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Crypto Volume vs Percent Move
BattleTicker is built around equity earnings. On days with no usable stock names, the public X jobs still need a tape. Those fallbacks are crypto — and volume and percent move answer different questions.
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Volume-versus-percentage ranking rules apply equally across digital assets and equities during high-volatility windows.
Refreshed with the Gemini editorial batch · 2026-10-12
Two rankings, one rule
Earnings-style posts (what is trading) take the top five coins by 24-hour volume, stables excluded. Recap-style posts (what moved) take the top five by 24-hour percent change, and only if the absolute move is at least 5%. Recaps no longer skip weekends. There is no separate weekend-only crypto job.
Volume without a move is liquidity. A large percent on a thin coin is noise. Using volume for the “what is open” post and percent for the “what printed” post keeps those jobs from swapping identities.
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Crypto marks try a WebSocket cascade (Binance → Coinbase → Kraken) and fall back to REST plus /api/quote. Status labels are CONNECTING, LIVE (WS), LIVE (REST), or OFFLINE. That cascade is independent of the X ranking rules above.