Characteristic in Focus – Footprint Charts

Have you ever ever checked out a Footprint Chart and puzzled what all these numbers imply and the right way to reap the benefits of them? On this video, we’ll check out how Footprints Charts might help you together with your buying and selling, providing you with an info benefit over the merchants utilizing candlestick charts.

Take a look at Footprint charts, as a window that permits you to look inside a candlestick. A candlestick is simply able to providing you with 4 costs, the open, the excessive, the low, and the shut. Footprint charts, however, mean you can know the amount traded per worth on the purchase and the promote facet. You recognize precisely at which worth these consumers’ and sellers’ curiosity was.

With that info, it is possible for you to to put your orders at worth areas which have which means to merchants, the place they put their hard-earned cash at play, and never at random areas, normally, highs and lows which are randomly chosen relying on the time interval chosen, 1 min, 5 min or 30 min. 

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Hello all,

At this time we’re going to speak about footprint charts. A lot of you already heard about it and checked out it, however possibly all these numbers may need scared you, and also you merely put it apart and determined to maneuver on.

At this time, I’m going to carry you again to it as a result of it could actually actually assist your buying and selling.

Take a look at the footprint chart, as a window so that you can look inside a bar, inside a candle stick. If you happen to have a look at a footprint facet by facet with a candlestick chart, you’ll be able to see each are displaying the identical worth vary traded inside a selected time, on this case, 5 minutes. You may see that the open, the shut, the excessive, the low, and the amount are precisely the identical.

Let’s make issues a bit less complicated for now, and let’s take away the numbers from the footprint chart, let’s solely have a look at the histogram. This histogram reveals the purchase and the promote quantity traded per worth, and let’s evaluate it with the identical candlesticks.

After we have a look at these candles, the one factor we see are the excessive, low, open, and shut, nothing else, however as we mentioned earlier, footprint charts are like a window that permits seeing what has occurred contained in the candlesticks.

By simply wanting on the histograms, we’re taking a look at mini quantity profiles, per bar, which might help us pinpoint areas of curiosity for us to commerce. We will see these peaks, which present areas the place there was a number of curiosity from consumers and sellers, and a number of quantity was traded. The valleys, present areas the place there was little or no buying and selling curiosity, the worth moved in a short time by way of it, and little or no quantity was traded. Normally, this occurs as a result of one facet of the market pulls their orders, and the opposite facet simply takes all of the remaining orders.

Let’s return and seek for peaks and valleys, from the place we are able to draw doable areas of assist and resistance, which we are able to then use to assist in our entries and exits.

Going again a few bars, we discover this large bar, the place little or no quantity was traded under, there was little or no curiosity in buying and selling these costs. This can be a case the place sellers pulled their orders from the market, and consumers merely took every part that was obtainable, and solely at 7.75 and above, curiosity began to indicate up, and we are able to see that by the excessive traded quantity space within the histogram.

So, we are able to have a look at the 7.75 as a assist space, and let’s place a line on it, so we are able to observe how costs react to it.

We will see a optimistic first take a look at, we then broke it by 4 ticks however reacted positively to it, after which we broke it, and curiosity began to indicate up under that space. Once more, have a look at the excessive traded quantity. And really, we are able to modify that line we drew, and pull it down to six.75, the place the buying and selling curiosity began to indicate up.

Shifting ahead, we are able to see that when costs moved again to that space, the curiosity in buying and selling was under it, not above it, and since then, we’ve been buying and selling in a buying and selling vary for the final 30 min.

Let’s now change ON the numbers once more. They point out the amount traded on the bid and provide facet, per worth. Discover how once we retest the 6.75, the primary time only one lot traded into it, and the second time solely 3 tons traded into it. Clearly, not a lot curiosity to purchase above that worth at the moment.

Let’s look now on the present bar, you’ll be able to see that 16 tons have been bought at 2.25 and nothing has been traded but on the purchase facet at 2.25. However one thing you might want to take note of is that the footprint needs to be learn like we learn the DOM, diagonally. So we’ve got 16 tons bought at 2.25 and 29 tons purchased at 2.50. That is what tells us which facet is displaying extra energy, the purchase or the promote facet.

Skilled merchants have a tendency to make use of solely the DOM, however in prop corporations, some additionally use the footprint as a result of in a method, the footprint, is displaying the DOM historical past.

After we have a look at the DOM, in a quick market, we’d have problem remembering the place costs have been 1 minute in the past, however with the footprint, we are able to see it and know precisely what quantity was traded there on the time, per worth.

I discover it extra advantageous to mix the DOM with the footprint, utilizing the areas of assist and resistance we drew earlier, after which, on the DOM, we have a look at the precise quantity being traded in these areas, seeing if the amount being traded, signifies a doable breakout, a head faux, and even falling quick and pullback. However others may determine to solely use the footprint as a result of it’s extra visible than the DOM, and there’s nothing unsuitable with that. We’re all completely different.

Let’s now have a look at its settings.

The information settings are frequent to all chart sorts. It’s the place you choose your chart interval, on this case, we’ve got a 5-min chart, what number of days you wish to load, and a few extra choices that I feel are self-explanatory.

And under we’ve got the footprint chart settings themselves. Simply to spotlight a few of them, by default we present every bar histogram, however you may choose to additionally see the background shade. As you’ll be able to see, this makes it a bit more durable to see the histogram, so that you may wish to disable the histogram and simply have the background shade.

We then have the Tilt mode, which has turn out to be a love and hate factor amongst our prospects. And I do know, it appears a bit odd, however in actuality, it does facilitate studying the order move. Bear in mind what we mentioned that footprints needs to be learn diagonally, and that is what the lean mode does. While you have a look at each modes facet by facet, you’ll be able to see how simpler it’s to learn the lean mode. We’re displaying the info diagonally, there is no such thing as a want so that you can lookup and down, between the bid and provide when taking a look at the usual footprint view as seen on the suitable facet.

Let’s now have a look at the Histogram Diagonal choice, which lets you additionally learn the usual footprint view, diagonally. So once more, we’ve got each views facet by facet, and you may see how on the suitable facet we’ve got the usual view, the place we have to have a look at the 12 tons traded on the bid after which have a look at the 52 tons traded on the provide above, whereas on the left facet, with the Histogram Diagonal choice chosen, we’ve got the view just like the lean choice, we’re seeing the 12 tons traded on the bid and the 52 tons traded on the provide facet by facet.

And eventually, I wish to discuss in regards to the Minimal Imbalance Quantity and Imbalance Share choices. This needs to be adjusted based mostly on the image you’re buying and selling. The Minimal Imbalance quantity choice is what it is going to be thought-about to calculate an Imbalance. For this instance, let’s choose 50 tons. The Imbalance Share choice is what the opposite facet must exceed, so it may be highlighted, indicating this fashion that we had an imbalance both from the purchase facet or the promote facet. Let’s preserve the 200 for now. Wanting on the chart, you’ll be able to see that some numbers are actually highlighted in yellow. By the best way, you’ll be able to customise all colours down right here.

One thing you want to pay attention to, as we’ve got the setting proper now, the Imbalance is being learn or calculated horizontally however as we mentioned earlier than, it must be finished diagonally, so for that, you both want to modify to the Tilt mode, or allow the Histogram Diagonal choice.

Abstract

In abstract, Footprint charts will mean you can pinpoint your entries and exits by wanting on the quantity peaks and valleys (often known as quantity nodes) per bar. From there you’ll find areas that may be checked out as assist and resistance after which see for those who get a superb buying and selling setup whereas wanting on the order move when costs retest those self same areas.