Cryptocurrency monitoring

1. How crypto monitoring works

The engine reads market data from major exchanges, the same venues whose names appear in the ticker band at the top of this site, and builds per-asset readings from the stream: trend direction and strength, the current volatility regime, and notable events such as large moves, funding shifts and liquidity changes. Because crypto never closes, the readings are built on a rolling basis rather than at a daily cut-off.

Your exchange account connects read-only. The engine sees balances and market information; it cannot place an order, withdraw funds or change a setting. Your crypto stays wherever you chose to hold it.

Cross-venue data is checked against each other before a reading is built. A price spike visible at one exchange but nowhere else is treated as a data quality question, not a market event, and the reading says so rather than presenting a glitch as news. In a market that trades continuously, telling the difference between a real move and a bad print is half of the job.

2. Which assets are covered

Every plan covers the major pairs: Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana against the US dollar, plus the principal sterling cross for UK users. Advanced adds mid-cap assets with sufficient liquidity for reliable readings, and Premium extends the watchlist to the full universe the engine monitors. Coverage lists are visible in the dashboard before you commit to a plan, and your account manager can confirm whether a specific asset you follow is included.

We deliberately exclude assets whose trading is too thin for honest readings. A price that moves because one participant blinked is not information, and presenting it as analysis would be decoration, not service.

3. Who crypto monitoring suits

It suits the investor who holds crypto long term and wants fewer, better moments of attention instead of compulsive chart-checking; the trader who follows several pairs and wants the scanning lifted; and the curious newcomer who wants to observe how these markets actually behave before committing money. Because the readings are continuous, shift workers and anyone whose day is not organised around market hours gets particular value.

It does not suit someone seeking a shortcut. Crypto is the most volatile asset class the platform covers, and the risk disclosure applies to every pound committed here with full force.

4. Getting started

Register on this page; your account manager calls within 24 hours to activate the account and arrange verification. Connect your exchange with a read-only key, choose a short starting watchlist, and spend the first week watching readings evolve before you fund positions. The Basic minimum of £250 exists so that learning is cheap and mistakes are small.

5. The readings in detail

Trend readings distinguish direction from strength across intraday, weekly and monthly views, so a sharp twelve-hour move is not mistaken for a change in regime. Volatility readings place the current swings in the context of the asset's recent behaviour, which for crypto is the single most decision-relevant number: the same position size that was cautious last month can be reckless at doubled volatility. Event readings capture what the market did around listing news, large transfers, funding changes and macro releases, with timestamps in UK time.

Relationship readings add the cross-asset view: which of your assets are currently moving together, how BTC's regime colours the mid-caps on your list, and where sterling crosses sit against their dollar counterparts. For UK users this last point is practical, since a position's sterling value can move on the currency even when the dollar price stands still.

Alerts are per-asset and per-condition, and they reach you by email. The design goal is fewer interruptions with more meaning, not a phone that buzzes with every 2 per cent wiggle.

6. Around-the-clock markets and what that means for you

Continuous trading removes the overnight gap that resets share markets, but it concentrates risk differently: a weekend can move a position as much as a fortnight of weekdays. Monitoring exists precisely for this asymmetry. The engine keeps the watch while you sleep, and the morning summary tells you what happened in order of importance rather than in order of arrival.

Weekends and holidays deserve explicit planning. UK bank holidays thin the crypto market's usual liquidity as institutional desks step away, and thin liquidity exaggerates moves in both directions. The calendar view marks these windows in advance so that holding size through them is a decision made on Tuesday, not a surprise discovered on Easter Monday.

Liquidations cascade: when heavily leveraged positions are forced closed, their closing becomes new selling pressure, which forces more closures. The engine cannot predict a cascade, but its event readings show the aftermath in ordered form, which is when level heads are hardest to keep and most valuable.

7. Risk management for crypto

Position sizing is the whole game in a volatile asset class. Decide your total crypto allocation as a percentage of investable money, size individual positions against the volatility reading rather than against hope, and never let a single asset grow to where its worst week would change your behaviour. The risk disclosure describes crypto-specific hazards in full, including liquidity gaps and exchange failure, which no analysis engine offsets.

Where you hold matters as much as what you hold. Splitting balances across more than one established venue limits the damage of any single institution failing, and keeping only the balance a strategy actively needs on exchange keeps the exposure bounded. These are ordinary prudence in an asset class where the equivalent of a bank run can complete in an afternoon.

Finally, remember that readings are descriptive. A trend reading says what has been happening, not what the next participant will pay, and crypto's history is a long argument against treating any trend as permanent.

8. What it costs

Crypto monitoring is included in every plan: Basic £19 per month from a £250 deposit, Advanced £45 from £1,500, Premium £95 from £5,000. Deposits by Faster Payments, cards and mobile wallets are free and instant; withdrawals are free with a £20 minimum. Execution costs applied by your own exchange remain between you and that exchange; the full schedule is on the fees page.

9. Common questions

Do you hold my crypto? No. Your assets stay in your own exchange account or wallet; the connection is read-only.

Does the engine trade for me? No. It organises information; every decision and every execution remains yours.

Can I follow sterling pairs? Yes, the principal sterling cross is covered on every plan, alongside the USD majors the global market actually prices against.

What about smaller tokens? Only assets with sufficient liquidity and data quality are covered, and the exclusions are deliberate. A token whose price exists because two participants trade it cannot be honestly analysed, and we would rather show a shorter list than a decorated one.

Does monitoring work while I am offline? Yes, the engine runs continuously regardless of whether you are signed in; your alerts and the next summary reflect everything that happened while you were away.

New to the asset class itself? The crypto basics page explains what these assets are without assuming prior knowledge, and your account manager is happy to walk through it on a call.