Learn hubBlogBreak down the liquidity heatmap: where exactly the large limit levels sit and what's behind them, where to turn it on and what each setting on the card changes.
Order book history over the candles. Time on the horizontal axis, price on the vertical.
What dark means. Depends on the brightness scale, a setting below.
Exchanges: Binance, Coinbase, Deribit. There is no heatmap on Hyperliquid: it provides only 20 order book levels.
See exactly where the largest limit levels stand and what is behind them. B&A and RATIO say “3% bids grew”. The heatmap shows at which price they stand: at one or at many. And a second thing no other indicator has. Almost all of them show where something is: money, trades, liquidations. The heatmap on the logarithmic scale also shows where nothing is — prices without a single wall and without volume. Densities give points, emptiness gives the distance between them.
For example.
Right rail → Settings (the first button) → the “Liquidity Heatmap” section. The toggle on the right turns the layer on, the arrow on the left opens its settings. The “?” button in the panel header shows an explanation for every setting. The “Cloud” mode keeps the settings in the account for all tabs, “Tab” — only in this tab. Settings are remembered separately for each coin.
| Field | Options | Default | What it changes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interval | 1m · 5m · 15m · 30m 1h · 4h · 1d | 5m | Column step in time. Set it close to the chart timeframe — the columns will line up with the candles. |
| Level merging | ×1 … ×10 | ×1 | Merges adjacent price steps. 1 — the price step: about 0.03% of the coin’s price, $50 on BTC right now. 5 — five times wider, 10 — ten times. Heatmap ripples with thin bands — increase it. |
| Brightness scale | Linear Logarithmic | Linear | How to turn volume into brightness. Linear — only walls light up, the rest is dark: you see where the largest orders stand. Logarithmic — the whole book is visible, walls stand out less: you see where there are no orders at all. - Want to look for walls — Linear. - Want to see gaps and small levels — Logarithmic. |
| Thin lines | on off | off | Each level is drawn as a 1-pixel line in the middle of its price step, not as a band across the whole step. Same precision, cleaner picture. Bands merge together — turn it on. |
| Intensity filter | two sliders | 0 … 100% | Left — below what volume not to show. Right — from what volume brightness is at max. Small orders hide large ones — raise the left one. |
| Level activity | on off | on | Circles where volume was sharply added or pulled over the period. Green — bids, red — asks. Label — with sign and percentage. |
| Comparison period | Snapshot 15 minutes 1 hour 4 hours | 1 hour | What to compare a level's volume against to decide it changed sharply. - Want to catch quick additions and pulls — Snapshot or 15 minutes. - Want only large changes over hours — 1 hour or 4 hours. |
| Marks on screen (activity) | 8 16 24 | 8 | How many circles to show. Labels — on the eight largest. |
| Fills and pulls | on off | on | A label at a level when price reaches it: how much was filled, how much pulled, how much added. Based on trades at that price, not on price movement. - Want to see whether a level is held or pulled as price approaches — turn it on. |
| Marks on screen (fills) | 8 16 24 | 8 | How many fill and pull labels to show. |
| Largest levels | on off | off | Top 5 levels within ±10% of price, as bands. The 🧲 icon — the level matches a liquidation map cluster. |
| Hover table | on off | on | Show the boundaries and volume of the band under the cursor. |
| Level significance threshold | 0 … 100% | 55% | How large a level has to be to get a volume label to the right of the chart. Doesn't go below the left slider of the intensity filter. Too many labels — raise it. |
| Colors | 3 fields | — | “From weak to strong” — the three points of the heatmap scale. “Levels” — the “Largest levels” bands. “Magnets” — levels that coincide with a liquidation map cluster. |
Not on the heatmap. An alert on order book volume is set with the metrics COIN B&A and COIN B&A DIFF. An alert on a single large order is a limit alert, see the “Alerts” block.
The heatmap is the order book over time. Price vertically, time horizontally, the colour of a cell — how much money stood at that price. B&A gives the sum over a band, the heatmap gives the prices that sum stands at: one bright band and darkness behind it, or a ladder of levels. On the linear scale, the default, only walls light up and dark means “far weaker than the wall”; on the logarithmic one the whole book and the gaps are visible — prices with no orders at all. Enabled in the right rail → Settings → Coin. The “Level activity” circles mark where volume was sharply added or pulled. Available on Binance, Coinbase and Deribit.
Linear scale. 3% bids grew, on the heatmap there is one bright band under the price and darkness below it. That means…
Correct answer: Almost all of the increase stands at one price, the other levels below it are far weaker than this wall
Linear scale. A dark area between two bright bands is…
Correct answer: Levels far weaker than these two walls; whether there are any orders there at all, the logarithmic scale will show