Mid price
—Best bid / ask midpoint
Price tells you where. Liquidity and flow show you what is happening.
Best bid / ask midpoint
Waiting for the order book
Loaded value within ±50 bps
Share of loaded near-price value
Collecting executed trades
Closed-candle log returns
Mid is (best bid + best ask) ÷ 2. Spread in basis points is 10,000 × spread ÷ mid. One basis point is 0.01%. Depth sums price × base amount within ±50 bps. Bid share uses that same loaded quote-value sample.
Bitfinex P0 supplies up to 100 price levels per side. If the sample does not reach the band edge, the depth value is a lower bound. Checksum verification covers the top 25 levels on each side—not the entire market.
Buy/sell direction describes the taker. Flow uses unique trade IDs received during the current uninterrupted observation period. A count-limited starting snapshot is not treated as complete time history. Reconnection restarts that period.
Realized movement is 100 × √Σ log(closeᵢ / closeᵢ₋₁)², from up to 30 consecutive closed-candle returns at the selected candle interval. It is not annualized; fewer than five returns show no estimate.
The heatmap is a foreground, session-only sample every five seconds. It is not a seven-day history. Depth outside received price coverage, background-tab intervals and disconnected periods remain unknown.
Order-size estimates consume displayed prices in order. “Beyond best quote” excludes the initial spread; the detailed result also reports impact against midpoint. Insufficient loaded liquidity never produces a complete-fill estimate.