$EDGE That just now 15-minute candle has something to it. It came with a volume increase of +1.53% and immediately pushed through the upper edge of the range covering nearly 20 5-minute K-lines. Volume expansion reached 1.87 times the normal level. What’s interesting is that on the futures side, OI is falling: the 15-minute OI decreased by 0.18%, and over the past hour it shrank by 0.6%. This kind of price rise while positions decline looks more like short covering rather than fresh long entries.

Now look at the order flow: the aggressive trade difference is down 11.4%, and the buy/sell ratio is 1.26, which suggests that indeed someone is sweeping the book with large orders, buying aggressively and driving price up. Intraday volatility isn’t crazy either—Z-score is 3.06, within a reasonably high range. In terms of whole-pool anomaly ranking, it’s around 11th, and participation depth is quite decent; it doesn’t feel like a volume-less, artificial pump.

Trading volume over 24 hours is in the tens of millions of USD—beyond the threshold. But it’s currently 1 a.m., so liquidity isn’t at its most abundant time. If you’re chasing in the short term, be a bit cautious. With a low-priced ticket like EDGE, once it starts, it often gives you a day to slowly digest the move. For the near term, keep an eye on overhead resistance and whether volume can follow through. A pullback on reduced volume is actually what can best reveal the real strength of the longs.