# Buy sell ratio crypto: how to scan Solana coins on ripr > What a buy sell ratio in crypto means, and how to build a buy/sell ratio scan on ripr with the Explore screener's Buys 24h and Sells 24h filters. - URL: https://ripr.trade/blog/buy-sell-ratio-crypto-scanner - Publisher: ripr (https://ripr.trade) - Author: ripr Editorial Team - Published: 2026-11-08 - Category: Guides A buy sell ratio in crypto compares how many buys a coin took against how many sells in the same window, and on ripr you can scan for it directly. [Explore, ripr's screener](https://ripr.trade/explore) carries **Buys 24h** and **Sells 24h** among its range filters, so you put a floor under one and a ceiling over the other and get a list of Solana coins with a high buy-to-sell ratio. Sort what survives by **Txns 24h** or **Volume 24h** and the busiest imbalances come to the top. The ratio is where research starts rather than where it ends. Here is how to build the scan, how to read the number properly, and what to check on the coin itself before you act on it. ## What a buy sell ratio in crypto measures A buy/sell ratio measures trade direction: the number of buys divided by the number of sells on the same coin over the same stretch of time. At 2.0 the coin took two buys for every sell. At 0.5 the sellers were twice as busy. There is a second version of the same idea that uses money instead of trade count: buy volume divided by sell volume. One answers "how many trades went each way", the other "how much went each way", and on a real coin they often disagree. Here is what that looks like in practice. On one coin less than ten minutes into trading, ripr's market data showed about 1,960 buys against about 1,200 sells — roughly 1.6 to 1 by count. The money told a stronger story: about $23,000 of buying against about $9,000 of selling, closer to 2.5 to 1. Buyers were arriving in larger tickets than sellers were leaving in, which is the part a count alone hides. So read both when you can. A count ratio tells you how many hands are involved; a volume ratio tells you which side is committing size. ## How to build a buy/sell ratio scan in ripr's screener You build a buy/sell ratio scan in ripr by combining two of the Explore screener's range filters, because a ratio is just a floor on one number and a ceiling on another. 1. Open [Explore and its screener](https://ripr.trade/explore). It filters and sorts the Solana market by venue, by launchpad and by ranges such as market cap, liquidity, age and trade counts. 2. Set a minimum on **Buys 24h**, the filter that counts a coin's buys over the last 24 hours. Pick a number high enough that the coin has genuine traffic rather than a handful of trades — a few hundred buys is a reasonable floor on an active day. 3. Set a maximum on **Sells 24h** below that floor. A 500-buy minimum with a 250-sell maximum is a 2-to-1 scan; tighten or loosen either end to move the ratio you are asking for. 4. Put a floor under **Liquidity ($)** so thin coins stay out. Sorting by market cap does this for you — leave the liquidity and holder bounds unset there and the screener hides coins with under $5,000 of liquidity or fewer than 100 holders — but a ratio scan reads better sorted by activity, so set the floor yourself. 5. Sort the survivors by **Txns 24h** or **Volume 24h**. Either puts the busiest coins on top, where an imbalance is usually worth a look. 6. Turn on **Hide warnings** to drop flagged coins from the list — coins ripr has not finished checking still appear — then keep the two or three that stay interesting in a watchlist. ripr's Trending list is the quicker route to a similar place. Trending ranks coins on how fast trades, volume and distinct buyers are growing, and ranks coins whose activity looks manipulated lower, so a coin climbing Trending is usually one where buying is picking up. The screener is for when you want to set the threshold yourself. Explore is on web, iOS and Android, and each app offers its own selection of filters and sorts. ## Why a coin with more buys than sells can still fall A high buy/sell ratio measures activity, not outcome, and three things routinely break the signal. **Size beats count.** Nine hundred small buys and forty large sells give you a 22-to-1 count ratio and a falling price. That is why the volume reading matters, and why your quote moves against you on thin coins: larger trades push the price more than small ones, as the help centre explains in [how your buy size and sell size affect price](https://ripr.trade/support/how-do-my-buy-size-and-sell-size-affect-price). **Some buying is manufactured.