Bitcoin long/short ratio history: daily taker buy volume divided by taker sell volume across all tracked futures exchanges, with the crowded-long threshold that has marked local tops. Daily since 2019.
Left axis: BTC price (log). Right axis: daily taker buy volume / taker sell volume across all tracked exchanges.
long/short = taker buy volume / taker sell volume, summed over the day across exchanges
Every futures trade has an aggressor. Coinfuty adds up taker buy and taker sell volume across the exchanges it tracks for each UTC day; the ratio above 1 means aggressive buying dominated, below 1 aggressive selling. The daily series is the same data as the 24-hour ratio shown on the long/short page, closed at day end.
Ratios above 1.3 mean buyers are chasing — a crowded long that has coincided with local tops, especially when funding is also elevated. Extremely low readings during a sell-off often mark exhaustion. The ratio is noisy day to day; the value is in extremes and in divergence from price.
1.058 as of Sep 4, 2026: taker buy volume was higher than taker sell volume.
There is no "good" level. Values near 1 mean balanced aggression; readings above 1.3 mean buyers are chasing and have coincided with local tops, while readings well below 1 during a sell-off often mark exhaustion.
Taker buy volume divided by taker sell volume, summed across all tracked futures exchanges for each UTC day. It measures who is hitting the market aggressively, not the size of open positions.
That page shows rolling 1h–24h windows updated every minute; this chart closes the same data at the end of each UTC day so it can be plotted over years.
Coinfuty computes every series on this page from daily BTC close prices and public constants — the Bitcoin halving schedule, block subsidy and published regression coefficients. Values refresh nightly (00:20 UTC) and the current day is patched hourly. These are historical, backward-looking indicators; nothing here is investment advice.