Cryptobubbles

Cryptobubbles combines customizable bubble charts with crypto price, market cap, and volume data

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Cryptobubbles compares cryptocurrency price changes through interactive bubbles with configurable sizes, colors, and labels. Each bubble represents an asset, and its appearance follows the selected metrics. Timeframe views show performance over different periods, while individual coin views provide price charts and market statistics. Custom configurations, watchlists, and sortable lists support different comparisons. Reading the percentage alongside its period and the bubble's size setting helps distinguish recent movement from market value or trading activity.

Market scanning, precise sorting, and coin-level detail

The chart, sortable list, and coin detail view answer different questions about the same assets. One emphasizes visual patterns, another orders numerical values, and the last gives a particular asset more context.

A visual scan of the selected market

The bubble view brings differences between visible assets into one display: performance settings compare gains and losses across the chosen period, while market-cap and volume settings emphasize other dimensions whose meaning follows the active metric.

Numerical ordering in the list view

Sortable rows help establish which visible assets lead on a particular measure. Price, performance, market cap, and trading volume describe different rankings. Numerical ordering is useful when several bubbles look similar or a crowded display makes visual size comparisons difficult.

Detail for an individual asset

Opening a coin gives access to its statistics and price chart. Those details add context that a compact bubble label can't hold. They also keep an unusually large movement tied to the correct asset, period, and unit, without treating its prominence as an explanation of the move.

Price change, market cap, and volume measure different things

A price, a capitalization figure, and a turnover figure describe different aspects of an asset. Keeping their meanings separate prevents a colorful market display from turning distinct measurements into one impression of strength.

Price and percentage performance

Price expresses the value of one asset unit in the selected quote currency. Percentage performance measures its change from an earlier price. A low unit price says little about total market value because assets have different circulating supplies. Likewise, a large percentage gain measures movement relative to a starting value.

The value of circulating units

Market capitalization equals price multiplied by circulating supply. The calculation values circulating units at the market price; it doesn't total the cash that buyers have invested. Supply changes can also affect capitalization. Comparing price movement with market-cap movement therefore requires attention to the supply component.

Diagram: Cryptobubbles - Price change, market cap, and volume measure different things

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Trading activity over a stated period

Trading volume measures the value of trades over a specified period. A field labeled 24-hour volume concerns that interval, even beside a weekly performance figure. Repeated trading of the same units contributes to turnover, so volume doesn't count unique holders. It also doesn't measure the orders currently available to execute.

Timeframes change the reference price

Hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly views compare movement across different windows. Each window changes the earlier price against which performance is measured. Percentage price change equals the price difference divided by the starting price, multiplied by 100. That denominator explains why equal absolute price changes can produce different percentage changes.

Keeping the period beside each performance reading makes its basis clear, because comparing assets over matching windows answers a different question from comparing several periods within the history of a single asset. A timeframe also differs from the data refresh schedule. An hourly performance view describes the comparison window, without establishing how often the interface receives new values.

Bubble size and color follow separate settings

Size, color, and label content can represent different measurements within the same chart. A market-cap size setting emphasizes relative market value, while a performance setting emphasizes price movement. Color and text can supply additional information. Read these assignments together before interpreting whichever circles occupy the most screen space. The numerical label remains useful when colors are hard to distinguish or bubbles overlap. Its unit and sign clarify what the display represents. Bubble size alone doesn't identify a gain, a loss, or a holding in your wallet; its meaning follows the configured measure.

Custom configurations keep comparisons consistent

Custom chart configurations let you retain useful metric combinations, then edit or delete them as your needs change. Consistent settings help distinguish changing market data from changing presentation. A configuration that sizes by volume emphasizes a different dimension from one that sizes by market cap, even when both show the same performance period. For repeated observations, keep the quote currency and period consistent as well; otherwise several changes can affect the display at once.

Search, categories, and watchlists define the visible set

Search helps locate a particular asset, while filters and personal lists narrow the market under examination. Category filters in the iOS app include decentralized finance (DeFi) and layer-1 projects. Those groupings support comparisons within a selected part of the market. Category membership describes the grouping; it doesn't establish a project's quality or financial condition.

A watchlist keeps chosen assets in focus, and its mixture of gains and losses describes that selection, which may differ substantially from a broader market view. Neither a small group of prominent circles nor a personal list provides an automatic measure of the whole cryptocurrency market.

Price charts reveal movement inside a period

A coin's price history adds the path between observations to the net change shown on its bubble. The bubble's percentage compares only the earlier and later prices.

