Changelog
Released: July 20, 2021
This week the Cryptowatch team released new charts for blockchain data, updated page designs for the Markets and Exchanges pages, and added multiple updates to your Portfolio tools. On the Portfolio page, we’ve improved the design of the Value-over-time series and Profit/Loss histogram and added fees data to the Trade History tab.
Cryptowatch traders can now supplement their analysis with blockchain metrics charts, as provided by Coin Metrics. You can find these charts by typing either “Bitcoin blockchain” or “Ethereum blockchain” into the search bar on any page, then selecting a fundamental metric from the list. Fundamental data charts are labeled with “Fundamentals”. More documentation on these metrics, including the full list of supported metrics, can be found here.
We’ve updated the look of the Value-over-time and Profit/Loss Histogram tools, moving the period buttons to the top right, the OHLC bar and best/worst performers to below the Value-over-time graph, and separating the P/L Histogram into its own space below.
Cryptowatch traders will also notice the Cumulative Rate of Return (RoR) metric on the P/L Histogram. Hovering your cursor over any period in the P/L Histogram reveals the Periodic Return data for that period.
Trading fees are now listed in the rightmost column of the Trades History tab.
This week we released new looks for the Markets and Exchanges pages, keeping with the overall design refresh of Cryptowatch. Rows on these pages are now separated by alternating colors, and the filters buttons are reduced in size and less intrusive.
Released: June 29, 2021
Cryptowatch Chat now renders MP4 videos — drop a video URL in the Chat to try it out.
Released: June 8, 2021
This week Cryptowatch released tier information and the ability to upgrade & downgrade subscription tiers (for example, upgrading free access to Cryptofinance to a Standard plan).
Two new chat rooms have been added — Technical Analysis and DeFi. Finally, this release also added a new overlay to the Analysis menu, the Arnaud Legoux Moving Average.
Adding subscription services to your crypto-toolbox is now a simpler task — our Subscriptions page now includes a description of the service, what’s included in each tier, as well as handy upgrade/downgrade buttons alongside each subscription tier. If a free trial is available, that’s automatically labeled as “Active” on the subscriptions page.
These new chat rooms are for traders eager to share their market outlooks and talk about the DeFi (Decentralized Finance) space.
In the Technical Analysis room, share your chart snapshots and talk trading with the rest of the CW bunch. As Cryptowatch trader Cryplyfe puts it:
“What’s this? A trading forum on a trading app?!”
The ALMA overlay performs a moving average calculation twice — once from left to right, and once from right to left. This, plus normalized distribution within the calculation whittles down noise and improves the trendline. ALMA trendlines experience less lag than a simple moving average, revealing more timely signals. Check it out on the Charts page.
Released: May 18, 2021
This week our team released a newly designed header bar to Cryptowatch web, a Profit & Loss histogram to the Portfolio page, updates to our Chat and the Analysis tools library, and a massive quality-of-life update to Charts — undo/redo.
We’ve updated Cryptowatch’s look with a new header and utility bar, scrapping the lines between elements for a more modern look.
Scrolling and adding markets to your watchlist in the header is simpler (click the + icon in the right corner), and the Cryptowatch logo and search bar are condensed to make room for your watched markets on the Charts page.
This feature let’s traders undo their last charting action or redo the last action they’ve undone, streamlining your analysis process. Right click the chart area to open the context menu, then select undo/redo from the bottom of the menu. Alternatively, use the hotkeys:
Undo: Ctrl (Cmd) + Z
Redo: Shift + Ctrl (Cmd) + Z
A new portfolio tool measuring your relative returns across the selected period in the Net Value Time Series graph. The P/L histogram visualizes fluctuations in your combined Portfolio value across all of your funded & connected exchanges.
We’ve added badges next to usernames in the Chat to denote new users, moderators, and other special-someones. Clicking on a username opens their profile overview, displaying any badges they have, as well as the age of their profile.
The Wilder’s Volatility Indicator (found in the Analysis menu) uses an Average True Range indicator to measure market volatility, attempting to generate well-timed buy and sell signals.
Added ability to remove saved credit cards.
Added Transaction History filter — can filter by transaction types & time period (since/before).
Released: April 27, 2021
Summary:
Homepage Dashboard: Signing in to Cryptowatch reveals a personalized homepage, summarizing your Portfolio and assets, recently-viewed markets, plus a restyled blog and news feed.
Portfolio Customization: Traders can now hide, show, and re-order the tools on the Portfolio page. Just click the icon on the upper right of the Portfolio page.
Cryptofinance: Cryptofinance subscriptions are now live — swap Credits for a monthly subscription to this powerful Google sheets add-on and build your own crypto tools.
Alert Notes and Names: Name your alerts and add notes to them — reminders, actions to take, wagers won or lost against other traders in the Chat room — there are endless possibilities for this new feature.
New Overlay: Hull Moving Average: Developed by Alan Hull, the Hull Moving Average aims to provide a nearly lag-free moving average while maintaining a smooth curve.
