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Breakout with new money on a BTC Bid × Ask footprint chart

BTC on 1-hour bars in the 0xArchive Terminal, 2026-10-23.

Open on a chart

Load it on BTC 1h in the terminal, then change its settings or open it in the script editor.
The same breakout candle can mean two things. Price closes outside the previous UTC day’s value area; if open interest rose on that bar, traders opened positions to push it out (New money, in the direction’s colour), which tends to hold. If it fell, the move was positions closing, Covering on a move up or Longs out on a move down, which tends to fade. Between the two it is Mixed. The previous day’s value area high and low are drawn across each day. “Rose” is against the market’s typical swing. Hyperliquid counts both sides of open interest, so a bar can move it by up to twice its volume, and how far it usually moves depends on the market and the interval: half of BTC’s and HYPE’s 15-minute bars moved it by more than 30% of their volume over October 20 to 23, 2026. A breakout is new money when the change beats a typical bar’s size, averaged over the last 96 bars.

How it works

Each fill’s oiDelta is summed per bar with a tally(). On the day’s last bar, profile.since(day).valueArea(70) at chart.rowSize becomes the next day’s reference, kept in state.lists with the bar it starts on, and drawn on the newest bar as two lines a day. A day older than the trades is missing its start, so it is no reference.

Try changing

  • Use the session since a time of your own, such as the New York open, for the reference.
  • Mark a second close outside, once the first has held, as the entry.

The script

breakout-new-money.ts

Next step

See the next example, EMA.
Last modified on October 23, 2026