What this shows
Every coin here trades with real depth: the list is the 200 coins with the most volume on Binance USDT perpetuals, which is where most crypto day trading happens. For each one, the last 30 days of hourly candles answer the questions a day trader asks first:
- Beta: when Bitcoin moves 1% in an hour, how far does this coin move on average? A beta of 1.5 means about 1.5% in the same direction.
- Correlation: how reliably it moves with Bitcoin. A high beta with a low correlation is a coin that moves a lot, but often for its own reasons.
- Lag: does the coin react to Bitcoin's move an hour later? We test it for every coin and mark the ones where the effect is clearly larger than noise.
- Day range: the median distance from the day's low to its high. This is the room a day trade has to work in.
- Yesterday and volume: whether the coin is moving more than usual right now, and on more volume than usual.
- Jumps: hours with a 5% move or more. They make good days and blown stops.
- Busiest hours: the UTC hours when the coin moves the most.
Sort by any column, or use the filters for Bitcoin amplifiers, coins on their own path, coins waking up and coins that follow Bitcoin later.
The daily watchlist
Every morning before 06:00 UTC the screener picks two short lists for the 06:00 to 20:00 UTC window:
- Expected to move the most: five coins with at least $10 million a day of perpetual volume, ranked by an expected range, half their usual window range over 30 days and half their average over the last three days. It rests on the most reliable pattern in market data: volatility persists. A coin that moved a lot yesterday tends to move a lot today, in either direction.
- Bitcoin amplifiers: the three coins with the highest beta among those that track Bitcoin closely (correlation 0.7 or more). If you have a view on Bitcoin, these are the coins that express it with the most leverage.
Neither list says which way a coin will go. The watchlist is posted to our Telegram channel at 06:00 UTC, and at 20:00 UTC we post how far each coin actually moved.
How the watchlist is checked
The watchlist is saved before the window opens and never changed afterwards; each day's entry includes a hash of the previous one, so a rewritten past pick would show. After 20:00 UTC we take OKX hourly candles for every screened coin OKX lists and compare each pick's high-low range with the median range of all screened coins over the same hours. A pick that moved more than the typical coin counts as a hit. The lift is the picks' average range divided by the typical coin's range: above 1× means the list did its job.
Before going live we replayed the rule over the stored history: for each of the last 20 days, rank the coins using only the days before it, then measure the next day. The result is shown above the table. When we launched, the picks had moved about 2.9 times as much as the typical coin, and 95% of them beat it. A simpler rule, yesterday's range alone, did almost as well (2.75 times). It is a replay over a short period, so the live record is the number that counts.
What we found when we built it
- "It lagged Bitcoin today, so it will catch up tomorrow" did not hold up. On daily data the link between a coin's shortfall against Bitcoin one day and its move the next was indistinguishable from zero for every large coin we tested.
- Hourly lag is rare. At launch, only 2 of 199 coins carried a measurable part of Bitcoin's move into the next hour. Almost every coin absorbs it within the same hour, so "Bitcoin just moved, the altcoin will follow" leaves little to trade.
- Volatility is the persistent thing. Which coins will move the most tomorrow is far more predictable than which way they will go. That is why the watchlist ranks by expected range and nothing else.
Limits
- Past 30 days only. Betas and ranges change with the market, and a new listing or a news event can make any coin the biggest mover of the day.
- One venue for prices, one for checking. Prices come from Binance spot, liquidity from Binance perpetuals and the evening check from OKX. Prices on large venues stay within a fraction of a percent of each other, but volumes differ.
- A day behind on the table. The table is built from the last full UTC day; it does not see what happened since midnight.
- Range is not profit. A coin that moves 8% from low to high can still stop you out twice on the way. This is a list of where the movement is, not a strategy.
FAQ
Which altcoins move the most with Bitcoin? Sort the table by Beta, or use the "Bitcoin amplifiers" filter for coins with a beta of 1.3 or more and a correlation of at least 0.7. The morning watchlist names the top three every day.
Which crypto is best for day trading today? The watchlist lists the five coins with the largest expected range in the 06:00 to 20:00 UTC window, and the evening check shows how they did. Whether a coin suits you also depends on its liquidity, jumps and the hours it is most active, which are all in the table.
Does an altcoin that lags Bitcoin catch up later? Usually not. We tested it on daily data for large coins and found no catch-up effect, and only a minority of coins carry any part of Bitcoin's move into the next hour. The "Lag" column shows the test for each coin.
Is this financial advice? No. The screener measures how coins have moved and checks a simple rule in public. It does not say which way any coin will go.