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The Radar Manual

What every line, chip and number on the radar page means — what the meter charges for, and what runs for free while you sleep. Five minutes, then back to the tape.

01 The meter

The radar is a live feed, so it is priced like one: you pay by the minute, for as long as the tape is open. Nothing is charged while it is closed, and there is no subscription behind it — you turn it on when you want it and off when you don’t.

1Press TUNE IN. The gate lifts and events start arriving.
2The pill in the header is the meter: how long you have been on, and what you have spent so far. The brass sweep crossing it is the minute you have already paid for.
3Set AUTO-STOP if you might walk away — 30 minutes, an hour, four hours, or never. It cuts the feed for you.
4CUT FEED stops the meter there and then. The tape closes and the charging stops with it.

Behind the gate sits a frozen, clearly-marked SAMPLE of what a running tape looks like. It is there so you can see the shape of the thing before paying for it. It is not live and it never moves.

✓The tape, the rail, the coin strip and the depth ladder all ride the same poll — one price covers the whole page.
✓Watches cost nothing per minute. They run whether or not you are tuned in.
✗Two windows never bill twice — see Pop out.
02 The tape

One event, one line, newest at the top. Left to right: the time, a tag saying what happened, the coin, the size, the venue it happened on, and a short note in plain words.

Behind each line is a size bar. Its width is that print measured against the loudest print of your session, so a wall of numbers becomes a shape you can read without doing arithmetic. Large prints turn brass; the very largest also step up a font size. Nothing else on the row changes height, so the tape never jumps as it scrolls.

Whale buyA single market buy big enough to clear the size floor. Somebody took what was offered.
Whale sellThe same in reverse — a market sell hitting the bids.
Liq longA long was forced out. The exchange closed the position, which mechanically means a sell.
Liq shortA short was forced out — a forced buy, and the fuel behind most fast squeezes.
ClusterSeveral prints the same direction inside ninety seconds. One participant working an order, or several arriving at the same conclusion at once.
WallA large order resting in the book. Nothing has traded — it is an intention, not an event, which is why it is brass rather than green or red.
FundingThe perpetual funding rate moved. Positive means longs are paying shorts; negative means the reverse.
OI spikeOpen interest jumped or dropped sharply — positions opening fast, or being closed out.

Venues covered: Binance, Bybit, OKX and Hyperliquid. A cluster that spans more than one of them says multi.

Green and red mean direction, not good and bad. A green line is buying pressure and a red line is selling pressure — which of those helps you depends entirely on which side you are on.
03 Filters & rows

The chips above the tape are free and instant. Everything already delivered stays in the page; the chips only change what is shown, so filtering never re-fetches anything and never costs a razor.

ALL, WHALES, LIQUIDATIONS, CLUSTERS, WALLS, FUNDING and OPEN INTEREST pick the kinds you want. The last chip is a size floor, set to ≥ $1M by default — turn it off if you want to see everything the relay sends.

Right-click any row for the menu that does the rest:

Watch thisArm an alert shaped like the row you clicked — either on that coin or on any coin at that size. Opens Watches with the sentence already filled in.
SharePost the print into The Floor as a card, so the chat can see the same line you did.
Only showSolo one coin. Everything else hides until you clear it.
HideMute a coin for this session — useful when one ticker is drowning out the tape.
Open chartOpens that symbol on TradingView, on the venue the print came from, in a new tab.
Copy lineThe whole row as plain text, on your clipboard.
A solo or a mute always shows itself. Both appear as their own chip in the filter row, and clearing the chip is the way back out. Without that, a filtered tape and a dead feed look identical — which is also why the empty panel tells you which one you are looking at rather than just going blank.
04 The coin strip

Press a symbol — on the tape, or anywhere in the rail — and a strip opens above the tape with that coin’s current readings: last price, net whale flow over the hour, funding, the one-minute change in open interest, the long/short split, and how many walls are resting in its book.

Every figure comes off the poll the tape is already making, so opening the strip costs nothing extra and adds nothing to the per-minute rate.

Depth
The book
Opens that coin’s wall ladder in the rail, in place of the market blocks. The back arrow returns them.
Only this
Solo the tape
Same as the row menu’s solo — press it again, or clear the chip, to bring everything back.
Watch
Arm an alert
Opens Watches with this coin already chosen, so you only pick the condition and the size.
05 The rail

The tape is what just happened. The rail on the right is what has been true all hour — the numbers that don’t scroll away.

The pressure dial. One reading for the whole market: whale buying against whale selling over the last hour, across every coin the relay carries. It is measured against the hour’s total volume, not in dollars — a market that moved forty million each way is busy, not lopsided, and one that moved four million all one way is lopsided. In dollars those two come out the wrong way round.

Evenly matchedUnder five points either way. The needle sits near vertical and the figure goes grey — but the number underneath stays true rather than being rounded to zero to agree with the caption.
Buyers leaningBuying has the edge, but not decisively.
Buyers in controlTwenty points or more of net buying. Rare, and worth noticing.
Sellers leaningThe same on the sell side.
Sellers in controlTwenty points or more of net selling.
Full scale is forty points, not a hundred. A whole market netted against itself very nearly cancels — a real tape sits around ten or fifteen, and a violent hour reaches thirty. Drawn to a theoretical hundred the needle would never leave vertical. Past full scale it pegs, which is honest: the figure underneath still shows the true number, so a pegged needle over −67 cannot be mistaken for −40.

