Crypto rally monitor

Why short windows matter

Every site shows the 24-hour change, and it is of little use: by the time a coin reads plus forty percent on the day, the move is usually over. The point of this page is different — to catch the ramp in its first minutes, while it is still going.

So the main windows here are short: fifteen and thirty seconds, one minute, five minutes, a quarter hour, half an hour and an hour. Every other window is shown next to the one you pick, which tells you what is actually happening: up three percent in a minute and five in fifteen means the ramp continues; down on the minute but up on the quarter hour means it has already turned.

Why there is no one-second window

Because it would be fiction. Prices arrive from every venue we cover at least every 30 seconds: polling more often would run into their limits. So the shortest honest window is fifteen seconds, which holds three samples. A one-second change would be built from two adjacent readings and would show the last price jittering in the book, not the market moving.

The same applies at the other end. An hourly change cannot be shown five minutes after the scanner starts — the hour has not happened yet. Those windows stay disabled until they fill, rather than being padded with whatever is at hand.

Volume decides almost everything

This is the page's main filter, and without it the list would be useless. On a pair turning over a thousand dollars a day, one order moves the price ten percent — formally a record gain, in substance nothing. Such pairs do not merely add noise, they push real moves off the top rows.

So the volume threshold is a field rather than a hidden constant: half a million dollars by default, but worth adjusting. At ten million only large coins remain and a one-percent move is meaningful; at a hundred thousand small coins appear with moves of tens of percent — some real, some just an empty book.

What the «other windows» column shows

The same pair's change across every other interval at once. This is the most useful part of the table: one number on its own means little, while eight numbers side by side form a picture. Steady gains across all windows is a trend. Large gains in the short windows and nothing in the long ones means the move just started. Gains in the long windows and losses in the short ones means it is over.