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Liquidity Slippage Bid Percentage
Price slippage is the difference between the quoted price of an asset and the execution price of a market order.
Name | MetricID | Category | Subcategory | Type | Unit | Interval |
Liquidity Slippage Percentage, $1K Bid | liquidity_slippage_1K_bid_percent | Liquidity | Slippage | Ratio | Dimensionless | 1h |
Liquidity Slippage Percentage, $5K Bid | liquidity_slippage_5K_bid_percent | Liquidity | Slippage | Ratio | Dimensionless | 1h |
Liquidity Slippage Percentage, $10K Bid | liquidity_slippage_10K_bid_percent | Liquidity | Slippage | Ratio | Dimensionless | 1h |
Liquidity Slippage Percentage, $50K Bid | liquidity_slippage_50K_bid_percent | Liquidity | Slippage | Ratio | Dimensionless | 1h |
Liquidity Slippage Percentage, $100K Bid | liquidity_slippage_100K_bid_percent | Liquidity | Slippage | Ratio | Dimensionless | 1h |
Liquidity Slippage Percentage, $1M Bid | liquidity_slippage_1M_bid_percent | Liquidity | Slippage | Ratio | Dimensionless | 1h |
Price slippage is the difference, often represented as a percentage, between the quoted price of an asset and the execution price of a market order. There can be many causes for slippage, but the primary cause is the size of a trade with respect to the composition of the limit orderbook. The bid slippage metrics represent the price slippage of a sell order. And the ask slippage metrics represent the price slippage of a buy order.
Let’s say an investor wishes to purchase 1 BTC at the best ask price of $25,000 and they submit a market order. The top of the order book has a sell order at this price for 0.25 BTC, so .25 BTC is purchased at $25,000 per BTC. The next order in the orderbook is for 0.5 BTC, but at a price of $25,250. This is executed and 0.5 BTC is purchased at $25,250 per BTC. 0.75 BTC has now been purchased, and 0.25 BTC remain. The investor completes his order at the next offer in the orderbook, 0.5 BTC for $25,500. As only 0.25 BTC are needed to complete the 1 BTC purchase, the investor fills 0.25 BTC at the price of $25,500 per BTC. The effective execution price of this purchase is the average price of the individual orders, weighted by quantity:
The slippage is the percentage difference in the market price and this execution price:
So this hypothetical purchase of 1 BTC incurred 1% slippage. If the trade size was different, then the slippage would change; that is, slippage is dependent on order size.
A sample of the liquidity slippage percentage for a $100K sell order on the
coinbase-btc-usd-spot market is shown below:{
"data" : [ {
"market" : "coinbase-btc-usd-spot",
"time" : "2023-05-04T20:00:00.000000000Z",
"liquidity_slippage_100K_bid_percent" : "0.0302420889601772"
}, {
"market" : "coinbase-btc-usd-spot",
"time" : "2023-05-04T21:00:00.000000000Z",
"liquidity_slippage_100K_bid_percent" : "0.018658001599947585"
}, {
"market" : "coinbase-btc-usd-spot",
"time" : "2023-05-04T22:00:00.000000000Z",
"liquidity_slippage_100K_bid_percent" : "0.02975123391334869"
}, {
"market" : "coinbase-btc-usd-spot",
"time" : "2023-05-04T23:00:00.000000000Z",
"liquidity_slippage_100K_bid_percent" : "0.019856484825922595"
}, {
"market" : "coinbase-btc-usd-spot",
"time" : "2023-05-05T00:00:00.000000000Z",
"liquidity_slippage_100K_bid_percent" : "0.025194922755210136"
} ]
}
market: The id of the markets.time: The time in ISO 8601 date-time format.liquidity_slippage_100K_bid_percent: The percent slippage of a $100K sell order executed at this time in this market.
- Release Version. Market Data Feed v2.8 on May 2023.
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