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Footprint

Footprint opens up each candle and shows how much traded at every price inside it - split by who was the aggressor. Instead of one bar telling you 1,200 contracts changed hands, footprint tells you where in the range they traded and whether buyers or sellers were lifting the market.

Where: Chart Options ▸ FootprintTier: TraderPanel: Chart
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id: order-flow-footprint

A chart with footprint on - each candle shows per-price buy/sell volume cells

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Overview

Section titled “Overview”

Every candle becomes a column of price cells. Each cell holds the volume that traded at that price during the bar, coloured by aggressor. Read top-to-bottom you can see absorption (heavy volume that didn’t move price), exhaustion (volume drying up at the extreme), and exactly which level the bar pivoted on - detail a normal candle hides.

How to use

Section titled “How to use”

  1. Open Chart Options and switch on Footprint, then pick a mode.

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    id: order-flow-footprint-modes

    The Footprint settings showing the mode selector (Delta / Bid×Ask) and decimals

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  2. Read the cells against price. Clusters of one colour at a level mark aggression; a flip from one colour to the other up the bar marks where control changed hands.

Modes

Section titled “Modes”
ModeWhat each cell shows
OffFootprint disabled
DeltaNet of buy minus sell volume at that price (one number per cell)
Bid × AskThe split - volume that hit the bid vs lifted the ask, side by side

Settings

Section titled “Settings”
OptionValuesWhat it does
ModeOff / Delta / Bid×AskHow each cell is computed
Decimals0–8Decimal places shown in the cells
Section titled “Related”