Orderflow trading

i guess we don't have a dedicated orderflow trading thread and maybe i could find some good orderflow people on the website and gather them as I myself am learning and trading orderflow ...

so my approach with orderflow is reallly simple with a system that i have made and i am still working on which is related to absorption and agression on key levels (especially session highs and lows ) and volume profile leves (started using volume profiles recently) but mainly its a way to confirm your trade and not rely entirely on
i trade gold and nasdaq
currently using the AMP FUTURES platform that is quant tower
here is my orderflow setup with 5m and 1m
for what i have on my screen is chart where on teh left coloum its volume at price (5 ticks aggregation) and on the right its delta by price
there is a volume profile on the volume side of candle to visualize the volume traded in a more efficient way and the colors of cells change on the right side

yh nothing more actually if you trade orderflow drop some thing bout you or anything
or even any thoughts about orderflow or anything (open to everyone no objections NO RULES COMPLETE FREE SPEACH ,just don't promote your signlas or bots or else i shall first test em and expose them)

when you first started learning orderflow, what would some basics that you would recommend for someone just grasping it? thanks.

Here you go bro
Just give yourself some time learn things step by step and it shall be not hard..
And you can learn them from YouTube easily alot of content there as well as some books are there too

Good channels can be like :Fabiano valentin , Andrea cemi , Tom vorwald , Christopher Creamer , Poxis Fx , Carmine Rosato orderflows etc

thanks for the help man, means a lot

If anyone uses tick-based or range charts , what is your most used configuration for a gold chart in ticks that depicts the M1 or M5 in the best way? Currently I am starting to use 2000 tick range chart for nq let's see how this advancement goes.

yesterdays trade recap using orderflow

CONTEXT :
- bank holiday so not expecting very big continuation
- decent draw on liquidty was the weekly opening gap and ATH
Location :
- london highs
- tokyo highs
- ATH
- equal highs with london high
- volume profile ledge/shelf of london and tokyo
- VAH of volume profile (london and tokyo)


Reason :
- decent buying absorption on the footprint (40 ticks range , 5m footprint )
- exhaustion of buyers at ath
- aggressive participents pushed prices lower and putted the buyers underwater
- cvd divergence

Management :
- took the trade with medium risk cuz we didn't sweept the ATH and it was a holiday
- took some partials in the way at 3RR
- After partials went BE
- took profits at 4 RR
- left a small lot as a runner with BE
- remaining postion got BE after price rejected from VWAP

Today's trade recap

context :
- price ranging after dropping during asia session

Location:
- Balanced Range
- small Demand area
- current day VAL



reason / exicution :
- Failed auction at the VAL
- trapped sellers at the value area low
- aggression from buyers


target :
- vwap
- poc
- Daily VAH

trade 2 of the day
time : london session

context :
- looking to long after a small rebalance during asia
- over all bias is bullish

location:
- VAL of tokyo session
- session low tokyo


reason / exicution :
- sweep of tokyo low (absortion and agression)
- revisit the tokyo low AND the absorption area
- trapped sellers at the absorption block
- agressive participentes entring
40 ticks range
5m





Targets :
- Current day POC and VAH VWAP
- POC of the range to the left side

not gona put so much effort writing in the thread but
THe trade was from a low volume node where absorptin happened and tehn aggression followed
(premarket plan was shared in gold thread)

hey man just wondering what pairs do you trade? im really just trying to ask if orderflow works just as well on xauusd/gc as it does nq for
thanks

Yh orderflow works alot better on NQ , ES
but using orderflow you can trade pretty much everything (even currencies that are paired with USD)
you can trade oil SIlver aswell the trading methodlogy is the same
look for context , find a location , look at aborption , agression ......

today's pre market plan for gold is IF it go up i sell if it comes down i buy nothing in between

on nq i am in a long position (will be dropping the trade recap soon )

Here is the trade of today about nq
Nq during London session it was maybe a VAULE area low and a S/D zone I looked for absorption delta flips and aggression the a retracemnt back to the absorption area and aggression from there to enter

I have started to use GC instead of mgc so now for this trade it was from London value area (I think so)
I was seeing many 100 lots order hitting the bid but not getting any results and I shorted at a absorption candle and didn't waited for any aggression in this trade

Was doing a mean reversion trade from Tokyo highs the trade went 6 rr in profits but I didn't closed cuz I GOT GREEDY but no issues..

Shit happens

REMEMBER THE LESSON FORGET THE MISTAKE

It was absorption aggression play but I didn't took profits as I wasn't on my orderflow setup and thought will continue higher

pre market plan for today is that see if we go up and fail to accept vaule over there above
and reject and trade a mean reversion

other then that see if we come down and reject strongly from the balance below and see signs of movemnet change i can take a long aswell


the boxes in the zone are LVNs VALUE AREAs SHelves and leadge

using gex levels today seeing them side by side aswell 4500 and 4600 seem decent for a trade

(ALL ANALYSIS PRICES ARE IN GOLD FUTURES GCQ2026)

Today's trade using the same zones as the premarket plan the zone was poc and lvn around that area price stalled there and started aggression and gave a pretty decent trade

todays pre market plan is to wath this general area for a long opportunity as currenlty gold is weeker and silver is relatively stronger giving me a sence and intution that we can see some retracment to the 60s and 70s in the futures chart (which equates to apporx 45-35 ish area

THE BLUE BOX Is the POC of the fridays DELTA PROFILE and a h1 demand zone aswell

it will be nice to see how price reacts to asia low

i have tilted a bit today wont lie took a long it went in like 2rr profits went to be
then took anoher long it hitted sl
then took another long and it hitted sl but risk was already decreased and not soo much

Hello everyone,
Glad to be the part of this thread, been looking for some order flow thread for last few days, recently found this. Traded ICT for almost 1 year with a very little or no success. Switched to Order Flow 2 weeks back and finding it significantly great.
My system includes Volume Profiles of different sessions, Big Trades as to see absorption, exhaustion and seeing the momentum in price, cumulative delta to find divergences and heatmaps. Figuring out volume imprint but not finding it's alignment with the system. I trade NQ.

For today the bias is bullish, price is currently taking support from Previous Day VAH and overnight session VAL, there are some imbalances above that price might go up to fill. If price breaks below, will have to readjust the bias.