Bitcoin Taker Buy/Sell Ratio Spikes On Major Exchanges — Time To Buy?
The price of Bitcoin No serious motivation So far in 2025, except for a brief over $108,000 level in mid-January. Instead, there have been some major corrections in the past few weeks.
The recent pullback has tilted BTC prices toward $92,000 after U.S. President Donald Trump introduced new trade tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China earlier this week. Although the Bitcoin price quickly recovered over $100,000, it has been working hard to maintain any bullish momentum since then – trading is around $96,500 now.
HTX and BITMEX users load their bitcoin bags – what we know
Ali Martinez, a well-known crypto analyst, enters X platform share Certain centralized exchanges have witnessed an increase in buying activity. This chain observation is based on a change in the “Taker Buy and Taker sell ratio”, which measures the sales volume (bitcoin in this case) of Taker Buy selling a specific asset.
For clarity, when the Taker buy-to-sell ratio is worth more than one, Taker buys more than Taker sells. Usually, this situation is considered bullish because it indicates that investors are willing to pay higher prices for a particular cryptocurrency (Bitcoin).
Instead, Taker buy-sell ratios are inadequate, which indicates that more sellers are willing to distribute their assets at a lower price. This phenomenon means sellers are surpassing buyers, which suggests a bearish investor sentiment in a specific crypto market.
According to Martinez’s post on X, Bitcoin Taker buying and selling ratio On the HTX and BITMEX exchanges, Saturday, February 8 experienced a significant increase. Encrypted data shows that the metric rose to around 5.7 on the Bitmex platform in the middle of the day.
Similarly, the buying and selling ratio of Bitcoin withdrawers rose to as high as 16 on Saturday’s HTX exchange before falling to 0.4. Nevertheless, the data on this chain suggests a surge in purchasing activity on centralized trading platforms.
Fresh purchases When it comes to crypto exchanges, the price of Bitcoin may be bullish, which lacks the bite you need to maintain any upward movement. As of this writing, the Prime Minister’s cryptocurrency is worth approximately $96,700, reflecting that there has been no significant change in price changes over the past 24 hours.
Is it time to buy BTC?
In another post on X, Martinez suggestion It may be the time for investors to get involved in the BTC market. The reason behind this suggestion is based on the current feelings of cryptocurrency people.
Recent on-chain data suggest that crowd sentiment towards Bitcoin is currently negative. However, it is well known that the past few times moved prices in the opposite direction of the crowd.
