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Taker-buy share of recent flow

Also shown as Taker buy share (15m)

The share of traded notional from buyer-initiated trades over the preceding 15 minutes. A value of 0.52 means 52% was aggressive buying.

Interactive illustration · not market data

Which side initiated the trades?

Reading0.6060 / 100 = 0.60
Fixed $100k total over 15 minutes. Every trade has both a buyer and a seller.
Live monitoring
Binance Futures only; depends on the full setup
Observed
measured over the trailing 15 minutes
Unit
Ratio
Valid range
0 to 1
How to read it, with examples

How to read it

Above 0.5 means more buyer-initiated than seller-initiated notional; below 0.5 means the reverse.

Describe the balance of executed buying and selling alongside price and order-book readings.

What it does not prove

This measures executed flow, not the number of buyers or whether the next price move will be up.

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Technical details

Registry definition

Taker-buy share of traded notional over the trailing 15 minutes.

Field ID

feature.taker_buy_ratio_15m

Valid query operators

at least, at most, between

Window operators: lowest, highest, average, latest or change in, over a trailing window.

Editable query preset

Starting point only. Review and edit before running.

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  "schema_version": "research_query.v2",
  "normalization_version": "archive_normalization.v1",
  "feature_version": "feature_defs.v1",
  "target": "record_occurrences",
  "where": {
    "all": [
      [
        "feature.taker_buy_ratio_15m",
        "gte",
        0.65
      ],
      [
        "times.anchor_time",
        "gte",
        "2025-07-15T00:00:00.000Z"
      ]
    ]
  },
  "sort": [
    "times.anchor_time",
    "desc"
  ],
  "page": {
    "limit": 5,
    "cursor": null
  }
}

The search reports how often the record held this condition and what followed. It does not decide whether an idea works.

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