CRYPTO VISUAL SCREENER
About This Tool
The crypto visual screener plots more than 500 Binance USDT-M perpetual futures on one scatter chart, comparing price change with open interest change, price change with futures volume change, or volume change with open interest change over 1 hour, 4 hours, 24 hours, 7 days or 30 days. Quadrants label each coin as longs entering, shorts closing, longs closing or shorts entering.
Drag on the chart to zoom, double-click to reset. Click a coin to pin its details. Hollow dots are outliers pinned to the edge.
What the Visual Screener shows
The Visual Screener places every Binance USDT-margined perpetual on a single chart. Each dot is one coin, and its position shows how two things changed over the selected window: price against open interest, price against futures volume, or futures volume against open interest. Instead of scanning a table row by row, you see at a glance which coins are moving with the market, which are breaking away from it, and how leverage and trading activity are behaving behind each move.
How to read price against open interest
Each quadrant of the price and open interest view describes a different kind of positioning. Price up with open interest up means new positions are carrying the rally, usually read as longs entering. Price up with open interest down means positions are being closed into strength, typically shorts covering. Price down with open interest up suggests fresh shorts are being opened, and price down with open interest down points to longs closing or being liquidated. Coins far from the centre are where the strongest positioning shifts are happening.
How to read volume against price and open interest
Volume shows how much participation stands behind a move. A rally on rising volume has broad support, while a rally on falling volume is thinner and easier to reverse; the same logic applies to selloffs. Plotted against open interest, volume separates activity that builds positions from activity that unwinds them: rising volume with rising open interest means leverage is building, while rising volume with falling open interest means traders are exiting.
Why open interest is counted in contracts by default
A dollar figure for open interest moves with price on its own: if a coin rallies 10%, its open interest in dollars rises by about 10% even if no new contract was opened. That would push every rising coin towards "longs entering" regardless of what traders actually did. Counting contracts instead isolates genuine changes in positioning, which is what the quadrants describe. A switch is available for anyone who prefers the dollar view.
Where the data comes from
The screener covers Binance USDT-margined perpetual futures. Open interest is recorded every hour for every listed perpetual, and price is taken from the same records, so both are measured at exactly the same moments. Volume is futures trading volume in USDT from Binance, compared with the window of equal length immediately before it. All three are aligned to the same hour. Figures are for Binance only, so they can differ from sites that combine several exchanges.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does "longs entering" mean on the Visual Screener?
It marks coins whose price and open interest both rose over the selected window. Rising open interest means new futures positions were opened, and a rising price suggests buyers were the more aggressive side, so the move is usually read as fresh long positions entering the market. It describes recent positioning, not a guarantee that the price will keep rising.
What is the difference between shorts closing and longs entering?
Both happen while price rises, but open interest moves in opposite directions. When open interest falls during a rally, existing positions are being closed, which during a rise usually means short sellers buying back - a short squeeze in its sharpest form. When open interest rises during a rally, new positions are being added. Rallies driven by short covering often fade once the covering is done, while rallies with rising open interest are backed by new commitment.
Why are some coins drawn as hollow circles at the edge of the chart?
Those are outliers. A single coin with an extreme move, such as volume up several hundred percent, would otherwise stretch the axis so far that every other coin collapses into one cluster. Outliers are pinned to the nearest edge and drawn hollow, and their exact values appear when you hover over them. Drag a box on the chart to zoom into any area and double-click to reset.
Which timeframe should I use?
Short windows such as 1H and 4H show positioning that is happening right now and suit intraday trading. 24H is a balanced daily view and the default. 7D and 30D smooth out noise and show which coins have been steadily accumulating or shedding leverage, which is more useful for swing and position trading.
Why do the numbers differ from other sites?
This screener uses Binance USDT-margined perpetual futures only, while some sites combine several exchanges or include coin-margined contracts. Open interest is also counted in contracts by default here, which removes the effect of price on the dollar value. Both choices change the figures, though the overall picture of which coins sit in which quadrant is usually similar.