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COIN B&A

6 min · DYOR Education
FreeCOIN · Order book
Goal

Learn COIN B&A: how much money sits in bids and asks at each depth and how to turn on the other depths.

COIN B&A on BTC/USDT, 15m. Green line is bids, red is asks at 3% depth
COIN B&A on BTC/USDT, 15m. Green line is bids, red is asks at 3% depth
What it shows

How much money sits in the order book to buy and how much to sell.

What it's based on: every minute the platform reads the exchange order book and sums orders per side within each depth.

  • Two lines per depth: bid (buy) and ask (sell).
  • Seven depths: 1.5 · 3 · 5 · 8 · 15 · 30 · 60%.
  • Units: millions of dollars or coins.

How to read it: D3 bid = 90 — buy orders from the price down to −3% hold $90M.

What it's for

See the demand wall and the supply wall in dollars. Which side of the price holds more money, and by how much.

For example.

  • D3 bid = 90, D3 ask = 40.
  • Below the price, within 3%, $90M of orders are waiting. Above the price, $40M.
  • To push the price down 3%, sellers have to “eat” $90M. To push it up 3%, buyers need $40M, half as much.
  • You see all of this at a glance from two lines, without scrolling the order book.
  • A sharp drop in the green line means the wall under the price was pulled. You see it on the same bar.
Where to find it
Indicators›COIN›Order book›COIN B&A
Settings
FieldOptionsDefaultWhat it changes
Market TypeSPOT
FUTURES
SPOTWhich order book to use: Binance spot or futures.
- Want orders from people buying the coin itself — SPOT.
- Want orders from people trading with leverage — FUTURES.
On Coinbase and Hyperliquid the switch has no effect: Coinbase is spot only, Hyperliquid is futures only; the value follows the exchange automatically.
CurrencyMILLIONS
COINS
MILLIONSUnits: millions of dollars or number of coins.
- Want to compare coins with each other — MILLIONS.
- Want to see volume in the coin itself, regardless of its price — COINS.
BTC PairsALL
USDT ONLY
ALLWorks only on Binance and only for BTC.
ALL — the sum of three pairs: BTCUSDT + BTCUSDC + BTCFDUSD.
USDT ONLY — the BTCUSDT pair only.

For other Binance coins, data is always for the USDT pair; the input changes nothing.
No effect on Coinbase and Hyperliquid: Bitcoin has one pair there — BTC/USD and BTC/USDC.
- Want all of Binance's Bitcoin — ALL.
- Want to compare with a source that counts only BTCUSDT — USDT ONLY.
ExchangeChart
Binance
Coinbase
Hyperliquid
ChartWhich exchange to take data from:
Chart — the same one as the chart.
Binance — spot and futures, USDT pairs.
Coinbase — spot only, USD pairs.
Hyperliquid — perpetual futures only, USDC pairs.

Coinbase and Hyperliquid are available on paid plans (the “Exchanges” screen).
They have candles, trades and order book.
Derivatives, liquidations and loans show “no data” for them.
- Want to compare one coin across exchanges — add the indicator several times and pick a different exchange in each.

By default one depth is visible — 3%. Turn on the other depths in the Style tab: tick the line you need.

In alerts

Metric COIN B&A. Condition fields:

CoinMarket TypeBTC pairsTimeframeDelta PercentageAsk/Bid TypeValue Output Type

“Value Output Type” — Millions, Coins or Raw $ (dollars not divided by a million). “BTC pairs” appears only when the coin is BTC.

TOTAL

TOTAL B&A — the same summed across the whole market. Adds the Total Type field.

Try it yourself
  1. Turn on COIN B&A on BTC/USDT 1h and set Delta 3% in the inputs.
  2. Write down two numbers from the legend: bids and asks.
What you should get. You know how many dollars are waiting within 3% below and above the price, and which side is heavier.
Takeaway

COIN B&A is the money in the order book by side. Each of the seven depths has two lines, bid and ask, in millions of dollars or in coins. The 3% depth is visible by default. Turn on the others with checkboxes in the “Style” tab.

Quick check

The “D3 bid” line shows…

Show answer

Correct answer: The sum of buy orders within 3% below the price

Quick check

D3 bid = 90, D3 ask = 40. To push the price down 3%, sellers have to “eat”…

Show answer

Correct answer: $90M — all bids within 3%

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