Full Footprint Launch — Order Flow at Maximum Resolution

What Are Footprint Charts?

Footprint charts show volume traded at each price level within a candle, split between aggressive buyers and sellers. While candlesticks show you price movement, footprints show the order flow behind that movement - letting you see absorption, initiative activity, and where real size is trading.

Three Visualization Modes

Split Mode Buy volume on the right, sell volume on the left. Classic footprint view for spotting imbalances and absorption where heavy buying/selling fails to move price.

Delta Mode Shows net difference between buy and sell volume. Shows which side traded more at each level and highlights divergences between price action and order flow pressure.

Total Mode Stacks all volume regardless of direction. Essentially a micro volume profile for each candle, highlighting acceptance and rejection zones.

POC, VAH, VAL Levels

Every footprint automatically calculates Point of Control (price with most volume), Value Area High, and Value Area Low (containing 70% of volume). They're reference levels derived from traded volume, and many traders watch them as potential areas of reaction or breakout.

Built-in Session Profiles

One-click session profiles for US, UK, and APAC markets. Compare where volume actually trades across different sessions - that Asian session high might have zero US institutional volume behind it. That London support might get completely ignored by New York traders.

Full customization available for session times, value area percentages, color schemes, and volume filters.

Footprints + Order Book Heatmaps

Footprints can be combined with our order book heatmaps. Heatmaps show where passive liquidity sits in the book. Footprints show what happens when price gets there.

Is that sell wall actually defending? Are those buy orders providing real support or pulling when tested? You're watching the full picture - intention meets execution.

1-Second Granularity

The biggest upgrade: footprints now work down to 1-second candles. Previously, we only supported multi-candle footprints (similar to VPSV), grouping multiple candles into one footprint interval. Now you get tick-by-tick order flow visibility.

This matters because significant order flow events - iceberg fills, book sweeps, absorption - can happen and resolve in seconds, and 1-second footprints put that micro-structure on the chart.

VPSV Note

For those familiar with VPSV (Volume Profile Session Volume), it's essentially a footprint with multiple candles grouped into the same interval. Our footprints give you that same profile view but with granularity down to individual candles and now even 1-second intervals.