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TSTUSDT rose 142% into Aug 10. The record covers the whole lead-up.

Move window: 2026-08-07 06:00 to 2026-08-10 10:00 UTC. The record for TSTUSDT currently ends 2026-08-13 00:00 UTC.

Counted on 2026-08-14, against a record covering to 2026-08-13 00:00 UTC. These numbers are frozen: this page will always say what it said the day it was written.

This move is in the event archive as a pump 4h on 2026-08-08. Open the archived event

Cascade clustering ≥ 0.54 and Taker buy share · 15m ≥ 0.7

feature.cascade_clustering_index + feature.taker_buy_ratio_15m

Read at 1 hour before the move.

Minutes like this are common here: 227 of the 43,201 minutes searched (0.5%), about 7.3 a day. What followed leaned up: 123 of the 223 matches with a complete 30 minutes forward rose (55%).

Of the 227 fires, 222 came before the move began and 2 happened while it was already under way. A fire during the move sees it; it does not telegraph it.

About 7.3 a day, on 23 of 31 days: spread through the record rather than one event.

q#b8b659dc @ dataset 1a5d8642

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Best supported: Cascade clustering ≥ 0.54 and Taker buy share · 15m ≥ 0.7, the combination with the most fires before the move began.

Opens this exact search in the research tool. Nothing runs until you confirm it there, and arming it as an alert sends a message when it next becomes true.

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Picked in hindsight: the counts include every other time these readings appeared, not just this move.

What the minutes before it looked like

Where these readings were taken

Hourly candles. The marked lines are the minutes the readings came from: 1 minute, 15 minutes, 1 hour, 4 hours and 24 hours before the move began. Every one of them sits before the move, never inside it.

A reading stands out when it sits outside the range it usually holds. The rules are fixed: the same ones the moment reader on the research page uses.

At 1 minute before the move, 3 of the 39 readings stood out. 2026-08-07 05:59 UTC

READING	BEFORE THE MOVE	SEARCHES FOR
Book imbalance · top levels feature.book_imbalance	-0.8509	≤ -0.85
Cascade clustering feature.cascade_clustering_index	0.5407	≥ 0.54
Taker buy share · 15m feature.taker_buy_ratio_15m	0.8414	≥ 0.84

At 15 minutes before the move, 4 of the 39 readings stood out. 2026-08-07 05:45 UTC

READING	BEFORE THE MOVE	SEARCHES FOR
Book imbalance · top levels feature.book_imbalance	-0.5384	≤ -0.53
Book imbalance percentile feature.book_imbalance_pctrank	0.9364	≥ 0.93
Cascade clustering feature.cascade_clustering_index	0.5407	≥ 0.54
Taker buy share · 15m feature.taker_buy_ratio_15m	0.8167	≥ 0.81

At 1 hour before the move, 2 of the 39 readings stood out. 2026-08-07 05:00 UTC

READING	BEFORE THE MOVE	SEARCHES FOR
Cascade clustering feature.cascade_clustering_index	0.5407	≥ 0.54
Taker buy share · 15m feature.taker_buy_ratio_15m	0.7096	≥ 0.7

At 4 hours before the move, 6 of the 39 readings stood out. 2026-08-07 02:00 UTC

READING	BEFORE THE MOVE	SEARCHES FOR
Book imbalance percentile feature.book_imbalance_pctrank	0.07426	≤ 0.075
Compression · 15m feature.candle_compression_15m	2.079	≥ 2
Containment · 15m feature.candle_containment_15m	outside	outside
Upper wick · 15m feature.candle_upper_wick_15m	0.7727	≥ 0.77
Cascade clustering feature.cascade_clustering_index	0.5408	≥ 0.54
OI velocity percentile feature.oi_velocity_pctrank	0.9777	≥ 0.97

At 24 hours before the move, 8 of the 39 readings stood out. 2026-08-06 06:00 UTC

READING	BEFORE THE MOVE	SEARCHES FOR
Book imbalance · top levels feature.book_imbalance	0.6315	≥ 0.63
Book imbalance percentile feature.book_imbalance_pctrank	0.089	≤ 0.089
Lower wick · 15m feature.candle_lower_wick_15m	0.8462	≥ 0.84
Sweep + reclaim · 15m feature.candle_sweep_reclaim_15m	bearish	bearish
Cascade clustering feature.cascade_clustering_index	0.5407	≥ 0.54
Realized vol percentile feature.realized_vol_pctrank	0.9954	≥ 0.99
Return · 1h feature.ret_1h	0.03128	≥ 0.031
VWAP distance · day feature.vwap_dist	0.03223	≥ 0.032

Also counted

This is not a similarity search. Each count matches the exact readings above and nothing else.

Book imbalance · top levels ≤ -0.85 and Cascade clustering ≥ 0.54 and Taker buy share · 15m ≥ 0.84

feature.book_imbalance + feature.cascade_clustering_index + feature.taker_buy_ratio_15m

Read at 1 minute before the move.

Minutes like this appeared only 15 times in the 43,201 minutes searched. What followed leaned up: 9 of the 13 matches with a complete 30 minutes forward rose (69%).

Of the 15 fires, 15 came before the move began; none were during it.

About 0.5 a day, on 8 of 31 days: spread through the record rather than one event.

q#c47c1f3a @ dataset 1a5d8642

Book imbalance · top levels ≤ -0.53 and Book imbalance percentile ≥ 0.93 and Cascade clustering ≥ 0.54

feature.book_imbalance + feature.book_imbalance_pctrank + feature.cascade_clustering_index

Read at 15 minutes before the move.

Minutes like this are common here: 272 of the 43,201 minutes searched (0.6%), about 8.8 a day. What followed was close to a coin flip: 138 rose and 127 fell over the next 30 minutes (265 of the 272 matches have a complete 30 minutes forward).

Of the 272 fires, 238 came before the move began and 23 happened while it was already under way. A fire during the move sees it; it does not telegraph it.

About 8.8 a day, on 27 of 31 days: spread through the record rather than one event.

q#09ac3c1f @ dataset 1a5d8642

Fires often arrive as clusters of consecutive minutes, and forward windows overlap. A cluster is one episode, not many independent trials.

If these counts read weaker than the move suggested, that is the tool working: the lead-up of a picked move always looks special until it is counted everywhere else.

Every night the record counts what fired and what usually followed: the daily brief.