Live Crypto Price Charts

For being a lively market, the cryptocurrency space has a shocking sparse selection of services which offer live price charting for assets. In fact, the easiest way to get the price of an asset would be to go to each individual exchange to evaluate the current price.

It’s sad - People deserve better.

People deserve a single place to access every price chart in the market. Whether they want to chart the price of BTC in USD or ETH, everyone needs to know what’s happening in the market.

Live Cryptocurrency Price Charts

Instead of navigating every crypto exchange to track the price of an asset in real-time, you will now be able to access charts across each exchange without navigating to their individual websites.

This provides the most immersive experience for viewing asset information, charts, and depth data across every major exchange.

Quickly chart any asset, collect stats, and research cryptocurrencies.

Jump Into The Charts

To get you started quickly, click on one of the links below to view the relevant asset. The rest of this article will break down each component of the asset pages so you can better understand the information that’s being provided.

Bitcoin Live Price Charts (BTC)

Ethereum Live Price Charts (ETH)

XRP Live Price Charts (XRP)

Litecoin Live Price Charts (LTC)

Monero Live Price Charts (XMR)

Feature Breakdown

Charting can be complicated, so let’s go through and break down the different components that are offered by this new charting experience.

High-Level Info

The header text at the top left tells you exactly which asset you are viewing. Everything on the page is intended to describe this asset.

Along with the asset title, we can see the current price, spread, bid depth, and ask depth across all exchanges for this asset. These values are in terms of the quote currency which is specified in the drop-down next to the search box in the far right.

Price

The current price of this asset at this exact moment. The price is calculated based on the paired quote currency and taken as the weighted average across each exchange factoring in the order book depth of the exchange. Since these charts are trading pairs, all assets will have an asset for which they are related. In this case, we can see “USDT” is selected in the top right corner. We will cover this in more detail in the following sections.

Spread

Spread is calculated on Shrimpy as the depth weighted average of the difference between the highest bid and the lowest ask across all exchanges for this specific asset pair (BTC/USDT). That means an exchange with a larger depth (higher liquidity) will be weighted more significantly in the calculation than an exchange with a smaller order book depth (less liquidity).

Bid Depth

Bid depth is the current bid depth of this order book pair across all exchanges. In this case, this will only be evaluating the BTC/USDT pair bid depth.

Ask Depth

Ask depth is the current ask depth of this order book pair across all exchanges. In this case, this will only be evaluating the BTC/USDT pair ask depth.

Quote Currency

Like previously mentioned, every chart prices a base currency in terms of a quote currency. The asset which is the base currency is specified in bold on the top left of the page. The quote currency for which we will compare is specified in the drop-down on the right side of the screen.

This allows you to chart the price of the asset in terms of any quote currency. For example, USDT or ETH. Once selected, the entire page will load the information which is relevant for that quote currency.

Search

The charting service wouldn’t be complete without a simple way to search for exchanges and assets. Quickly find what you’re looking for by typing into the search box. This will display both exchanges and assets, so you don’t need to separate your searches.

You can see in the provided image that we can quickly find an asset or exchange by starting to type the name of the asset or exchange. It’s as easy as that, so you don’t need to struggle to find anything when browsing the website.

Chart

The most obvious feature of this page will most certainly be the chart. This price chart updates in real-time to provide the most up to date pricing for any asset pair across every major exchange. You can watch in real-time as your favorite assets tick up and down the candlestick chart.

Never again will you need to wait for minutes or hours for the latest pricing information from websites like CMC. Instantly have the live price ticker for every asset.

Notice how you can select the interval for the candlesticks. Shrimpy currently supports 1m, 5m, 15m, 1h, 6h, and 1d candlestick periods.

Exchanges

Trading charts just aren’t the same without being able to select your exchange. The options for exchanges depends on the asset page you are on as well as the selected quote currency in the drop-down in the top right.

Only the exchanges which support that specific asset pair will be listed here. As you change the asset pair, you will notice different exchanges get populated here which are those that support the asset pair.

The full list of exchanges supported by these charts can be found here.

Live Order Book

The final content you will see on this page is the long list of orders and amounts. This represents the live order book on the exchange at this time. Essentially, which open orders are currently available on the exchange.

You can see the orders are sorted such that the highest bid and the lowest ask price are at the top. This allows you to quickly evaluate the best orders available on the books at any given time. Essentially, if you were to execute a market buy or sell order at this time, these are the first prices you would take for your order.


If you still have questions about how to read these charts and the data they provide, Kraken provides a great trading glossary which breaks down the definitions for many of these trading terms.

Conclusion

These live cryptocurrency pricing pages will provide a new experience for people to explore the crypto market. Instead of aggregated statistics which aren’t specific to exchanges, drill down into the details which you need to make better decisions.

All of the data, charts, live updates, exchange trading pairs, and more was made using the Shrimpy Developer APIs. They are the most powerful APIs for live cryptocurrency data, exchange management, and order execution.


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