Crypto Gann Swing Chart: Two-Bar Swings on USDT Pairs

• An up swing starts when price makes two higher highs in a row.
• A down swing starts on two lower lows in a row.
• When the direction flips, the swing that just ended leaves a swing point: the highest high of an up swing, or the lowest low of a down swing.
• An outside day, a higher high and a lower low together, does not flip the direction.

Several Gann pages measure from the last major swing. A swing point comes from Gann's two-bar swing chart (see the crypto Swing Chart guide); it is major when its high or low is also the highest or lowest of the ten days on either side of it. Crypto has no holidays, so that is ten calendar days: a swing becomes major ten days after it is made.

What changes on crypto

• Every day is a bar. Saturdays and Sundays count, so a two-day confirmation can come over a weekend, and "60 sessions" in the Swings column is 60 calendar days.
• The day is the IST day. A turn is decided by the candle from 00:00 to 23:59 IST. A move that starts in the US afternoon is split across two Indian days.
• Whole-market days. Most coins move with BTC, so turns tend to arrive in clusters rather than one stock at a time.

On 6 November 2026 XRPUSDT fell 3.93% to close at 1.1867 on 1.51 times its usual volume. It was the one pair on the list that day tagged both Turned down and Lower high. Its swing chart, left to right:

• Swing highs: 1.43 on 11 October, 1.3992 on 21 October, 1.3444 on 28 October and 1.3414 on 4 November. Each a little lower than the one before.
• Swing lows: 1.2562 on 19 October, 1.2546 on 24 October, 1.2002 on 30 October. Each lower again.
• The turn: on 5 and 6 November XRP made two lower lows in a row, so the swing turned down and the 4 November high became a swing point. At 1.3414 it is below 1.3444, so the row also carries Lower high.
• Swings (60d): 12. An active chart, but each swing was big enough to read.

The page shows the last swing high (1.34, 4 November) and the last swing low (1.20, 30 October) with their dates. Prices of 1 USDT or more are shown to two decimals, so the third and fourth decimals above come from the chart pop-up.

The whole list on 30 October 2026

The crypto sell-off of 30 October shows what a swing chart looks like when the market moves as one. Every live pair except the stablecoin, 32 in all, passed the liquidity rule that day; 20 turned down and 16 of those turns left a lower high. Two of them, read side by side:

• ETHUSDT turned down from a swing high of 2,526.62 (21 October), below the 2,587.28 high before it: Turned down and Lower high.
• BTCUSDT turned down from 84,898 (21 October), which was above its previous high of 84,352. That is a turn, not yet a lower high: on the swing chart BTC was still making higher highs when it turned.

1. Read the market first. Open the Turned Up and Turned Down tabs and count. Twenty pairs turning down on one day, as on 30 October, is a market move; one or two is a coin-specific one.
2. Check BTC's own row. Altcoins rarely hold a turn up while BTC's swing is down. Use BTC's direction as the filter for anything you look at below it.
3. Prefer turns that make structure. A turn up that leaves a higher low (or down with a lower high) says the swings themselves are rising or falling, not just the latest bar.
4. Put the stop at the swing point. For XRP's turn down on 6 November, the swing high at 1.3414 is the level that, if taken out, undoes the lower high.
5. Read the Swings (60d) count. A count in the teens means the swing flips every few days and each turn means less.

These are ideas to study, paper-trade and backtest, not recommendations or signals, and not a promise of any result. Every condition below can fail. Crypto trades around the clock and can move sharply at any hour; leverage and options can lose more than you expect, and past behaviour says nothing certain about the next session. Size, entries, exits and risk are your own decisions.

1. Trade with the market's turn, not against it

• Setup: a pair on Turned Down plus Lower High on a day when most of the list turned down too, like ETH on 30 October.
• Idea: study shorts or hedges on the weakest structures while the list is turning down, with the stop above the new lower high.
• Caution: on 29 October eight pairs turned up and seven of them turned back down the next day. A turn is one day's evidence.

2. The higher-low turn, filtered by BTC

• Setup: Turned Up plus Higher Low on a pair whose chart is not choppy, on a day when BTC's own swing is up.
• Entry idea: the turn, or a move above that day's high. Invalidation: a close below the new swing low.

3. Wait for the other half of the trend

A lower high is half a downtrend. A daily close below the last swing low (XRP's 1.2002) completes it: lower high and lower low. A later, wider-stop entry, but with both halves confirmed.

4. Know which swing the other pages use

Degree Levels, Retracements, the Fan, Time Cycles and Squaring all measure from the last major swing. A turn here does not move their numbers until it has stood for ten days.

How to test these

Pick past days, note the pairs on Turned Up plus Higher Low, and record how often a higher high followed before the swing low broke. Split the results by whether BTC's swing was up or down that day.

Risk per trade - risk a small, fixed share of capital on any one idea. Crypto never closes, so a stop is the only exit while you sleep; with leverage, keep the liquidation price well beyond the stop. When selling options, prefer defined-risk structures (spreads, iron condors) over naked positions.

Test before you trade - write the rules down exactly, test them on past data (see how to backtest an options strategy and the Option Simulator, which supports crypto), then paper-trade at least 20 occurrences before committing real money. Keep a journal of every trade, including the ones you skipped.

• All - every liquid pair with a swing direction.
• Turned Up / Turned Down - the swing changed direction on the day.
• Higher Low - the day's turn up left a swing low above the previous one.
• Lower High - the day's turn down left a swing high below the previous one.

• Swing - the current direction, Up or Down.
• Last Swing High / Low and their dates.
• Swings (60d) - how many swing points formed in the last 60 days.
• Tag - Turned up, Turned down, Higher low, Lower high.
• Chart - the daily candles with the two-bar swing line drawn through every swing point.

Click a row to open its Gann squares (Square of 9, Gann Wheel, Square of 144 and Hexagon) drawn for that pair's price.

• Pairs. The live USDT pairs in Unfluke's crypto archive (34 on 8 November 2026). A pair whose 20-day average range is under 0.25% of price is not scanned, which is meant to keep stablecoins out; after a few wide wicks in late October 2026, USDCUSDT was briefly back on some lists.
• Liquidity first. A pair is listed only if its 20-day average turnover is above US$500,000, today's turnover above US$100,000, and today's volume above 0.8× the average of the previous 20 days. There is no circuit rule; crypto has no price bands.
• Days. Daily candles are IST calendar days, 00:00 to 23:59, rolled up from the one-minute Binance spot archive. Everything is end of day, and the newest day is topped up during the day, so it can be partial until 23:59 IST.
• Quiet days empty the page. The volume rule compares a day with the 20 before it, and weekends trade less. On Saturday 7 November 2026 one pair passed; on Sunday 8 November none did, so every Gann page was empty. Signed-in users can pick an earlier session date.
• Universe. All, Futures (pairs with a perpetual future in the archive) or Options (BTC and ETH).
• Look-back. The swing-based pages read about 400 days of history. One extreme candle, such as the crash of 10 to 11 October 2025 when several altcoins printed lows near zero on Binance, stays in that window for over a year and can dominate the swings measured from it. If a row's swing dates point at a crash day, read it with care.

Gann levels, angles and cycles are research references. They describe geometry on a price chart, not a forecast, and prices move through them regularly.

Open the page at Gann → Swing Chart (switch the market to Crypto). The NSE version is explained in the Gann Swing Chart guide.

The other crypto Gann guides: Square of 9 Levels, Level Cross, Cardinal & Diagonal, Degree Levels. For floor pivots on the same pairs, read the crypto pivot points guide; for a day's unusual volume, the crypto Volume Shockers guide. Sign up free to open the Market Terminal.