# OpenMarket User Guides

> OpenMarket is a trading analytics platform providing real-time and historical market data for crypto and Polymarket prediction markets. These docs cover the product surface — terminal, order flow, charting, indicators, kScript, Hub, Academy, referrals.

## User Guides

- **Getting Started —** [Introduction](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/getting-started/introduction.md): OpenMarket is a social, professional-grade charting platform that lets you see, build, and share how money actually moves—across crypto, equities, and prediction markets.
- **Getting Started —** [Creating an Account](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/getting-started/how-to-sign-up.md): To unlock the full platform — saved workspaces, custom indicators, and personalized settings — you must register an account. We support three secure methods:
- **Getting Started —** [Is there a mobile app?](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/getting-started/faq/is-there-a-mobile-app.md)
- **Getting Started —** [Stuck on Enable Hardware Acceleration screen](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/getting-started/faq/hardware-acceleration-stuck.md): If you have already enabled hardware acceleration in your browser settings but still cannot bypass the notification, your browser may be blocking specific graphics features due to driver compatibility or internal flags.
- **Getting Started —** [Is there an API key?](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/getting-started/faq/is-there-an-api-key.md): How to get an API key for the OpenMarket Data API.
- **Terminal —** [Overview](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/core/terminal/overview.md)
- **Terminal —** [News Feed](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/core/terminal/news-feed.md): Monitor real-time market sentiment and breaking news across crypto and macro sectors.
- **Terminal —** [Tape](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/core/terminal/tape.md): Monitor real-time transaction flow with granular trade execution data.
- **Terminal —** [Order Book](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/core/terminal/order-book.md): Analyze real-time market depth and liquidity with our advanced aggregated order book.
- **Terminal —** [Order Book Delta](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/core/terminal/order-book-delta.md): Track real-time changes in market depth to identify where liquidity is being added or removed.
- **Terminal —** [Order Book DOM](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/core/terminal/order-book-dom.md): Master real-time execution and liquidity shifts with the Depth of Market (DOM) interface.
- **Terminal —** [Volume Stats](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/core/terminal/volume-stats.md): Monitor trading volume trends and buy/sell pressure with granular 24-hour market activity.
- **Terminal —** [Liquidity Stats](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/core/terminal/liquidity-stats.md): Analyze market depth stability and order book balance over a rolling 24-hour period.
- **Terminal —** [Market Stats](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/core/terminal/market-stats.md): Monitor real-time market microstructure including trade frequency, book depth, and volume flow.
- **Terminal —** [Trade & Liquidations](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/core/terminal/trade-and-liquidations.md): Monitor real-time aggressive execution activity and forced liquidations across multiple symbols.
- **Terminal —** [Watchlist](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/core/terminal/watchlist.md): Organize and track multiple assets across exchanges with real-time streaming data and customizable metrics.
- **Core —** [Liquidations](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/core/liquidations.md): Track real-time forced liquidations across the entire crypto market.
- **Core —** [kScript](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/core/k-script.md): Build and share high-performance indicators with direct access to raw market data.
- **Core —** [Academy](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/core/academy.md): Master market mechanics and advanced trading strategies.
- **Hub —** [Overview](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/core/hub/overview.md): Discover and manage community-built indicators and suites.
- **Hub —** [kScript Hub](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/core/hub/k-script-hub.md): The kScript Hub is the definitive library for custom-coded indicators and suites developed within the kScript ecosystem.
- **Order Flow —** [Order flow on OpenMarket, which tool when](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/order-flow.md): A map of OpenMarket's order-flow suite — footprint, TPO, heatmap, DOM, tape, and CVD — and which tool answers which question.
- **Order Flow —** [Meet the footprint](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/order-flow/footprint.md): Open a candle up and read the fight inside it — bid/ask volume at every price level, delta, imbalances, and the POC.
- **Order Flow —** [Footprint playbook](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/order-flow/footprint/playbook.md): The handful of footprint patterns traders actually act on — absorption, stacked imbalances, exhaustion, unfinished auctions, and delta divergence.
- **Order Flow —** [Footprint settings reference](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/order-flow/footprint/settings-reference.md): Every option in the Volume Footprint dialog, tab by tab — display modes, imbalance detection, value area and POC, stats rows, liquidation markers, and colors.
