Bittrex API market history -- interpreting OrderType

Question

The Bittrex API has a request to get the market history:

https://bittrex.com/api/v1.1/public/getmarkethistory?market=BTC-DOGE

which gives a response containing the following fields:

• "Id"
• "TimeStamp"
• "Quantity"
• "Price"
• "Total"
• "FillType"
• "OrderType"

"OrderType" can be one of "BUY" or "SELL". What does this refer to?

Let's assume it has a value of "SELL". Does this mean:

1. The person who initially placed the order was selling (Seller is Maker).
2. The person who closed the order was selling (Seller is Taker)

Answer 1

You almost have it!

BUY means that the order was the consequence of someone buying at the ask price, as opposed to creating an order at a lower-than-market price.

SELL means that the order was the consequence of someone selling at the bid price, as opposed to creating an order at a higher-than-market price.