Minor Updates
Homepage cards moved to assets page
Exchange keys page — exchanges contain links to connection walkthroughs in Cryptowatch Guides
Smarter X-axis Labelling
First hour of the day labeled with day number
First day of the month labeled with month name
First day of the year labeled with year number
Read on for more information and images of new releases.
Cryptowatch’s homepage now converts into an at-a-glance crypto dashboard for signed-in traders. Included in this new signed-in homepage Dashboard are:
Portfolio overview: value-over-time chart (with selectable time ranges up to 1 year)
Unrealized profit/loss
Asset allocation heatmap
Product updates feed
Restyled news and blog feeds
Top assets list by: Top volume, Top market cap, 24h Best & 24h Worst performers
Traders can now reorganize their Cryptowatch Portfolio tools — super handy as we continue to add & improve new portfolio visuals and charts. Click the “hamburger” icon to the top-right of your portfolio tools to hide, show and reorder tools on the page.
More Portfolio updates:
New colors/style — Portfolio Composition & Performance heatmap.
NVTS and home dashboard change chart default to 7 day.
NVTS saves your last time-period selection, will display that time series on reload.
USDT added to Global Currency Switcher.
Our team has added Cryptofinance subscriptions to our growing list of services. Subscribing to Cryptofinance grants access to the best features of this powerful Google Sheets add-on. You will now find price and data information on the Credits & Billing page.
Cryptofinance combines with Google Sheets powerful formulae to let you build your own crypto tools — whether tracking your balances, visualizing complex data, or more.
Add a name and notes to any alert in the Alerts panel, found in the Utility Belt on the right side of the screen.
Alert notes show within the alert display, in SMS and email alerts. Leave practical reminders, all-time-high notifications, analysis notes or total gibberish — whatever improves your quality of life.
Released: April 6, 2021
Released features this week: Traders can now add multiple versions of the same indicators to their charts, allowing a deeper analysis experience. We’ve also tidied up currency selection (such as your Portfolio currency) and implemented a new Global Currency Switcher. In the Chat, we’ve added a new option in the settings menu for URL unfurling and a User is typing notice in the Chat box.
Other updates include changes to some pages locations, such as removal and relocation (see “Other Updates” at the bottom).
Traders can now add multiple versions of the same indicators to their charts — for example, you can add one RSI indicator set to 14 periods and one set to 9 periods. Each indicator can be individually styled for more visual separation.
To add a new indicator of the same type, click the + button next to its name in the Analysis menu.
The Global Currency Switcher can be found by clicking the gear icon in the top right of all pages except the Charts page, where the fiat currency option in Chart Settings lives. This option replaces the currency selectors on Home, Assets, Exchanges and Portfolio. The currency you choose persists across these tools.
Changes to the Chat tool include:
New “User is typing” to the text box area in Chat.
New Chat setting to show/hide URL previews by default
The Asset Cards page has been removed — but you can always build a faster one with Cryptowatch Desktop.
“Cryptowatch” logo in the top-left of the Charts page redirects to the homepage.
Portfolio: Figures in the Quote column link to the Markets page if no direct market.
Released: March 16, 2021
Updates to the Portfolio page include Coinbase Pro support for the new Net Value Time Series (NVTS) tool and the re-introduction of the History Export features on Portfolio (Kraken and Coinbase trade history supported at this time).
On the Charts page, the Cryptowatch team added the ability to add alerts via the right-click context menus. Posting a link in the Chat now unfurls a preview of the URL.
Our last release saw the launch of the Net Value Time Series tool on the Portfolio page. This release includes added support for traders who have connected their Coinbase Pro accounts. Traders with Coinbase Pro and/or Kraken accounts connected to Cryptowatch can now see their Portfolio values on both exchanges plotted in the NVTS tool.
Read our new Guide to learn more about the new My Portfolio NVTS.
Traders can once again use the History Export feature to export trade history and ledger entries for the 2020 calendar year (Kraken and Coinbase history is supported). Keep in mind that a report does not indicate tax liability, and that consulting with an accountant is recommended whenever filing taxes.
Traders can now quickly add alerts by right-clicking at any level of the price chart or volume indicator. Right-clicking an existing alert removes it.
Login with email now supported (web only)
Descriptive error message when creating an account with an already-registered email address
Removed some trade feed trade filtering for parity with Desktop
Creating alerts disabled when out of Credits
Released: February 23, 2021
This week the Cryptowatch team issued a large update, including the new Net Value Time Series (NVTS) Portfolio visualization, pasting tweets to charts, customizable line styles (for analysis tools), and much more.
Information in the accounts page has been reordered and given improved functionality, the Volume Profile indicator now displays its loading status, traders entering the Chat can check nickname availability, and, finally, the Alerts panel has an improved UI as well as market links.
The Net Value Time Series (NVTS) Alpha version has been released — this new tool visualizes your Portfolio value over time, signals your best & worst performing assets, and displays your portfolio value as an OHLC bar. At this time the NVTS is only compatible with your Kraken portfolio/holdings.
Read the new Guide to learn more about the My Portfolio NVTS.
Cryptowatch traders can now paste tweets to the Charts page.
