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Market heatmap
A live, colour-coded view of how crypto and US shares are performing today — green for gainers, red for decliners, intensity by the size of the move.
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Colour intensity reflects the size of today's move. Live for crypto (24/7) and US shares during market hours.
Heatmap data is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice.
Overview
The whole market in a single glance
A heatmap compresses hundreds of price moves into one picture your eye can read instantly.
A market heatmap turns a wall of quotes into a single colour-coded grid. Each tile is an instrument; its colour shows whether it is up or down, and the intensity of that colour shows by how much. In one glance you can see whether the market is broadly bid or offered, where the strongest and weakest moves sit, and which corners of the market are quietly diverging from the crowd — information that would take far longer to assemble from individual charts.
That speed is the point. Active traders need to know the state of the market before they drill into any one name, and a heatmap delivers that context immediately. Is today a risk-on, sea-of-green session or a narrow, selective one? Is strength concentrated in a single sector or spread across the board? Answering those questions first stops you trading a name in isolation while missing the bigger flow that is really driving it.
A heatmap is best treated as a discovery and context tool rather than a signal generator. It points you to where attention and money are flowing — the outliers, the rotations, the breadth — and from there you take the idea to the chart for a proper entry, stop and risk plan. Because trading leveraged products magnifies both gains and losses, a striking tile is a prompt to investigate, never a shortcut around that analysis.
How to use it
Read the board like a desk does
Four ways to extract a real read from a wall of colour.
Read colour, then intensity
Colour gives direction — green for gainers, red for decliners. Intensity gives magnitude: a deep green tile is up far more than a pale one. Scan colour first to see the mood, then intensity to find where the real action is.
Gauge market breadth
A screen that is overwhelmingly green or red tells you a move is broad and conviction-driven. A patchwork of both suggests a selective, rotational market where index level alone hides what is really going on underneath.
Spot rotation and leadership
When one sector or asset class lights up green while others fade, money is rotating. Tracking which group leads — and which lags — points to where strength is concentrating before it shows up in a single index print.
Isolate relative strength
Compare names side by side to find the standouts: a stock holding deep green while its sector is red is showing relative strength, and one bleeding red against a green backdrop is the relative weakling worth watching.
Concepts
The ideas behind the colour
Four concepts that turn a pretty grid into genuine market insight.
Breadth
Breadth measures how many instruments are participating in a move. A rally led by a handful of names on a mostly red board is narrow and fragile; one where the whole map is green is broad and better supported. The heatmap makes breadth visible at a glance, where an index level alone conceals it.
Rotation
Capital rarely flows into everything at once. Rotation is the movement of money between sectors, regions or asset classes — out of one group and into another — often while the headline index barely moves. Watching which tiles turn green as others fade is how you see rotation as it happens.
Relative strength
Relative strength compares one instrument's performance against its peers or the broader market. The strongest names tend to lead and the weakest tend to lag, so a tile that stays green while its neighbours turn red flags leadership worth a closer look on the chart.
Correlation
When tiles across a group move together — all green or all red in lockstep — they are highly correlated, and stacking positions among them concentrates rather than spreads risk. When they diverge, correlation is breaking down, which can signal a regime change or a genuine diversification opportunity.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Colour shows direction of performance: green tiles are gaining and red tiles are declining over the chosen period, usually the current day. The shade carries extra information — a deeper, more saturated colour means a larger move, while a pale tile is barely changed. Reading colour and shade together gives you both direction and magnitude instantly.
Colour answers whether an instrument is up or down; intensity answers by how much. Two green tiles can represent very different moves — a faint one might be up a fraction of a percent while a vivid one is up several percent. Always read the intensity, not just the colour, to avoid mistaking a small move for a big one.
Breadth describes how widely a move is shared. If most of the map is the same colour, participation is broad and the move has conviction behind it. If gains are confined to a few large tiles while the rest are red, the rally is narrow and may be less durable. Breadth is one of the clearest reads a heatmap offers.
Group the heatmap by sector or asset class and watch which blocks turn green while others cool off. When strength shifts consistently from one group to another, money is rotating between them — a pattern that often appears on the map before it becomes obvious in any single index or price.
Because it shows many instruments at once, a heatmap lets you compare performance directly. A name holding deep green while its sector is mostly red is outperforming its peers, signalling relative strength; a name bleeding red against a green backdrop is the relative laggard. Those outliers are natural candidates for further analysis.
A heatmap is a fast way to survey the market and generate ideas, but it is a starting point rather than a signal. It shows you where attention and money are flowing; confirming an actual trade still calls for chart analysis, a defined entry and stop, and proper risk management. Leveraged products magnify both gains and losses, so a colourful tile is never a reason to skip that work.
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