The order-flow DOM big in the CENTER (footprint + meter built in), standalone Footprint left, T&S + Order-Flow Gauge right
The order-flow DOM big in the CENTER (footprint + meter built in), standalone Footprint left, T&S + Order-Flow Gauge right
Use it when: When the question is entirely about who is buying and selling right now, and you want nothing else on screen.
The pure microstructure desk: no news, no macro, no watchlist. The book, the footprint, the tape, the session profile and dealer gamma - five views of the same order flow.
The combination that pays here is a gamma level with real resting size behind it in the book. Either alone gets run; together they hold more often than not.
Same read, thinner book. The footprint carries more weight on NQ because the resting size is less informative.
The book and footprint work; the Gamma Stream does not cover crude, so treat this as a four-panel desk on CL.
Presets in the menu bar, under the category this desk belongs to — one click applies the whole layout, and a checkmark tracks which one is active.Ctrl+P, which finds it by name.Add Panel menu.The tell: Absorption is the read this desk exists for: heavy prints hitting a level with the resting size holding and the delta going nowhere. When you see it, the level is being defended by somebody who is not in a hurry.
6 panels, read straight from the preset definition in the desktop build:
These desks assume the theory. If any of it is unfamiliar, the background reading is on the learn side: