Field first, then inspect
The common mistake is staring at one chart and missing the market that is actually moving. Scanning inverts it: survey the whole venue at a glance, let the unusual markets surface themselves, then zoom in on the few that earn your attention. You spend your focus where something is happening instead of guessing in advance.
- 1 Pick a timeframe that matches your horizon — 1m for intraday, higher for swing.
- 2 Color the whole field by one signal — order-book imbalance or aggressive flow — so pressure is visible everywhere at once.
- 3 Look for clusters and outliers, not single cells: pressure that persists across time or spreads across symbols.
- 4 Open the standouts in the inspector and check how price reacted to the pressure.
- 5 Confirm with a second signal and with price before you act — never trade the color alone.
What to scan for
The events worth surfacing across a crypto venue:
- Order-book imbalance clusters that persist rather than flicker.
- Aggressive sweeps and the absorption that stops them.
- CVD divergence — flow and price disagreeing.
- Funding extremes that flag crowded positioning.
- Open-interest surges that flag new money committing.
The strongest scans flag markets behaving unusually relative to their own recent baseline — a quiet mid-cap suddenly lit up matters more than the majors being their usual selves. Event detection beats a static leaderboard of the largest coins.
A live heatmap across 300+ Hyperliquid markets plus composable signals is exactly this workflow as a product: scan the field, rank what is unusual, inspect the standouts. Scanning, built in.
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FAQ
What is a crypto market scanner?
A crypto market scanner watches many markets at once and flags the ones meeting a condition — unusual flow, order-book pressure, funding or open-interest shifts — so you do not have to watch every chart individually.
How do you find unusual crypto markets?
Compare each market to its own recent baseline and surface the outliers — extremes in imbalance, flow, funding, or open interest — rather than ranking by size alone. The goal is markets that are unusual for themselves.
What should you scan for in order flow?
Persistent order-book imbalance, aggressive sweeps and the absorption that halts them, CVD divergence, funding extremes that signal crowding, and open-interest surges that signal new positioning.
See it on the live map
Scan order-book pressure across 300+ Hyperliquid markets in real time.
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