Direction and volatility answer different questions. A positive endpoint change can coexist with large fluctuations during the interval, while a small net change can hide considerable movement. The displayed chart range determines which part of that history is visible. Historical movement describes what happened over that range; it doesn't establish why the move occurred or what the next price will be.

Display currencies set the unit of comparison

Fiat and cryptocurrency denominations offer different ways to express asset values. The chosen unit belongs to the reading, especially when comparisons involve prices, capitalization, or volume. Currency settings change how values are displayed.

Values in a fiat currency

A fiat-denominated view expresses monetary values in a national currency. Consistent units make the values comparable across assets. Currency conversion can change a displayed number without changing the underlying quantity of an asset. A price comparison that switches denomination therefore combines asset movement with a change in the unit used to express it.

Values relative to another cryptocurrency

A crypto-denominated price expresses an asset's value relative to a reference cryptocurrency. That ratio can move when either component changes. Relative performance and fiat performance can therefore describe different directions over the same interval. The reference currency identifies what the asset is being measured against.

Market-wide values differ from executable quotes

A dashboard's market reading can differ from the price available for a particular exchange transaction. An aggregated market price can combine observations from several trading venues. Different contributing markets, calculation methods, and update times can explain differences between displays. A chart reading isn't an offer to fill a specific order at that value.

Execution also depends on the available orders and trade size at the chosen venue. Reported volume measures completed trading activity, while liquidity concerns the ability to transact without substantial price movement. A high volume figure alone doesn't specify the depth available for a proposed trade. Coin detail views include external market links; the destination service determines its account requirements, available markets, and transaction terms.

A timeframe change can reverse the performance sign

Changing a performance window changes the reference price used in the comparison. In this hypothetical example, an asset has positive hourly performance and negative weekly performance. Its current price, quote currency, and market-cap reading stay unchanged during the comparison. These assumed readings describe the example, not live market conditions.

The reader switches from hourly to weekly performance while keeping bubble size tied to market cap. The performance sign changes because the weekly reference price lies above the current price, whereas the hourly reference price lies below it. The unchanged size setting continues to represent market value.

Compare the hourly gain with the weekly loss while the asset, currency, and other settings match. If a view hasn't supplied its numerical values, wait for those values before interpreting it. If the unit or asset changes too, stop attributing the whole difference to the timeframe.

Market readings can change during inspection. When fresh prices arrive, the unchanged-price assumption no longer holds, and the displayed percentages need a new reading. The hourly and weekly signs belong to their respective comparison windows.

Device storage and privacy shape repeat visits

The browser service and mobile apps provide chart access without an account. Preferences and personal lists stay in browser storage or the app's equivalent.

Settings stay local, while analytics may record aggregate usage and use their own cookies. Local preference storage and usage measurement concern different kinds of data.

External exchange links lead to services with their own data practices. Some links contain referral parameters that can credit the chart service for a subsequent signup or trade.

Mobile access includes Android, iPhone, and iPad. Software compatibility still matters: the iPhone app requires iOS 15 or later, and the iPad app requires iPadOS 15 or later.

Cryptobubbles: common questions

Is the mobile app free to download?

The Android, iPhone, and iPad apps are free to download. A linked exchange sets its own trading fees and transaction terms, which remain separate from the cost of downloading the chart app.

Do I need to connect a wallet to use Cryptobubbles?

You don't need a connected wallet to browse the chart or maintain local asset lists. Adding an asset changes the display selection; it doesn't provide access to your holdings.

What happens if I clear my browser data?

Clearing the browser data that holds the settings resets your saved preferences and personal lists. That includes custom chart configurations and watchlists. Reinstalling the mobile app also resets its locally stored settings.

Why won't the chart load when JavaScript is disabled?

The browser chart needs JavaScript to run its interactive interface. A browser that disables or doesn't support scripting can show a fallback message instead of the chart. The missing interactive display doesn't by itself establish a fault in the market data.

Can I compare charts from different devices?

Charts from different devices are comparable when their asset selection, period, currency, and metric settings match. Preferences stay on each device, so one screen can use different settings from another. Matching those choices helps avoid mistaking a configuration difference for a market move.

Does the displayed percentage show my personal investment return?

The displayed performance measures an asset's price change over the selected period. Your personal return uses your acquisition price, position changes, and relevant costs. A market-wide percentage therefore doesn't determine your own profit or loss, even when the asset appears in your watchlist.

Are bubble positions coordinates on a price chart?

The animated view arranges moving bubbles, while the individual coin chart plots price through time. Read the bubble's configured size, color, and label for its measurements. A collision or a change in screen position doesn't identify a timestamp or price level.