** Buys are cheap to produce if you control both sides, and a wall of them is the oldest way to make a chart look alive. ripr runs rule-based checks for known rug patterns and shows what it finds as warnings on the coin — 13 codes in all, covering things like a launch curve bought by a bundle, wallets linked to the creator dumping, and a creator holding unlocked liquidity. A strong ratio sitting next to one of those warnings means something very different from a strong ratio without one. **The window hides the turn.** A 24-hour ratio can look healthy while the last hour has gone the other way. ripr's web charts give you eight timeframes from one second to one day plus a volume mode, so you can see when the buying happened instead of only that it happened. ## What to check on the ripr coin page before you act on the ratio On a ripr coin page, four things tell you whether a buy/sell ratio is worth acting on: the warnings, the supply split, the live trades and the coin's own contract address. Start with the warnings. ripr shows its rug-pattern warnings on the coin page and again in the buy flow, and says plainly that the absence of a warning never means a coin is fine. Then look at supply: each coin shows how much of it the top 10 and top 50 holders hold, and how much the creator holds, with pools and vaults left out. A tight cluster of holders on the buy side of your ratio is worth knowing about. Next, watch the live trades. Prices, charts and trade feeds update over a streaming connection as each fill is decoded, so a minute of watching tells you whether the buying is still arriving or already finished. The iOS and Android coin pages also tell you when a coin is under review, has low liquidity, has paused prices or is still being checked. Finally, make sure it is the right coin. A contract address is a coin's unique on-chain id — the long string that identifies it even when a dozen coins share one name and picture. You can search ripr by name, ticker or full contract address, and for a coin you heard about elsewhere, paste the whole address. Then start smaller than feels interesting, and keep some SOL spare for [network fees on Solana](https://solana.com/docs/core/fees). The help centre's [how to trade more safely](https://ripr.trade/support/how-can-i-trade-more-safely) is a tight checklist, and our guide to [spotting a risky meme coin](https://ripr.trade/blog/how-to-spot-a-risky-meme-coin) covers the rest of the page. ## Frequently asked questions ### What is a good buy sell ratio in crypto? There is no single good number. A buy/sell ratio above 1.0 means buys outnumbered sells in that window, and traders tend to treat 2-to-1 and up as notable, but a ratio only means something next to the coin's liquidity, its age and its warnings. On ripr you set the threshold yourself in the Explore screener, using its **Buys 24h** and **Sells 24h** filters, rather than trusting one universal level. ### Does a high buy-to-sell ratio mean a Solana coin will go up? No. A buy-to-sell ratio describes trades that have already happened, not trades still to come, and a coin can take far more buys than sells while its price falls — forty large sells outweigh nine hundred small buys. Treat the ratio as one input, then check the coin's warnings, holder concentration and liquidity before you act on it. ### Where do ripr's buy and sell numbers come from? ripr's charts, trades and coin statistics come from market data ripr's in-house platform decodes from Solana transactions itself, rather than resold from an aggregator. Live trades are pushed to the app as each fill is decoded, which is why a coin page's trade feed moves while you are reading it. ### Can I check the buy/sell ratio on a brand-new Solana coin? Yes. Explore lists newly launched coins alongside Trending, and the screener's age range keeps the scan to recent launches. New coins move quickly on light liquidity, as the help centre notes in [why price moves so quickly on new coins](https://ripr.trade/support/why-does-price-move-so-quickly-on-new-coins), so the short chart timeframes and the live trades feed are the honest view on a coin that is minutes old. ## Run the scan, then do the reading A buy/sell ratio is a fast way to find coins worth a look and a poor way to decide anything on its own. Build the scan once in [ripr's Explore screener](https://ripr.trade/explore) — a floor on 24-hour buys, a ceiling on 24-hour sells, a liquidity floor underneath — then spend your time on the coin page, where the warnings, the holder split and the live trades tell you what a ratio on its own never will. Our [Solana meme coin trading strategy](https://ripr.trade/blog/solana-meme-coin-trading-strategy) guide picks up from there. --- *Last verified 3 November 2026. This article is published by ripr, which builds an app for trading Solana coins. Nothing here is financial advice.*