COTIUSDT rose 160% into Jul 30. The record covers the whole lead-up.

Move window: 2026-07-27 19:00 to 2026-07-30 02:00 UTC. The record for COTIUSDT currently ends 2026-08-03 00:00 UTC.

Book imbalance · top levels ≥ 0.51 and Sweep + reclaim · 1h bearish and Cascade clustering ≥ 0.55

feature.book_imbalance + feature.candle_sweep_reclaim_1h + feature.cascade_clustering_index

Read at 1 hour before the move.

Minutes like this appeared 32 times in the 43,201 minutes searched (<0.1%). What followed was close to a coin flip: 17 rose and 14 fell over the next 30 minutes (31 of the 32 matches have a complete 30 minutes forward).

Of the 32 fires, 30 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 1 a day, on 18 of 31 days: spread through the record rather than one event.

q#e6a45638 @ dataset b91f2197

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Best supported: Book imbalance · top levels ≥ 0.51 and Sweep + reclaim · 1h bearish and Cascade clustering ≥ 0.55, 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.

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, 5 of the 33 readings stood out. 2026-07-27 18:59 UTC

READING	BEFORE THE MOVE	SEARCHES FOR
Book imbalance · top levels feature.book_imbalance	-0.7257	≤ -0.72
Sweep + reclaim · 15m feature.candle_sweep_reclaim_15m	bearish	bearish
Sweep + reclaim · 1h feature.candle_sweep_reclaim_1h	bearish	bearish
Cascade clustering feature.cascade_clustering_index	0.556	≥ 0.55
VWAP distance · day feature.vwap_dist	0.02755	≥ 0.027

At 15 minutes before the move, 7 of the 33 readings stood out. 2026-07-27 18:45 UTC

READING	BEFORE THE MOVE	SEARCHES FOR
Book imbalance percentile feature.book_imbalance_pctrank	0.9168	≥ 0.91
Sweep + reclaim · 15m feature.candle_sweep_reclaim_15m	bearish	bearish
Sweep + reclaim · 1h feature.candle_sweep_reclaim_1h	bearish	bearish
Cascade clustering feature.cascade_clustering_index	0.5563	≥ 0.55
OI velocity percentile feature.oi_velocity_pctrank	0.9805	≥ 0.98
Return · 1h feature.ret_1h	0.02139	≥ 0.021
VWAP distance · day feature.vwap_dist	0.03859	≥ 0.038

At 1 hour before the move, 3 of the 33 readings stood out. 2026-07-27 18:00 UTC

READING	BEFORE THE MOVE	SEARCHES FOR
Book imbalance · top levels feature.book_imbalance	0.514	≥ 0.51
Sweep + reclaim · 1h feature.candle_sweep_reclaim_1h	bearish	bearish
Cascade clustering feature.cascade_clustering_index	0.5569	≥ 0.55

At 4 hours before the move, 2 of the 33 readings stood out. 2026-07-27 15:00 UTC

READING	BEFORE THE MOVE	SEARCHES FOR
Cascade clustering feature.cascade_clustering_index	0.5585	≥ 0.55
Realized vol percentile feature.realized_vol_pctrank	0.9964	≥ 0.99

At 24 hours before the move, 5 of the 33 readings stood out. 2026-07-26 19:00 UTC

READING	BEFORE THE MOVE	SEARCHES FOR
Book imbalance percentile feature.book_imbalance_pctrank	0.09284	≤ 0.093
Compression · 15m feature.candle_compression_15m	0.3529	≤ 0.36
Upper wick · 15m feature.candle_upper_wick_15m	0.75	≥ 0.74
Cascade clustering feature.cascade_clustering_index	0.5663	≥ 0.56
Taker buy share · 15m feature.taker_buy_ratio_15m	0.6594	≥ 0.65

Also counted

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

Book imbalance · top levels ≤ -0.72 and Sweep + reclaim · 15m bearish and Sweep + reclaim · 1h bearish

feature.book_imbalance + feature.candle_sweep_reclaim_15m + feature.candle_sweep_reclaim_1h

Read at 1 minute before the move.

Minutes like this appeared only 9 times in the 43,201 minutes searched. What followed leaned up: 6 of the 9 matches with a complete 30 minutes forward rose (67%).

Of the 9 fires, 4 came before the move began and 1 happened while it was already under way. A fire during the move sees it; it does not telegraph it.

About 0.3 a day, on 7 of 31 days: spread through the record rather than one event.

q#423ab51d @ dataset b91f2197

Book imbalance percentile ≥ 0.91 and Sweep + reclaim · 15m bearish and OI velocity percentile ≥ 0.98

feature.book_imbalance_pctrank + feature.candle_sweep_reclaim_15m + feature.oi_velocity_pctrank

Read at 15 minutes before the move.

Minutes like this appeared only 10 times in the 43,182 minutes searched. What followed leaned down: 6 of the 10 matches with a complete 30 minutes forward fell (60%).

Of the 10 fires, 6 came before the move began and 1 happened while it was already under way. A fire during the move sees it; it does not telegraph it.

About 0.3 a day, on 9 of 31 days: spread through the record rather than one event.

q#cd84c674 @ dataset b91f2197

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.