Santiment Reveals: Bitcoin’s 2025 Volume Peaks Are Your Ultimate Buy/Sell Signals
Volume spikes just flagged Bitcoin's next major move—here's what the data says about timing your entry and exit.
Decoding Market Cycles
Santiment's latest analysis shows trading volume surges have consistently predicted Bitcoin's most significant price movements throughout 2025. These volume peaks—not price action—are providing the clearest signals for when to accumulate and when to take profits.
The Whisper Before The Storm
Massive volume increases typically precede major price breaks by 24-48 hours. Retail traders often miss these signals while chasing momentum, but institutional players have been using these indicators to front-run the market all year.
Timing The Tops And Bottoms
The pattern's holding true whether we're talking about the March rally or the July correction. Each major turning point came with volume that would make traditional equity traders blush—and then promptly ignore because it doesn't fit their outdated models.
Volume doesn't lie—though Wall Street analysts trying to apply stock metrics to crypto certainly do. When Bitcoin's volume speaks, smart money listens. Everyone else just pays the price.
Trading Volumes Flagged the Bottom and the Top
Santiment’s chart highlighted two defining moments. One was an $84.08 billion trading volume burst during the tariff-driven dip in April that marked the “bottom signal,” with the second being a much larger $90.90 billion spike in recent weeks that coincided with Bitcoin hitting a new all-time high above $124,000.
According to the analytics firm, the first flagged a sharp selloff that provided bargain entry points for investors, while the second was a top signal, coming in sync with intense profit-taking as BTC set its record high.
“The two largest volume spikes from bitcoin signaled the optimal time to buy (as prices were falling) and sell (as prices peaked to a new ATH),” noted Santiment.
Its assessment comes a couple of days after Glassnode shared an update showing that “First Buyers” had added 50,000 BTC to their holdings in five days, while so-called “Conviction Buyers” also accumulated, albeit more cautiously.
Meanwhile, “Loss Sellers” had increased by nearly 38%, reflecting capitulation from weaker hands, with profit-takers expanding their take to the highest level seen this year. Indeed, on August 20, the platform reported that long-term holders had booked $2.8 billion in profits across Bitcoin, ethereum (ETH), XRP, and Solana (SOL) as the market cooled.
BTC led the rush, realizing its largest profit-taking event since December 2024, when investors pocketed $1.5 billion on July 18. That wave of exits helped push the OG crypto under $113,000 earlier this week, dragging other majors lower and erasing more than $70 billion in total market value overnight.
Adding to the bearish mood, Santiment’s metrics also showed that crowd sentiment on social platforms had swung negative, registering the most pessimism since June.
Price Action
Meanwhile, at the market, Bitcoin was trading at $113,705 at the time of this writing. The price reflects an almost 7% dip over the past week, a relatively poor performance compared to the broader crypto market, which shed 3.5% in the same period.
Furthermore, the asset slipped 3.1% in the last 30 days, although it remains up nearly 91% year-over-year.