To paste a tweet:
Copy the URL of the individual tweet you want to paste
Flip to your Cryptowatch Charts page
Use your paste hotkeys (CTRL + V on Windows, Command + V on Mac) to paste the tweet
The tweet will automatically paste to the correct time on the Chart’s x-axis, and can be repositioned by clicking the top of the tweet bubble and dragging.
Tweets with images/video will omit the media and paste the text only.
To remove a tweet, right-click it and select Remove this drawing (tweet).
Traders can now customize the line styles of analysis tools and indicators on the Charts page. To adjust line styles:
Open the Analysis menu
Select an analysis tool to customize
Flip to the Style tab
Click the “line” box next to the color options
There are 25 options for line styles: 5 graphic styles (eg. dotted lines) and 5 line thickness options for each.
Traders can use the new Price Percentage Oscillator (PPO) by accessing it in the Analysis menu. The Price Percentage Oscillator is similar to the MACD indicator, but draws on percentage data rather than raw price information. This results in a smoother, more normalized momentum indicator.
Re-ordered Password Change, Email Change and Username Change fields.
Added a Password Confirmation field.
Unverified users can change their email without contacting support.
Added a load status indication — the volume profile bars are now overlaid with load status, which fills the bars right-to-left as the process completes.
Traders entering the chat can now check nickname availability.
The options to
Save/Cancel/Deletean alert are stickied to the bottom of the alert panel. Clicking on an individual alert reveals these options.Alerts listed in the panel now have direct links to their respective markets.
Released: January 26, 2021
In our last release (Jan. 12, 2021) Cryptowatch added FTX.US markets for charting and analysis, and this week FTX.US markets are fully integrated for trading. Traders chatting in the trollbox now have the ability to mute individual users, just in case it comes to that.
Traders can now connect their FTX.US accounts to Cryptowatch via the exchange keys page. Doing so enables trading and portfolio tracking for over 30 FTX.US markets.
Why argue when you can just mute? Traders can now take the high road in style by opting to mute users they’re tired of hearing. Hovering your cursor over a message in chat reveals an in-line menu icon on the right-hand side. Clicking the icon reveals the option to mute. Muting a user only hides their messages from you — other traders using chat can still see their messages.
Bugs affecting some users have been squashed:
Bollinger Band cross above upper band alert triggers prematurely
Slow Chart when using Stock to Flow overlay
Unable to create a new account with desktop
Alert settings now displays exchange name alongside exchange icon and market
Released: January 12, 2021
This week Cryptowatch added FTX.US markets for charting and analysis, a new right-click context menu to the charting interface and a custom range selector for the Volume Profile indicator. The new right-click menu on the Charts page is where you’ll find the Remove Last Drawing function, as well as new Show/Hide Drawings and Remove Analysis actions.
FTX.US is a US-regulated version of the exchange, featuring USD spot markets for many high-volume cryptocurrencies (including BTC). Traders can now use Cryptowatch’s advanced charting interface to analyze and speculate on FTX.US markets.
We’ve added new functionality to the charting interface and moved pre-existing actions into new right-click context menus. Right clicking on a price chart now opens options to Remove Last Drawing action, as well as the new Show/Hide Drawings and Remove Analysis actions. Right-clicking on the y-axis opens the option to remove nearby alerts.
Traders can now specify an exact time-range to feed into both the Volume at Price (VAP) and Time at Price (TAP) Volume Profile Indicators (options for indicators are found in the Analysis menu).
The Visible option is the default, automatic range that calculates based on visible candles. Choosing Display locks the volume profile at its current range, allowing you to move the chart without recalculating. Finally, custom ranges can be selected by either using the Set on Chart drawing tool or by inputting the start and end date & time.
This week we’ve added a new indicator to the Analysis menu — Psychological Line. This tool measures the amount of time that a market was “up” over an adjustable number of periods. In the image below, the Psychological Line indicator is displayed alongside the BTC bull run beginning in November 2020.
Optimized traffic for background chats
“Filled” option for analysis tools moved to style tab
Released: December 15, 2020
This week we’ve released major updates to the Portfolio page, including a new holdings heat map and donut chart to help you better visualize your held assets. We’ve also updated the chat pop-out to allow room switching. Mobile users can now use a search bar at the top of any Cryptowatch page to quickly find assets and markets.
The Portfolio page’s pie chart has been replaced with an interactive heatmap and donut chart that display your multi-exchange holdings.
The donut chart (left) shows the total number of assets in your portfolio (across all connected exchanges), the total value denominated by your Portfolio currency, as well as the 24-hour percent change of your Portfolio as a whole. Hovering your mouse over an asset block highlights its fractional portion of the donut chart on the left.
Asset blocks in the heatmap are sized according to the amount you hold, update to the current price of the asset, and show the 24-hour percent change. The 24-hour percent change also informs the color of the asset block — shades of green denote gains, greys show no change, and shades of red show losses over the past 24 hours.
Clicking an asset block opens a market for the asset on the exchange the funds are held on.
We’ve added a room switcher to the popout chat box, allowing you to change rooms from within the popout. You can find the room switcher at the top of the popup, top-left corner.
