Volume-weighted average price: every trade weighted by its size. It tells you where the day's real activity happened, rather than the midpoint between a single spike high and a single spike low.

Why is the last price sometimes outside the middle?

Because the bar spans the whole day. A price hard against either end means the market is making a new high or low for the session right now.

Yes. It comes from Kraken's public ticker endpoint, key-free. Nothing is invented or simulated, and if the source cannot be reached the saver reports that instead of drawing something plausible.

Does it cost anything or need an account?

No. Every screensaver here is free, runs in the browser and needs no sign-up. This one uses a public API that requires no key.

Position In The Range Screensaver

The Position In The Range screensaver draws each cryptocurrency pair as a bar spanning the last 24 hours' low to high, with a marker showing where the price currently sits and a tick for the volume-weighted average. A pair pinned to the right is at its daily high; one at the left has given the day back. It runs in the browser with nothing to install; press ESC to exit.

How the Position In The Range screensaver works

The saver reads Kraken's public ticker endpoint, key-free.

No account and no key: the request goes straight from your browser, or from this site's own refreshed copy of the feed where the source does not allow browser access.

Values are drawn on a canvas that resizes with the window, so it works on a laptop or a wall display.

If the source is unreachable the saver says so on screen rather than showing stale numbers as though they were current.

A worked example

Each row is a range bar with the ticker on the left and the price and daily change on the right. The bright marker is the last trade; the grey tick behind it is the volume-weighted average — the price at which the day's volume actually changed hands, which is a more honest average than the midpoint of two extremes. Pairs are ordered by trade count, so the busiest markets lead.

Settings & tips

Accent and Background recolour the display without changing the data.
Add it to a Multi-view grid to watch it alongside other live savers.
Press ESC at any time to leave fullscreen.

Frequently asked questions

What is VWAP?: Volume-weighted average price: every trade weighted by its size. It tells you where the day's real activity happened, rather than the midpoint between a single spike high and a single spike low.
Why is the last price sometimes outside the middle?: Because the bar spans the whole day. A price hard against either end means the market is making a new high or low for the session right now.
Is this real data?: Yes. It comes from Kraken's public ticker endpoint, key-free. Nothing is invented or simulated, and if the source cannot be reached the saver reports that instead of drawing something plausible.
Does it cost anything or need an account?: No. Every screensaver here is free, runs in the browser and needs no sign-up. This one uses a public API that requires no key.

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