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Order Flow & Liquidity
Order Flow Trading Explained: Reading Who Is Really Buying and Selling
Order flow is the live record of orders hitting the market: who crossed the spread, how much size is resting at each price, and whether that size holds or disappears when price arrives.
Cumulative Volume Delta (CVD) Explained: Delta, Divergence and Absorption
Delta is aggressive buy volume minus aggressive sell volume for one candle. Cumulative volume delta (CVD) adds every candle's delta together, so you can see which side has been pressing harder over time.
Footprint Chart Explained: Bid × Ask, Imbalances and Point of Control
A footprint chart opens up each candle and shows how much was sold and bought aggressively at every price inside it, so you can see where buyers and sellers actually fought.
Liquidity Heatmap Explained: Resting Orders, Walls and Spoofing
A liquidity heatmap paints the order book over time: every resting limit order is a coloured cell at its price, brighter for bigger size, so you can watch liquidity build, move and disappear as price approaches.
Fair Value Gap (FVG) Explained: Institutional Gaps, CE and Retests
A fair value gap is a three-candle pattern where the middle candle moves so fast that the first and third candles' wicks do not overlap, leaving a price range that traded in one direction only.
Liquidity Sweep + Fair Value Gap Strategy: An Order Flow Playbook for Crypto
A liquidity sweep is a quick run through an obvious high or low that triggers the stops resting beyond it and then reverses. When that reversal is fast enough to leave a fair value gap, the retest of the gap gives a defined entry, a stop beyond the sweep and a target at the opposite liquidity.
Liquidation Heatmap Explained: How to Read Liquidation Levels and Clusters
A liquidation heatmap shows the prices where leveraged futures positions would be force-closed. Bright bands are liquidation clusters: places where a lot of forced buying or selling is waiting to be triggered.
Liquidation Cascade Explained: Long Squeezes, Short Squeezes and Chain Reactions
A liquidation cascade is a chain reaction: price hits one cluster of liquidations, the forced market orders push price into the next cluster, and that one fires too.
Liquidation Price Explained: How Leverage Decides Where You Get Liquidated
Your liquidation price is the price at which the exchange force-closes a leveraged position because the margin left can no longer cover the loss. The higher the leverage, the closer it is to your entry.
Momentum Indicators
RSI Explained: How the Relative Strength Index Works
RSI is a 0–100 momentum oscillator built from the size of recent gains versus recent losses, used to flag when a move may be overextended.
MACD Explained: Line, Signal Line and Histogram
MACD tracks the relationship between a fast and a slow EMA to show shifts in trend momentum, using a MACD line, a signal line, and a histogram.
Price Action
Support and Resistance Explained
Support and resistance are price areas where past buying or selling pressure was strong enough to stall or reverse a move — zones traders expect to matter again.
Fibonacci Retracement Explained
Fibonacci retracement levels mark where a pullback inside a larger trend has historically found buyers or sellers, based on ratios derived from the Fibonacci sequence.