The mobile version of Cryptowat.ch has been updated to include a search bar to the top panel. This search bar functions just like the search bar on the web app — mobile users can now find assets, markets and exchanges from any page on Cryptowatch.
Released: December 1, 2020
This week Cryptowatch made improvements further boosting its performance and frame rate, made Charts page settings persistent across devices, added multiple upgrades to Chat, and added the Chaikin Money Flow indicator to the analysis menu.
We’ve also added Vietnamese to our supported languages — see Switching languages in Guides.
Another big performance upgrade has improved Cryptowatch’s Charts page frame rate, particularly for 4K resolution monitors. The chart below shows the amount of users getting less than 30 fps on the Charts page, and visualizes the effect of our recent performance updates:
Now you can change your font size, enable sound notifications and include message timestamps in any room in the Trollbox. The Trollbox’s main room has been renamed to General, with an extra special Brainlet room added to the Chat as well. Room activity monitors are a little more helpful now as well.
Chart settings and Technical Analysis indicators now persist across devices. When you open Cryptowatch on another device, your TA indicators, overlays, chart settings, and some trading settings will remain intact. Chart settings include all settings in the Analysis, Chart Style and Drawing menus.
alerts: snap to round numbers
chart: candle scale, spacing between candles, candle width
drawing: current tool
drawing: extrapolate
drawing snap
drawing: snap threshold
grid: show
grid: style
input: scroll wheel sensitivity
input: scroll x (true/false)
input: scroll y (true/false)
price chart: padding (top and bottom)
price chart: plot style (candlestick, mountain, etc.)
display: show events ticker
display: show history scroller
trading: show order line
trading: show positions
trading: show orders
trading: show trades
y-axis: show depth chart
y-axis: type (percentage, logarithmic, etc.)
We’ve added a new indicator to the Analysis menu — Chaikin Money Flow. This indicator measures accumulation vs distribution (buying vs selling pressure, respectively). It looks at price relative to highs and lows over a lookback period, with volume varying the influence of each price point in the calculation.
Released: November 17, 2020
This week saw a very big release from the Cryptowatch team. This week the Cryptowatch team revamped our homepage design, enabled trading on FTX markets, added Uniswap V2 charts, added the new TRIX indicator, and made a series of improvements to the Portfolio, Trollbox, Alerts and Watchlist.
Our redesigned homepage features a new asset-tile view made up of the top 12 crypto assets by volume. Each asset tile contains the current price, 24 hour percent change in price, 24 hour volume and a right-to-left price sparkline. The tile’s background and sparkline are green (or your theme’s up-color) when the asset price is higher than it was 24 hours ago and red (or your down-color) when the price is lower.
Cryptowatch now features trading on FTX markets and FTX Portfolio integration. Traders can use Cryptowatch to submit trades to over 400 FTX markets and track their accounts alongside other major exchanges.
Traders can now watch and analyze real-time Uniswap V2 markets on both cryptowat.ch and Cryptowatch Desktop.
We’ve added the TRIX (Triple Exponential Average) indicator to the Analysis menu. This indicator is similar to a MACD, but with a smoother line less affected by varying price action. TRIX filters out market noise and tends to lead the trend rather than lag behind it.
Can now sort trade history by side (buy or sell)
New activity monitor bars in the trollbox
New infobot — type !price then the asset pair to pull price data. Eg.
!price BTCUSD
New Bollinger Bands TA Alerts.
Can now reorder your utility belt watchlist by: exchange, asset, or a completely custom order.
Released: November 3, 2020
This week the Cryptowatch team added chat rooms to the Trollbox, released a new chart overlay (VWMA), updated the trading form with a new leverage slider, improved the movement performance on the Charts page and updated our Terms & Conditions.
We’ve added new chatrooms to the Trollbox for the very first time this week. The new rooms are Politics and Bugs/Features, plus the catch-all Trollbox room.
The Volume Weighted Moving Average (VWMA) overlay is a moving average line with more significance afforded to periods of higher trading volume. When trading volume increases, the VWMA approaches the price level. As trading volume decreases, the VWMA moves less radically.
The leverage selector in the trading form has been replaced with a new leverage slider. You can now click and drag the slider to select your preferred leverage amount when opening new positions.
Moving price charts by clicking and dragging has been changed to by-pixel, rather than by-candle, improving the feel and general performance. This is most noticeable when zoomed-in to only a few candles, but affects all zoom levels of the Charts view.
The gif below showcases the new by-pixel movement, but make sure to see for yourself on the Charts page.
Cryptowatch has updated its Terms & Conditions to reflect our new payment model and other recent changes to the platform. See the updated version here.
Released: October 20, 2020
This week Cryptowatch released a massive performance improvement, the Cryptowatch Desktop release, and two new indicators: Volume Profile Time at Price and Average Directional Movement Index Rating (ADXR).
Changes the Cryptowatch team made this week resulted in a massive improvement of the Charts page’s performance, reducing CPU use by 50%.
The Performance Throttle found in the Charts page settings menu now adjusts rendering and stream updates for the order book, live trades feed, and price chart.
