What the section holds
The coin reviews section puts the market on one page: 24-hour price changes as tiles, the coins rising and falling hardest, a list of all 225 coins, a comparison of 25 venues in numbers and exchange reviews. Every coin in the list has its own page with its price history.
A coin page: what happened
- Price chart — on monthly closes, over 1, 3 or 5 years or all the time.
- By year — open, close, change, high, low and turnover. A year’s “open” is the previous December’s close.
- Monthly returns — each cell is one month of one year, with the average and the number of observations below.
- Last 12 months — close, change, high, low and turnover.
Below come the conclusions from these numbers: where the price sits between bottom and peak, the deepest drawdown, the best and worst years and months, and whether there is seasonality. A drawdown runs from close to close, while highs and lows are intra-month, from monthly candles. The number of observations sits next to each percentage on purpose: over a few years a pattern cannot be told from chance.
A coin page: what is happening now
The board at the top shows the average price across venues, the change against last month’s close, the day’s turnover and the number of exchanges with the coin, and below it the cheapest of them. The “where it trades” block lists the venues from cheapest to dearest: each with its price and its gap to the cheapest in percent, the cheapest and the dearest marked. The board refreshes once a minute.
The block on where the coin can be moved sums up the networks: which have withdrawal and deposit open, and on which venues. A transfer works only when one venue has withdrawal open, the other deposit, and both run the same network. The contract addresses per network are there too: check them before a transfer, as one ticker can be different tokens on different venues.
Coin arbitrage pages
Nine coins, BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE, TRX, USDC, USDT and BNB, have their own pages in the CEX arbitrage section, such as the bitcoin page. They answer another question: where the coin is cheaper and dearer right now.
- Spread on the board is between the cheapest buy and the dearest sell, with a fixed 0.1% fee per side. That is not your fee: check yours on the exchange.
- The table gives each venue’s buy and sell price, the gap to the best price, turnover and the coin’s withdrawal: whether it is open and the lowest stated fee among open networks.
- For USDT the price comes from the USDC/USDT markets, turned over.
What is not here
Forecasts. The pages show what has already happened and say nothing about where the price goes. The withdrawal fee is not in the arbitrage page’s spread, and neither is slippage: the spread uses the best prices.
How to use it
- Use the history to judge the range: from low to high and the depth of the drawdown you would have had to sit through.
- Before buying, look at where it trades: the difference between venues is visible at once.
- Before a transfer, check the network and the contract address.
- For a large amount, check the order book: the best price is not the whole size.
Frequently asked
Where do the prices come from? Live prices on the board and in the venue list come from our collectors’ data from the exchanges. The history comes from monthly candles.
Why does the price in the text differ from the board? The number in the text is as of the page’s last update. The board shows the live average across exchanges and refreshes itself.
Can I decide whether to buy a coin from this page? No. Past returns do not carry over into the future.
Why is the arbitrage page’s spread wider than what I got? It assumes a fixed 0.1% fee per side and leaves out withdrawal and slippage.