Orders that hit the market leaned to the buy side for Bitcoin over the 24 hours to Oct 17. Buying beat selling by +1,965 BTC across that window. The last hour ran the other way, with 0.68 units bought for every unit sold.

As of 16:48 UTC, Binance counted 1.68 $BTC accounts long for every short. Its biggest traders hold 1.8 long accounts per short, and 1.73 measured by position size. OKX showed 1.77, and Bybit had 62.9% of its accounts on the buy side.

Among the 30 coins we track, SIREN carries the most lopsided crowd, with 3.75 accounts long for every short on Binance.