This week saw the release of Cryptowatch Desktop, now available for all signed-in Cryptowatch users. The new native app is leaner on CPU resources and features new and time-tested market data tools. Download Desktop now to start making your own fully-customizable data dashboards. You can read the Cryptowatch Desktop Guide here.
You can read testimonials about Cryptowatch Desktop and more on our blog.
A new, more efficient version of Cryptowatch’s Volume Profile Indicator was released this week. The Volume Profile - Time at Price indicator differs from the Volume at Price indicator by measuring the length of time an asset’s value spends at observable price levels based on weighted averaging across each candle’s range. The Volume at Price indicator shows the traded volume broken up by actual buy vs. sell trade volume, at unique price levels.
The Time at Price calculation requires less computational power, making the Time at Price indicator a faster performer than Volume at Price, though TAP may not be deemed to be as accurate a representation of real market action.
Cryptowatch added another new indicator to the Analysis menu - the Average Directional Movement Index Rating (ADXR). The ADXR measures trend strength — larger values indicate greater strength in the current trend direction — and whether that trend is gaining or declining.
Released: October 6, 2020
This week Cryptowatch released performance improvements to the trade panel, Technical Analysis (TA) alerts panel, and the Asset Card view of the Markets page.
Updating Poloniex orders to include post-only status is fixed
Advanced options are always applied when using the Replace Order function
Fixed error preventing order placement on Coinbase Pro markets
Fixed instance where selecting EMA alerts caused interval to change
Fixed TA alerts issue preventing alerts when selecting 1 week (1W) periods with week start on Monday
Fixed real-time updates of market data on Asset Card view of the Markets page
Released: September 22, 2020
Cryptowatch released a pair of new analysis tools this week: Volume Profile overlay and Williams %R indicator. We’ve also included a new type of TA alert — EMA alerts. Kraken Terminal users will also notice a lean version of the Utility Belt is featured on the platform, which includes your watchlist and the new alerts tool.
The volume profile overlay was released for all signed-in Cryptowatch accounts this week. The volume profile overlay shows trading activity over the visible chart span, showing significant price levels directly on the chart. Volume levels are separated by buy and sell levels, indicated by the up & down colors of your selected theme.
With the crosshair tool selected (default tool), hover over any bar in the volume profile for a detailed readout in the top-left area of the price chart.
Also known as the Williams Percent Range, this momentum indicator shows overbought and oversold levels based on an asset’s price versus the high-low range over a given period. The default range for this indicator is 14 periods.
A new addition to the TA alerts type is our EMA (Exponential Moving Average) cross alert, accessed via the Alerts panel in the Utility Belt.
This alert type behaves similarly to the SMA alert: input the chart interval, the number of look-back periods, and the OHLC data point of the EMA. Then set the alert to be notified when the price crosses above or below the EMA line determined by those inputs.
If you’re viewing a chart with the EMA overlay, reference the chart interval and the look-back periods of the particular EMA line you want to be notified of to get the input information (found in the analysis menu).
Released: September 10, 2020
Clicking on the price chart to set the price in the order ticket now requires <Shift> key to be held down when clicking. This was added to prevent accidental click triggering this behavior.
Released: September 8, 2020
This week Cryptowatch launched its new pricing structure — Cryptowatch Credits. Instead of upgrading your subscription to unlock features, you can now pay for the features you want, on-demand. Credits can be earned by completing the Onboarding list, or bought with bitcoin or a credit card. All of the core functions of Cryptowatch — trading, portfolio, charts and chat — remain completely free.
A new overlay has also been added to the Analysis menu — Donchian channels. This overlay plots the high and low prices for an asset over a given period, and is useful for signalling trends and ranges for day traders.
Cryptowatch has moved away from subscriptions to a more flexible pricing model — Cryptowatch Credits. In this system, you keep a balance of Credits in your account and pay for features only as you require them. All of the core functions of Cryptowatch — trading, portfolio, charts and chat — remain completely free.
Accounts with open subscriptions had the cost of those subscriptions converted into a Credits balance upon release. You can pay for more Credits with bitcoin or credit card. Clients with a credit card attached to their account can opt into automatic refills when their Credits balance is low.
Credits are currently used to pay for SMS alerts, Rest- and Web Socket-API connectivity, and extensibility features like Zapier triggers.
Your Credits balance is always visible in the top-right of the screen, next to your account icon. Check out the Credits and Billing page to learn more.
The Market Data REST API page has been updated with new pricing information. Anonymous users are now allotted up to 10 credits worth of API requests via the REST API. Clients with billing information in their account can purchase credits to increase their limits.
Donchian Channels (a.k.a. Price Channels) is a new overlay in the Analysis menu that plots high and low prices over a determined period of time. The default period is 20 bars, which can be edited in the Inputs tab when Donchian Channels is selected. This overlay works well on all time periods (from 1 minute (1M) to 1 Week (1W). It does not factor the current bar into its calculation.
Released: August 25, 2020
Following Cryptowatch’s brand updates is a redesign of the interface itself. This week we released the Utility Belt — a persistent side bar that expands into popular tools like the Chat, Watchlist and Alerts systems (among others).
