Practical overview
When it fits
Use it when a standard exchange depth chart does not provide enough detail about the individual orders behind visible support or resistance.
Who it is for
- Traders examining support and resistance in an exchange order book
- Developers interested in a Python Dash market-monitoring application
- Crypto market observers looking for order-level views of large buy and sell walls
Documented uses
- Inspect large individual limit orders within visible buy and sell walls
- Identify repeated equal-sized orders arranged across a price ladder
- Compare the concentration of order-book volume near the current market price
- Freeze the live refresh to examine the displayed market view
Requirements & limits
The repository is public and lists an MIT license. Its documentation recommends local execution for the latest computationally intensive version and links to a hosted instance of an earlier version.
- Exchange scope: the documented implementation is operational for GDAX, while broader exchange coverage requires additional integrations.
- Detection threshold: the visualization displays orders making up at least 1% of the shown order-book volume.
- Market window: the documented view covers approximately plus or minus 5% from the current market price.
- Interpretation: ladder patterns are inferred from order IDs and order placement patterns; the application cannot confirm that they belong to one actor.
- Technical setup: the latest version is described as computationally intensive and intended to run locally.
Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.
Set up the dashboard for local use
Prepare the computationally intensive version for local operation.
Before you start
- Python-based project environment
- The crypto-whale-watching-app repository
- A local machine suitable for the latest computationally intensive version
Steps
Obtain the project from the public GitHub repository.
Follow the repository's How-To / User Guide instructions to run the latest version locally.
Use the earlier commit linked by the repository if the latest version causes trouble.
Expected outcome
A locally run version of the dashboard prepared for examining the documented exchange data view.
Guide limitations
- The supplied instructions do not specify commands, dependency versions, or a complete execution sequence.
- The documented implementation is presently operational for GDAX; further exchange integrations require modification.
Sources & review
Source record details
- Source availability
- Active
- Sources checked
- 2 October 2026
- Original website title
- pmaji/crypto-whale-watching-app · Official homepage title · retained in its source language