Order Book Limits & Liquidity Walls for BTC and ETH
Limit orders are buy/sell orders at a set price; clusters of them in the order book form liquidity "walls" that act as support and resistance.
What are limit orders and the order book
A limit order is an order to buy or sell an asset at a specific price or better. All resting limit orders form the exchange order book: bids below the market and asks above it.
Order book depth shows how much liquidity rests at each price level. Large clusters of limit orders are "walls": they are hard to break through, so they often act as short-term support and resistance for BTC and ETH.
How to read limit-order walls
A large bid wall below price is potential support: the market must absorb heavy volume to pass it. A large ask wall above price is resistance. The appearance and removal of such walls often precedes a move: a wall melting without fills hints at spoofing, while one absorbed by volume signals a likely breakout.
A depth heatmap visualizes limit orders over time, so large walls are visible hours before price reaches them. In Crypto Metrics Pro the order book is built from Binance Spot, Binance Futures and Coinbase for BTC, ETH, SOL and XRP.
FAQ
They are limit orders — buy/sell orders at a set price. Clusters of them form liquidity walls that act as support and resistance.
A wall is a large cluster of limit orders at one level. A bid wall below price acts as support; an ask wall above price as resistance.
A depth heatmap across Binance and Coinbase is available in the Order Book module on Crypto Metrics Pro.
See Order Book Limits & Liquidity Walls live for BTC and ETH in the Order Book module.
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