This redesign also includes an update to the top bar, including a new outboard Themes panel that, when set to the Standard theme, enables easy light/dark mode toggling.
The analysis menu has a new addition in the Least Squares Moving Average overlay. This moving average line projects forward, anticipating a future value, and generates trend signals at crossover points.
On top of all that, we’ve made some performance improvements to the Charts and Portfolio pages.
The Utility Belt let’s you see the tools you want when you want to, without cluttering the rest of the interface. The Utility Belt currently contains redesigned Watchlist, Alerts, Trollbox, CLI, Onboarding and Changelog panels, as well as a button to expand the Trading panel when on the Charts page.
In addition to the Utility, the redesign includes the following changes: a new “My Account” icon, Portfolio button location and icon, API Access moved to Account menu.
Part of Cryptowatch’s redesign includes an updated top bar, with new locations for the Portfolio and Theme buttons. When Cryptowatch is set to the Standard theme, the Theme button converts to a Light/Dark mode toggle switch.
The Least Squares Moving Average line calculates a least squares regression over ‘n’ bars and projects forward an anticipated current value. This tool generates signals for bullish and bearish trends when the price deviates from the line.
Orders to market bar on the Portfolio page: all orders on multiple pages are included in the bar
Logarithmic y-axis scale improved for precise, small value markets (eg. /BTC and /ETH markets)
Released: August 11, 2020
Cryptowatch has updated its branding, including a new logo (inspired by our classic “C”) and two new fonts, giving the site a fresh new look.
Included in this release is an announcement and early registration for Cryptowatch Desktop, the native Cryptowatch app that lets you customize a multi-chart layout (and more). Registered users can submit their email to be notified for the release of Cryptowatch Desktop.
We’ve also included a new tool in the analysis menu, the Linear Regression overlay. Linear Regression can help pinpoint entry and exit points, including stop loss levels.
In another update to our analysis toolset, you can now adjust the Overbought and Oversold levels for the RSI (Relative Strength Index).
Cryptowatch has updated its logo, reminiscent of our classic “C”, now composed of up & down bars that will match any theme applied from the Themes menu. We’ve also updated our themes menu with new light and dark modes and updated our standard theme. Additionally, Cryptowatch is sporting new font sets: DM Sans and Iosevka Custom.
Components of the trading panel (and more) have been updated as well with a fresh new look, as well as the menus for drawing tools. For a run-down of our branding changes see our twitter thread.
Go to the Desktop tab on Cryptowatch and enter your email to join our mailing list for the release of Cryptowatch Desktop. The new native app from Cryptowatch includes multi-chart capability and customizable layouts that you can build from scratch.
The Linear Regression overlay helps with channel-trading techniques. This overlay plots a High, Low, and Median line over a trend that can help you to determine entry and exit points, including where to place your stop loss. You can find the Linear Regression overlay in the Analysis menu on the Charts page.
The RSI (Relative Strength Index) indicator now has further customization options, allowing you to adjust the levels it recognizes as overbought and oversold.
Released: July 28, 2020
Cryptowatch has launched its first TA (Technical Analysis) alert type — SMA price crosses. You can now have an alert trigger when an SMA line crosses above or below the current price.
We’ve also updated the trading panel. Now you can collapse (and expand) the conditional close section of the trading form. The Total field of the conditional close section is now directly editable, too.
In the Analysis menu, we’ve added the new Weighted Moving Average indicator (WMA). The WMA reacts faster to recent price changes than an Exponential or Simple moving average (EMA, SMA).
On the Correlations page, a graph of historical correlation changes is now in the background of each cell.
The alert triggers when the SMA line (programmed using the alert options) crosses above or below the current price. To learn more, check out our Guide: How to set TA alerts.
You can now fill out a conditional close (in markets where the option is available) and collapse that section of the form, tidying up the view. A summary of the conditional close order is still visible. Click “Conditional Close” again to expand the section.
We’ve also made the Total field editable in the Conditional close section of the trade panel.
We’ve added the Weighted Moving Average (WMA) overlay to the Analysis menu. The WMA line adds weight to each data point based on its relation to the current price. This makes it more reactive to recent price changes than other moving average lines, like the SMA and EMA. The results are sharper peaks and troughs and, potentially, earlier trend signals.
The background of each cell in the Correlations page now displays the rolling correlation over time. The correlations page tracks how closely assets match each other in price action (eg. Asset 1 goes up, so does Asset 2).
Released: July 14, 2020
Deribit perpetual futures and expiring futures (quarterly) for Bitcoin and Ethereum can now be watched on Cryptowatch.
We’ve added the Z-score analysis tool, available in the Analysis menu on the Charts page. This tool measures the distance in price from a mean value, stated in terms of standard deviations.
Lastly, you can now share themes in chat. Sending a theme in chat lets other traders copy or instantly apply the theme.
Cryptowatch charts of Deribit perpetual futures and expiring futures (quarterly) for Bitcoin and Ethereum are now available to view. Check out Deribit's BTC/USD Perpetual Futures market.
