Skip to content
Browse the docs

Footprint

Every candle opened up: how much traded at each price, and whether buyers or sellers were the aggressors.

Footprint on a 5 minute BTC chart, sell and buy volume printed at each price inside every candle

Turning it on

  • Press / on the chart, type footprint, press Enter.
  • Zoom in. As the candles get wider the footprint goes from plain candles to heat strips, then mini profiles, then the numbers.

Reading a cell

  • Sell x buy. Volume that hit the bid on the left, volume that lifted the offer on the right.
  • Colour. Green where buyers dominated the row, red where sellers did. Stronger colour, bigger imbalance.
  • Imbalances. Rows where one side outweighs the other by your ratio. Stacked imbalances mark zones where one side kept pressing.
  • POC. The price with the most volume in the candle. Naked POCs are ones price has not been back to.
  • Unfinished auction. A candle high or low that traded on both sides. Price often comes back to finish it.

Settings worth knowing

Cells show
Sell x buy, delta, volume, profile bars, or your own mix of up to four columns.
Range profile
Sums the candles in view into one profile at the chart edge.
Units
Coins or US dollars.
Row size
Auto, or a multiple of the tick size.
Bar statistics
Volume, delta and trades under each candle.

Good to know

  • Covers BTC, ETH, SOL and HYPE on every time interval except weekly, built from Binance, Bybit, OKX and Hyperliquid perp trades.
  • The trade data behind it goes back 72 hours.
  • On BTC and ETH it also works on tick, range and volume bars.