Under the dial, MARKET shows the market’s own four numbers with a small trend line each — BTC funding, total open interest, the long/short split, and whale net for the hour. The open-interest line follows positions, not price: a rally with nobody opening anything leaves it flat. COINS shows the same readings coin by coin. HEAT lays out the 24 loudest coins of the hour as a grid: green bought, red sold, deeper colour means more money, and the percentage says how one-sided that coin’s hour was.

Resting
Standing walls
Large orders parked in the book — how far from price, how long they have been there, and how much of the shelf has already traded through.
Executed
Money flow · 1h
Which coins whales actually moved money in over the hour, and which way.
Forced
Liquidations · 1h
Longs against shorts as a single bar. A heavily one-sided bar says which side has been getting hurt.
Walls are a narrower feed than the rest of the page. The detector reads a limited set of Binance order books, not the whole market. If you open depth on a coin it doesn’t cover, the panel says so in as many words — an empty ladder and an unwatched book are different answers, and the page knows which is which.
06 Pop out

POP OUT moves the tape into its own small window, so you can park it beside a chart instead of keeping a whole tab on it. The window is the session — it does the polling, and it does the billing.

✓Only one window ever pays. The page you left says plainly that the tape moved, and offers BRING IT BACK.
✓You can close the original tab. The popup keeps running on its own.
✗Closing the popup stops the meter. That is the intended way to end a session from there.
✗Not offered on phones. A phone opens a tab, not a window, and the operating system freezes background tabs — the feed would stop while the page claimed it was still running.

The rail is hidden on the page you left rather than left showing the numbers from the moment the session departed. Frozen figures next to “it moved” read as a bug.

07 Watches

Watches are the un-metered half of this page. A watch is a condition you arm once; the server checks it every minute and tells you when it clears, whether or not the tape is open and whether or not you are anywhere near the site. That is the whole point of them — nobody can sit on a live feed all day.

The sentence is the form. You are not filling in fields, you are writing one line of English: tell me on Telegram when there is a whale buy on SOL over $1M, at most once every five minutes. Reading a wrong choice back as a sentence is the cheapest way to catch it before it is armed.

Prints
Trades
Whale buys and sells, long and short liquidations, clusters. Either side, or one specific side.
Book
Walls
A large bid or ask being hit — eaten through, reloaded, or pulled once price arrived. A wall merely appearing never fires: anyone can post one and pull it. Limited to the books the detector covers.
Hour
Net flow
A coin’s whale flow for the hour crossing a size, rather than any single print doing so.
Derivatives
Funding & OI
Funding stretching past a rate, or open interest jumping or dropping past a percentage.

Two ways to size a watch, and the kind decides which. Prints, walls and net flow are sized in dollars, from $50K up to $50M. Funding and open interest are sized in percent — funding carries no dollar figure at all, and open interest’s dollar number is the standing total rather than the size of the move, so a dollar bar there would mean nothing.

The bottom of each ladder is the feed’s own floor. Nothing smaller than that ever reaches the tape in the first place, so setting a lower bar does not buy you a finer watch — it just buys you a watch that can never fire.

How often it may speak. Every watch carries a cooldown, from thirty seconds to a day. The defaults are matched to the feed’s own per-coin limits, so a watch never promises to tell you more often than the market data can actually be checked. A watch with no cooldown on a busy coin is a watch you will mute within the hour.

Where it lands. Telegram, the in-app bell, or both. Telegram needs your account linked first; the modal says so if it isn’t, and until it is, a Telegram watch rings the bell instead of going nowhere.

Slots. You get ten armed watches to start. When they are full, the modal offers another ten for razors — a one-time cost, not a rental. Delete one and the slot comes straight back.

At the foot of the modal is a log of the last 24 hours of fires, newest first. If it is empty, nothing has cleared your bars in that time — which is a reading in itself, and usually means the bar is set higher than the market has been moving.

Each watch fires at most 24 times in any 24 hours. A watch set so wide that it would speak every few minutes goes quiet at that limit instead of drowning you, and the list says so; it picks up again as its oldest fires age out.

Set the bar where it means something. A watch on any coin at $100K with a thirty-second cooldown will fire more or less continuously, and a feed that never stops talking is a feed you stop reading. Start high, and lower the bar only when it goes quiet for a day.
08 The Risk
Read this once, properly

Nothing on Razor Alpha is financial advice. The tape, the rail, the readings and the watches are educational and informational tools. They are not recommendations to buy or sell anything, and Razor Alpha is not a broker, dealer, or investment advisor.

A large print is not a prediction. Whales are wrong, liquidations cascade in both directions, and a wall can be pulled a second before price reaches it. Crypto markets are volatile and you can lose everything you put in. Any trade you take is your own decision, made at your own risk — do your own research, and never risk capital you can’t afford to lose.

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