Chapter 4
Trade Bubbles and Volume Bars
Understand bubble size, direction and grouping
What does it mean?
A trade bubble can represent one trade or a cluster within a time/price area. Green indicates dominant aggressive buying; red indicates dominant aggressive selling. An aggressive buy executes against a resting ask; an aggressive sell executes against a resting bid.
A bubble does not identify a participant or prove that they opened a long/short, closed a position or were liquidated.
A bubble does not identify a participant or prove that they opened a long/short, closed a position or were liquidated.
How do you read it in CloudCraft?
Under Settings > Trade bubbles, switch between individual trades and adaptive clusters. In Total volume mode, area represents total volume, fill shows the dominant side and the rim the opposite share. In Absolute delta mode, area represents the magnitude of the buy/sell difference. Balanced clusters may appear grey.
Hover to read buy, sell, total, delta, execution count, price range and UTC times. Volume bars show interval totals or delta in a separate strip.
Hover to read buy, sell, total, delta, execution count, price range and UTC times. Volume bars show interval totals or delta in a separate strip.
How do you use it?
Example: 18 BTC of buys and 7 BTC of sells give 25 BTC total and +11 BTC delta. Buying dominates, yet the price may subsequently fall. The useful question is whether price could remain above the execution area.
Zooming may split clusters into finer groups. Do not directly compare bubble diameters at different zoom levels; read the quantities and time span in the tooltip.
Zooming may split clusters into finer groups. Do not directly compare bubble diameters at different zoom levels; read the quantities and time span in the tooltip.
Key points
Bubble scaling adapts to the visible window's volume distribution and has visibility limits. Diameter is not a fixed BTC ruler.
Minimum bubble volume filters clusters. The heatmap volume filter and Execution Regions threshold are separate controls. Hiding a visual layer does not remove its trades from CVD.
Minimum bubble volume filters clusters. The heatmap volume filter and Execution Regions threshold are separate controls. Hiding a visual layer does not remove its trades from CVD.
This content is for education and analysis only, not investment advice. Market tools offer probability and context, not certainty; the decision is the user responsibility.