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CUM TRADES: cumulative trade delta

6 min · DYOR Education
FreeCOIN · Trades
Goal

Break down CUM TRADES — the accumulated trade delta from a set moment.

CUM TRADES on BTC/USDT: accumulated difference of buys and sells. By default the range is the last 4 hours, so the line sits at the right edge
CUM TRADES on BTC/USDT: accumulated difference of buys and sells. By default the range is the last 4 hours, so the line sits at the right edge
What it shows

Accumulated (cumulative) trade delta. Buys minus sells add up bar by bar from Start Time to End Time.

  • The line rises — since the start of the range there were more buys. Falls — more sells.
  • The meaning of the line depends entirely on the start point. Move it and the slope changes.
delta per barrunning totalStart Time — count from here
Move Start Time and the accumulated line starts over from zero.
What it's for

Count the balance of buys and sells from a chosen moment: start of the day, news, session open.

For example.

  • “Start Time” — the start of the day. By the evening the line is at +40 million: over the day the market bought $40 million more than it sold.
  • If the price didn't rise, the buys met equal sells in the order book — the asks kept refilling.
Where to find it
Indicators›COIN›Trades›CUM TRADES

Faster: right-click the chart at the point you need → the “CUM TRADES from …”item. Accumulation starts from the clicked moment and continues to now.

Right-click on the chart: the menu has “CUM TRADES from …” and “CUM S. TRADES Q. from …” with the date of the clicked point
Right-click on the chart: the menu has “CUM TRADES from …” and “CUM S. TRADES Q. from …” with the date of the clicked point
Result: CUM TRADES from September 12 08:00 — accumulation started at the clicked point
Result: CUM TRADES from September 12 08:00 — accumulation started at the clicked point

Settings
FieldOptionsDefaultWhat it changes
Start Timedate and time4 hours agoFrom what moment to accumulate.
Right-clicking the chart sets it to the clicked point.
- Want the balance since the start of the day — set midnight.
Since a news event — its time.
End Timedate and timenowUp to what moment to accumulate.
MarketSPOT
Futures		SPOTWhose trades to count: the spot or the futures market.
SPOT or FUTURES in the pane legend.
- Want trades from people buying the coin itself — SPOT.
- Want trades with leverage — FUTURES.
On Coinbase, Hyperliquid and Deribit the switch does nothing: Coinbase is spot only, Hyperliquid and Deribit are futures only, the value is set by the exchange itself.
BTC pairsALL
USDT only		ALLWorks only on Binance and only on BTC.
ALL or USDT ONLY in the legend.
ALL — the sum of three pairs: BTCUSDT + BTCUSDC + BTCFDUSD.
USDT only — only the BTCUSDT pair.
For other Binance coins the data is always for the USDT pair; the parameter changes nothing.
Does nothing on Coinbase and Hyperliquid: Bitcoin has one pair there.
On Deribit too: the two BTC contracts are not added together.
- Want all of Binance's Bitcoin — ALL.
- Want to compare with a source that counts only BTCUSDT — USDT ONLY.
ExchangeChart
Binance
Coinbase
Hyperliquid
Deribit		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 and Deribit — perpetual futures only, USDC pairs.
The list holds only exchanges where the coin trades.
Without a subscription there is no field.
- Want to compare one coin across exchanges — add the indicator several times and pick a different exchange in each.
In alerts

This indicator is not in the alert metric list.

Try it yourself
  1. Turn on CUM TRADES. Right-click the chart → “CUM TRADES from …” at the start of the latest rally.
  2. Look at the slope of the line from that point.
What you should get. Accumulation is counted from the chosen bar. The line rises — there have been more buys since then.
Takeaway

CUM TRADES adds up buys minus sells bar by bar, starting from “Start Time”. The line rises — more was bought since the start of the stretch. It falls — more was sold. The shape of the line depends entirely on the starting point, so “Start Time” is the main setting.

Quick check

What does “Start Time” set in CUM TRADES?

Show answer

Correct answer: The moment accumulation starts from

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