Volatility & risk
This page is one row per asset and one column per risk measure. It answers a single question — how much does this asset move, and how does that compare? — and it answers it several different ways, because "risky" means more than one thing.
Every figure here describes what price has already done. Nothing on this page is a forecast, and nothing on it is a recommendation to buy or sell anything.
The universe
The table covers the 100 largest assets by market cap that have an active Binance spot market, excluding stablecoins and tokenised funds. When an asset in that list leaves the exchange or drops out of the top 100, the list refills from rank 101 downward, so it always holds a hundred.
The Top 10 / Top 50 / Top 100 control narrows that list by market-cap rank. It cuts the table before anything else — before the sector filter, before the search, and before the pager — so "Top 10, DeFi" means the DeFi assets among the ten largest, not the ten largest DeFi assets.
The columns
Price and the movement flags
Price is CoinGecko's, in US dollars.
The four movement columns — 2h, 4h, 24h and 2d — each state the price change over that window, and each is tinted when the move reaches the size worth noticing over a window that short. The thresholds are in the column headings and rise with the window, because a 5% move in two hours and a 5% move in two days are not the same event.
The 24h figure comes from CoinGecko and is measured from right now. The 2h, 4h and 2d figures are computed from Binance hourly candles.
Volatility percentile
Where this asset's current 30-day volatility sits against its own last year, from 0 to 100. A reading of 95 means the asset is more volatile now than it was on 95% of the past year's days.
This is a comparison of an asset to itself, not to other assets, and it is the most misread column on the page. A high percentile does not mean an asset is volatile — it means it is unusually volatile for that asset. Bitcoin can sit in the 80th percentile while being one of the calmest assets in the table, and an asset that is always violent can sit in the 40th while being one of the wildest.
If you want to know which assets move most, sort by Vol 30d, which is an absolute annualised percentage. Use the percentile to spot what has changed.
The bar in the cell is the reading.
Needs a year of daily candles. Assets with less history show "—".
Max drawdown
The largest peak-to-trough fall in the closing price over the last 365 days, as a percentage. It is always zero or negative.
This is a one-year window, not an all-time figure — see "From ATH" for that.
From ATH
How far below its all-time high the asset is trading now, as a percentage. Always zero or negative. CoinGecko's figure, over the asset's whole recorded history.
Max drawdown and From ATH answer different questions: the first is the worst fall inside the last year, the second is the distance from the best price ever. An asset can be near its all-time high and still have had a severe drawdown in the last twelve months.
Volume spike
Today's trading volume divided by its own 30-day average. A reading of 1.00 is an ordinary day; 3.00 is three times normal volume. The cell is flagged at 2.00 and above.
Volume tells you how much conviction is behind a price move. It does not say which direction.
BTC beta and BTC correlation
Both are measured over 90 days of aligned daily returns against Bitcoin.
Beta is how much the asset moves for a given Bitcoin move. A beta of 1.5 means it has historically moved about one and a half times as far as Bitcoin, in the same direction. Bitcoin's own beta is exactly 1.
Correlation is how reliably it moves with Bitcoin, from -1 to 1. A correlation near 1 means the two move together almost every day; near 0 means Bitcoin's direction told you very little about this asset's.
The two are independent, and reading them together is the point. High beta with low correlation is an asset that moves a lot but not with Bitcoin; low beta with high correlation is one that tracks Bitcoin closely but in smaller steps.
Sorting, and where the blanks go
The table opens in market-cap order, the way other market tables do — not on a risk column. That is deliberate: no ordering is pre-selected for you, and the default cannot be mistaken for a ranking of risk.
Every column sorts, in both directions, and the sort is applied across the whole filtered table — not just the page you are looking at.
Two rules govern where empty cells end up, and both exist so a sorted table never opens on a wall of dashes:
- An asset the engine could not measure at all sorts last, whichever direction you choose. Its price and 24h move are still shown, because those are real; its risk columns read "—".
- A single missing value in the sorted column sorts last among the measured rows, again in both directions. An asset with no beta is not the asset with the lowest beta.
Ties are broken by market-cap rank and then by symbol, so the order is stable: paging through the table cannot show you the same row twice or skip one.
Why a cell can be empty
A dash means the measure could not be computed, never that it is zero. Each measure needs a minimum amount of history:
| Measure | Needs |
|---|---|
| 2h / 4h / 2d change | recent hourly candles |
| Volatility percentile | 365 daily candles |
| Max drawdown | 90 daily candles |
| BTC beta / correlation | 60 aligned daily returns |
| Volume spike | 30 daily candles |
A newly listed asset will fill these in as its history accumulates. The footnote under the table states how many of the rows on screen could be measured.
Colour
The bar in the volatility percentile column is shaded on a four-step ramp by annualised 30-day volatility: under 45%, under 75%, under 110%, and above. This ramp is presentational — it exists to make the ladder scannable — and it is the only classification on this page that is not a measured value in its own right.
Sources
Prices, market cap, the 24h change and the distance from the all-time high come from CoinGecko. Every other measure is computed from Binance spot candles.