Order flow trading journals from OPTT

After years of reading, coding, searching and testing, trial and error, fundamentals and technicals. In late 2021, I finally accepted the fact that it does not matter how complicated the calculation is used to create an indicator, as long as it uses data from OHLC, it is the same boring, lagging, reactive indicator.
I am not saying it is impossible to make profit with such systems. I am only saying it does not give me the edge I am looking for. I am not looking for an indicator that tells me the price has gone up when I can see it on the chart. I am looking for information that tells me why the price could have gone up/down. it does not have to be 100% accurate, but it needs to provide a valid and logical bias.
After another 2 years of research, many many dozen of books(I do not think I have read 100+). I think I have got the answer, it is so simple that I am pretty sure most people are well aware of it. Yet, it is difficult especially in forex market that I could only recall hearing people telling me that it is a dead end.
Interesting story, when I pitched my idea to a trader at a conference, he assured me there is no way I could obtain this type of info by showing me his real account, a $10 million annual profit account! Pretty amazing...but if a successful trader like him does not even think this type of information exists, can I really find what I am looking for...
Fast forward 2 years to now, we are proud to launch our research and analytical platform. We specialize in processing and transforming massive order flow data into actionable insight for retail forex and crypto investors.

Our partnered institution grants us license to share analytical insight using their order flow data with our own clients. With this information, traders will be able to take a peek at institutional trading activities in real time. We aggregate, analyze, and visualize the data to approximate overall money flow in and out of any underlying market, which create HUGE edge for both discretionary and systemic traders, as these actions usually happen prior to major news or price movements. Thus, traders will be able to spend less effort speculating on price actions or any patterns(those are the result of past not the reason for future) while focusing more on the development of price movement as the result of real institutional money flow.
Additionally, with real order information, traders will be more aware of any potential price traps, less subjected to FOMO emotions, and hence make less risky irrational trading decisions on the spot.
With access to transactional data, we are able to push the insight a step further by analyzing every single transaction to approximate the impact of $$$ flow in and out of the underlying asset at any given time and price level.

Knowing where money goes is the key.
Currently, I am confident to announce that there is no service provider I am aware of on the market offering similar analytical capability to retail investors.

We also offer other powerful analytical tools that are designed to help retail traders backtest and develop disciplined trading habits. Our trading report not only creates a summary for individual trades(the traditional way), but also provides a position management chart that currently no trading software is offering. With this tool, traders can review the entire life cycle of every position they managed from their own trading report as well as evaluate and identify hidden risk from any signal provider with a 'perfect' equity curve.

In this thread, I will regularly share the development of institutional fund flow and how it could provide additional insight independent to price patterns or indicators derived from OHLC data.

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MT5 download can be found on this thread
Real Institutional Order Flow for Retail Investors | Forex Factory

This belongs to the commercial thread.

Yellow line is the cumulative fund flow in/out gold spot.
Green and purple line is simply 24 hour high low of the yellow.
It is very clear since late June 2025 institional funds are leaving, while gold is maintaining current level, who is buying? I wonder...
last week clear divergence occurred, gold gained strength while funds accelerated their flee.
You see how powerful this leading indicator is.
It is definitely not 100% correct all the time. But with good risk managment, I am going along with the funds

Another divergence lasted for a while. Betting against the trend is never smart. But when the smart money is leaving the table, it is wise to play safe and play small.

Seems like funds are determined to leave.
When price goes again position(red) cut loss quickly.
When price goes with flow(green) enjoy the ride.
Now could be another push to the lower, I would slowly build up a short position from here. But always bear in mind, nothing is guarantueed in trading.

Classy FAQs for sure

Who do you have licensing agreements with for data? Specifics please.

Greetings triphop!
Thanks for your interest. I've put all my resources in building backend capabilies so far and was not yet able to put much attention on the landing page design, a little bit embarrassing
Responding to your question, I am sure you are farmiliar with softwares like bookmap and ATAS which gives you options to display purchased order flow data from future and equity exchanges. Here, I am using the same type of data only it is real transactional data in forex spot market.
As we all know there is no central exchange for forex, my data partner is only one of the many institutions that process large volume transactions.

To Clarify ANY MISUNDERSTANDING.

I am not licensed to distribute data, all the data on web and MT5 are aggregated and encrypted. My contract only allows me to share my analysed results and findings with my client.
Finally, please forgive me that at this stage of my business, I do not intend to disclose the source of the data. I am aware there are some platforms that provide functionalities similar to part of my product, the order flow analytics and related functionalities I am offering is what provide unique values to retail investors and stand out from the rest of the market. I intend to keep it that way for some time.
Best regards,

Well you'll forgive my cynicism then... because outside of futures, EBS & RM make up 2/3rds of interdealer volume. Then you've a handful of D2Cs platforms like FXAll. And CLS is the biggest aggregator.

This isn't a trade secret - I use RM and have done for years, granular down to bank level.

So I can see there's a gap in the market for a user-friendly implementation, and I'm all for someone/a company filling that gap.

But to say your source is top secret is an unnecessary red flag; you're expecting users to take it on trust the data isn't just glorified tick volume? You haven't actually fully launched yet so you've time to get this straight but long-term, transparency transparency transparency.

I can't agree with you more sir.
The whole approach, the method is no secret. If you do not have this type of info you can't do HFT, you can't arbitrage, you can't MM.
I do wish I have the capital to tap into major exchanges or LPs, but I guess I have to work my way up there
The problem like you said,
1. there is few to none user-friendly or economically viable solution for a wider range of unsophiscated investors.
2. how much actionable information are you able to extract from large volume of scattered data that is applicable to discretionary investors in intraday and swing trading time frame.
I think these are the problems I am trying to solve.

Regarding the tick volume, it only count the tick in a bar, it does not give you any directional guidance. But I think I see your point, I am not interested in a scam marketing campaign but it is indeed difficult and yet important to build trust on first strike. The whole purpose of order flow is market become more trasnparent...I hope I have built enough features for users to deem it useful.

But thank you for your advice and best regards,