- **Order Flow —** [Meet TPO (Market Profile)](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/order-flow/tpo.md): Read where the market accepts and rejects value with OpenMarket's TPO (Market Profile) indicator — letters, POC, value area, and structure.
- **Order Flow —** [TPO playbook](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/order-flow/tpo/playbook.md): The Market Profile patterns worth marking on OpenMarket — value-area rotation, the 80% rule, poor extremes, single prints, and initial balance.
- **Order Flow —** [TPO settings reference](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/order-flow/tpo/settings-reference.md): Every option in OpenMarket's TPO (Market Profile) settings dialog, documented tab by tab — General, Color, Profile, and Volume.
- **Charting —** [Charting on OpenMarket](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/charting.md): The chart and the tools around it — chart types, drawing tools, price alerts, and keyboard control, with links into the full charting guides.
- **Charting —** [Drawing tools](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/charting/drawing-tools.md): OpenMarket's 99 drawing tools across nine toolbar groups — how to draw, edit, favorite, and snap them, plus the magnet, per-tool settings, and hotkeys.
- **Charting —** [Themes and appearance](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/charting/themes-and-appearance.md): How OpenMarket's appearance stacks — dark or light mode, six color themes, and per-chart color overrides — and what saves to your account versus your workspace.
- **Charting —** [Workspaces, layouts, and widgets](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/charting/workspaces-and-widgets.md): Workspaces as complete trading setups — creating and managing them, the multi-chart grid, the terminal's widgets, and applying or publishing community layouts.
- **Indicators —** [Indicators](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/indicators.md): Add funding, open interest, liquidations, order flow, volume profiles, and the classic oscillators to your chart from one searchable library.
- **Options —** [The options suite](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/options.md): Twelve chart-native indicators built from Deribit's live options board — dealer positioning, walls and magnets, the volatility surface, and live options flow.
- **Options —** [How the options math works](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/options/concepts.md): The one primer for the whole suite: how dealer hedging moves price, the greeks and GEX math, and how dealer inventory is estimated from the trade tape.
- **Options —** [Options dashboard](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/options/dashboard.md): The dashboard is a tile panel of eleven positioning KPIs, all computed from the same live options board as the rest of the suite.
- **Options —** [GEX profile](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/options/gex-profile.md): The options board drawn onto your price chart — a bar at every strike, plus call wall, put wall, gamma flip and max pain.
- **Options —** [GEX heatmap](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/options/gex-heatmap.md): The options board's history painted behind your candles: strike bands and how dealer exposure at each strike evolved over time.
- **Options —** [GEX curve](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/options/gex-curve.md): The GEX curve draws the gamma board in its own pane under the chart, over the strike axis instead of time.
- **Options —** [Options flow](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/options/flow.md): Traded options volume drawn on your chart — a column at every strike, sized by how much actually changed hands over the visible range.
- **Options —** [Flow by expiry](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/options/flow-by-expiry.md): Flow by expiry puts one bar under your chart for every live expiry, showing net traded options volume over a trailing window.
- **Options —** [Flow pulse](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/options/flow-pulse.md): Flow pulse is a six-tile scoreboard of net options buying: net call flow and net put flow over the last hour, four hours, and twenty-four hours.
- **Options —** [IV smile](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/options/iv-smile.md): Implied volatility across strikes, up to three expiries at once: the nearest, roughly one week out, and roughly one month out.
- **Options —** [Term structure](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/options/term-structure.md): The term structure plots each expiry's at-the-money IV against its days to expiry: the volatility yield curve.
- **Options —** [Options surface](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/options/surface.md): The whole vol landscape as a strike-by-expiry matrix, each cell colored and valued by the metric you choose.
- **Options —** [Vol matrix](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/options/vol-matrix.md): The vol matrix is a compact table, one row per expiry with the front row highlighted, five numbers per row: ATM IV, two risk reversals, a butterfly, and open interest.
- **Options —** [Implied move](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/options/implied-move.md): Implied move translates each expiry's implied volatility into the number you actually want: how big a move is the options market pricing in by that date?
- **Referrals —** [Overview](https://openmarket.xyz/learn/referrals/overview.md): Grow the OpenMarket community and unlock institutional-grade features by inviting other traders.