidity map is
A liquidity map draws the resting order-book size directly onto the chart. Each horizontal band is a price holding large limit orders — a wall price can bounce off or break through.
Every wall's size is shown in dollars (size × price), so the scale is instantly clear and comparable across coins. "$3.9M at 65,600" reads at a glance, where a raw token count does not.
The core distinction: eaten vs pulled
Size can leave a level in two opposite ways that look identical in a plain book. Either it was traded — real orders ate the wall. Or the order was simply cancelled — the owner walked away before price arrived, and nobody bought anything.
That is not a cosmetic difference; it is the opposite signal. Support that was eaten is real demand. Support that was pulled is often a spoof. The map tells them apart from the trade tape and colours them differently: colour means traded, grey means pulled in silence.
- Broken — price was pushed through and the size was bought
- Pulled — the order was cancelled, no trades (often a spoof)
- Defended — the level was broken, yet fresh size returned to the same price
- Attacked — trades are printing on it right now and it is draining
- Standing — size is resting and price has not reached it yet
Candle pressure into a wall
Knowing a wall is ahead is not enough — what matters is how hard the current candle is pushing into it. The map shows the directional aggression walking toward a level and how many times bigger it is than the wall itself, as a measure of pressure, not a promise of a break.
It stays honest: a candle's volume is all trade in the period, not only what reaches the level ahead. So it says how hard the market is pushing, never what will happen when it arrives.
Liquidity profile: the hot zones
A separate layer shows which prices have held liquidity over the last hours — a horizontal profile hugging the axis. The longer and brighter the bar, the more size has rested there. These are the zones the market keeps returning to, even when nothing is standing there this exact second.
How it works
The map is built on the live order book streamed over WebSocket and on the tape of real trades over the same window. Comparing consecutive book snapshots tells you a wall shrank; the tape over the same window tells you whether it was eaten or pulled. The whole value lives at the seam of those two sources.
- Live order book over WebSocket — no polling lag
- Trade tape separates absorption from cancellation
- Each level's high-water mark, so you see it being ground down
- Dollar-notional sizes, comparable across assets
Who it is for
- Scalpers — see which wall price is actually fighting
- Swing traders — tell real support from a spoof
- Risk-first traders — place a stop behind a level that is held, not pulled
- Breakout traders — weigh candle pressure against the density ahead
Fitting it into a workflow
- Context: where the biggest walls sit above and below
- State: is the level standing, attacked, broken, pulled or defended
- Pressure: how hard the current candle drives into the nearest wall
- Zones: the profile points to prices the market returns to
- Decision: entry, stop behind a held level, invalidation point
Stop guessing from candles. See where the orders actually are.
The liquidity map is built into the Arxion terminal — free account.
Try ArxionFAQ
What is a crypto liquidity map?
It visualises large resting orders in the exchange order book on top of the chart: where the walls stand, what price traded through, what was pulled without trades, plus a profile of the zones the market returns to.
What is the difference between eaten and pulled?
Eaten means the wall was traded through by real orders (genuine demand or supply). Pulled means the order was simply cancelled, with no trades (often a spoof). A plain book shows them identically; the map separates them using the trade tape.
Does a liquidity map predict price?
No. It shows where orders sit, what is happening to them, and how hard the current candle is pushing. It is market structure and a pressure gauge, not a signal or a promise of any outcome.
Why are sizes shown in dollars, not tokens?
Dollar notional (size × price) reads instantly and is comparable across coins. "10 million ENA" says nothing about scale; "$900K" does.
Which exchanges and pairs are supported?
The map is built on Binance order-book and trade data across spot and futures pairs. The tool lives inside the Arxion trading terminal.