The Z-Score indicator measures the distance in price from a mean value, stated in terms of standard deviations. Select it from the Analysis menu, and use the “More info” button there to learn more about how to use Z-score.
Traders can now send their color themes to each other in the trollbox. To send a theme, open the settings menu (cogwheel, top-right of the page), select the theme to share, click “Copy”, then paste it in the chat box. Hit send, and everyone in the chat can choose to copy your theme or apply it to their terminal immediately.
Released: June 30, 2020
Cryptowatch has made trading available for free to all users, including users who make a free account as of this release.
You can now trade for free on 6 supported exchanges (with more to come) and monitor your trading portfolio — including open orders and positions across each exchange — all from a single terminal.
Cryptowatch has also repaired bugs concerning staking balances in Portfolio, the trading form incorrectly showing a zero (0) balance, and the order marker for trailing stops.
Trading is now free to all new and existing Cryptowatch accounts. This was previously $15 per month as part of our Basic plan. Free trading is now supported on the following exchanges:
Kraken
Binance
Bitfinex
Coinbase Pro
Bitstamp
Poloniex
In addition to trading for free, users can visualize their open orders and past trades directly on the charts:
Portfolio tools such as Trades, Orders, Positions, and History Export are available for free as well for each trading-supported exchange:
Users can also enjoy free, in-browser alerting for price, volume, and order fills:
Staking balances are now viewable in Portfolio
Trading form will no longer show a zero (0) balance before receiving a balances update from the exchange’s API
Trailing Stop order markers now viewable on the y-axis of applicable charts.
Released: June 16, 2020
Cryptowatch has added the option to see a dotted line originating from your new orders (indicated by a dot on the chart’s y-axis) extending into the price chart itself. This option can be enabled in the settings menu, under My Activity.
In the Portfolio tab, under Trade History, new orders will now contain fee information in the trade summary.
The chat box is now available to users on mobile devices.
To see a dotted line extending from your pending orders into the price chart: open the settings menu, scroll to My Activity, and select the option Show Order Line While Placing New Order:
Selecting this option enables a dotted line extending from your new order’s icon on the y-axis of the price chart into the price chart itself. In the image below, you can see a red dotted line extending left from a new sell order’s icon on the right:
Additionally, you can now click the price chart to select a price for new orders. Use the crosshair tool and click anywhere on the price chart:
We’ve added fee information to the Portfolio trades summaries. To view a trade summary, navigate to Trades History on the Portfolio tab. Only new trades (trades taking place after this update) will have fee information available:
Cryptowatch users can now access the Trollbox from their mobile devices at https://cryptowat.ch/chat
Released: June 2, 2020
Cryptowatch has introduced advanced order types to Kraken and Bitfinex markets including: Stop Loss Limit & Take Profit Limit (Kraken) and Stop Loss, Stop Loss Limit, and Trailing Stop Loss (Bitfinex).
We have also updated sorting in the market navigator.
Cryptowatch now supports advanced order types available on Kraken and Bitfinex.
Kraken markets now have Stop Loss Limit and Take Profit Limit orders available:
Bitfinex traders can now submit Stop Loss, Stop Loss Limit, and Trailing Stop orders:
The Market Navigator (on the Charts page, top-left of the price chart) now extends whichever sorting style you’ve picked to the markets within each of the asset groups:
Released: May 19, 2020
Cryptowatch has introduced margin trading for all Bitfinex pairs that support leverage. We've updated our alerts service, adding a Cancel all feature that lets you clear alerts across all markets. On our COVID-19 tracker, you can now sort all data by country, view the chart with either a linear or logarithmic axis, and switch between daily and total data.
The Cryptowatch Marketing team also recently posted a comprehensive reading list from our very own The Dude, who spent over a decade yelling and screaming in the NYMEX and COMEX trading pits, as well as an interview with @lowstrife and a report on Bitcoin spot market growth.
Bitfinex margin pairs now have their available leverage options in the trading form:
We’ve also added a refresh button in the top-right of the trading form that will re-synchronize Cryptowatch to the market’s exchange. The trade settings menu is also conveniently relocated to the top-right corner of the trading form as well:
Cryptowatch now supports several additional order options for all Kraken markets.
Use "Post Limit" for limit orders
Set custom start times for your orders
Select your fee currency for all Kraken markets which support that selection on Kraken.com’s interface
You can now view more detailed data on the COVID-19 page. The changes we’ve implemented are as follows:
Added log scale to the COVID-19 chart
Tracker can now be sorted by country, or as aggregated values (all COVID-19 data)
Refreshing the page defaults to the daily view
Now you can change the compared asset from BTC to:
ETH
USDT
XTZ
XRP
BCH
We’ve added a Cancel all button to the alerts menu and the trade-settings menu so you can clean your slate quickly and easily:
In the markets navigator, you can now sort markets by:
Performance
Number of Pairs
Alphabetical order
Volume
Each of these sorting parameters can be listed in ascending or descending value using the button left of the drop-down menu:
Released: April 22, 2020
Cryptowatch has added live market trading data from crypto derivatives exchange FTX. New markets added to the Cryptowatch trading terminal include the popular BTC-PERP and US-presidential prediction markets like TRUMP and BIDEN.
