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Futures & order flow

Depth maps, footprints, DOM, execution bubbles and saved templates

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Select futures products and dated contracts

Keep roots, micros and exact expirations straight in Order Flow.

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Choose Order Flow mode, lookback and interval

Use Bubbles, Footprint and Candles without conflating time-window and candle size.

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Read the resting-liquidity Depth Map

Separate captured resting orders, BBO and executed-volume evidence.

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Read bid × ask footprints

Compare executed selling and buying at each price within a candle.

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Read the DOM, Order Book, Volume Profile and Delta columns

Understand which columns describe current resting depth and which describe executions.

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Understand execution bubbles and consolidation

Read sustained classified bursts and inspect the executions behind a visual cluster.

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Interpret possible absorption and futures signals

Use execution, book and liquidity evidence with the limitations each requires.

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Pan, scale, pause and resume Order Flow

Inspect retained captures without losing a clear route back to the live edge.

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Adjust adaptive rows and liquidity appearance

Make dense footprints and ladders readable while preserving native captured totals.

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Create and save Order Flow templates

Reuse mode, styling, thresholds, lookback and interval as named account records.

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Download an Order Flow chart image

Capture the displayed chart and recognize graphics-context export failures.