The full list of markets added can be found here, including:
Perpetual and Quarterly futures contracts
Spot markets
Leveraged Tokens: 3X Long (BULL), 3X Short (BEAR), 1X Short (HEDGE), and 0.5X Long (HALF)
2020 US Presidential Prediction markets
Read the launch announcement on the Cryptowatch Blog.
Here's a chart for the ALT Index Perpetual Futures contract on FTX.
A new Bitcoin-related indicator has now gone live on all BTC/USD markets. We will publish an update about it on Thursday. If you find it in the meantime, tweet it at us @cryptowat_ch.
Update 4/23/2020
We launched a Stock to Flow indicator on all BTCUSD charts.
Released: April 7, 2020
We’ve improved our chart snapshot (
Normally, our charts are truncated at 500 candles. However, for 1 day (1D), 3 day (3D), and 1 week (1W) charts, you can now scroll back to the beginning of that market’s history. Here’s Bitstamp BTCUSD on the 1 day interval all the way back in 2013.
You can now edit the Total field in our trade ticket. This was a highly requested feature that improves the usability of our trade ticket - thank you to those who reached out about it. When you edit the Quantity, Price, or Total fields, one field that will change is market with an 
Now you can visualize how close all of your orders are to their fill price, across exchanges, with this new bar in the Orders tab of your Portfolio.
We also added a Quantity USD field into the Positions table of your Portfolio. This makes it easier to see the size of your positions side by side, against each other.
Order Percent to Fill
Quantity USD in Portfolio Positions Tab
You can now access and place alerts from any page on the interface with the alerts horn 
We added a tracker for total and daily COVID-19 data against the Bitcoin price - check it out here.
We continue to grow our library of custom emojis with these additions:
:virus:
:tp:
:purell:
:stonks:
:money_printer:
:wsb:
:tendies:
:ric_flair:
Released: March 10, 2020
Cryptowatch has paid plans to unlock trading and portfolio upgrades, access to APIs and more. You've been asking to pay in Bitcoin, so we've enabled it. From your account's Subscription page, you can now pay for your plan in Bitcoin via BTCPay Server. The option also exists when you create a new account.
You can now see all your alerts, across markets, in the alerts dropdown from any trading terminal page. You can also create, modify, and cancel them from here. To learn more about how alerts work on Cryptowatch, check out our Guides.
Released: February 25, 2020
You can now download ledgers of your 2019 transaction history from Kraken, Coinbase Pro, Binance, and Bitfinex directly from the History Export tab of your portfolio in Cryptowatch. Downloadable as CSV files, these ledgers can be used to help with tax reporting, trade style analysis, or value at risk (VaR) calculations.
In order to get your downloads, you will need to have the correct permissions set for your exchanges’ API keys so Cryptowatch can download and format the data. Each export will have the fields you need to break down each transaction on your account: timestamp, type (fee, income, deposit, withdrawal, buy, sell), asset, quantity, value, transaction ID and even the onchain transaction ID if relevant and the exchange supports that info.
Requests may take up to 24 hours to prepare - we will email you when your report is ready.
Now, in addition to setting alerts by clicking on the y-axis of the price and volume charts, you can set and edit alerts in a modal. We also added a new method of alert delivery: email.
We’ve opened up the trollbox to everyone with a free Cryptowatch account. Pick your username carefully, be civil, and try to enjoy each others’ company. The trollbox is at the bottom right hand side of Cryptowatch - this icon:
Released: February 4, 2020
We’re upgrading our Portfolio to give you a quick and comprehensive overview of your holdings and positions across exchanges. That’s why we added a % to Market column in Portfolio showing how close your order price is to the market price. Sort all your orders on this column to see your most pressing orders in real time. You need a Cryptowatch Basic account to see orders in Portfolio - 2 week trial is free.
In the vein of Portfolio upgrades, you can now see how all your positions across exchanges are doing in real-time. Time your trip to the Lambo dealership just right with this one.
We’ve added a Python SDK to our real-time streaming Websocket API. We know the popularity of Python and chose to release this next in response to the requests from the community. Here's the example code on our Github (linked above) printing out big movers on Kraken.
Released: January 14, 2020
The Awesome Oscillator is a momentum indicator from trader Bill Williams that uses 34 bar and 5 bar moving averages of mean candle prices to indicate when a market may be turning. For more information on the Awesome Oscillator’s formations, see our blog post.
To complement our recently released Time Cycles tool, you can now visualize time cycles as vertical dashed lines on your charts. Just select the Cycles category of drawing tools, then Vertical.
If you have a number of orders in place across exchanges and things are getting wild, you can cancel all of them with a single click from the Orders tab of Portfolio.
We’ve consolidated drawing tools in to categories, and added more descriptive labels to make it easier to find and experiment with new tools. We also added the hotkey in parentheses next to each drawing tool so you can speed up your selecting.
You can now use your arrow keys and Enter to navigate through and select emojis in chat.
