Description
DRX OrderFlux turns the tick stream into an order flow chart: who is paying up,
where they are being stopped, and which levels the auction keeps coming back to.
WHAT IT DRAWS
Bid x ask footprint. Every bar is split into price levels with buy and sell
activity side by side, so a bar is no longer one candle but the argument that
built it. Five views: Bid x Ask, Delta, Heatmap, Profile and TPO.
Imbalances and stacked walls. A level where one side is beaten by the ratio you
set is marked, and a run of them is labelled - stacked imbalances are where the
next move usually starts.
Absorption and unfinished auctions. Heavy activity that fails to move price, and
extremes that closed without being finished, are marked as they form.
Single prints. Levels the market touched once and left behind.
Volume profile in its own framed panel, pinned to the right edge with POC, VAH
and VAL, plus session VWAP.
TPO time blocks, one profile per session with its own POC, coloured warm to cool
across the day - so yesterday's shape stands beside today's and you can see
whether the auction has moved.
Delta lane along the foot of the chart, on one line so the bars can actually be
compared, with the loud ones outlined.
Market read. Deliberately quiet. It speaks only when price rejects a level it
cannot get through, or breaks one with volume, delta and range behind it. Every
threshold is a multiple of the instrument's own recent average, so gold and a
forex pair calibrate themselves - there is nothing to tune per symbol.
Tape panel. Speed of the tape against its own normal, buying against selling
pressure, and a liquidity warning when the book thins out and the spread widens.
Position panel. Entry, stop, target, PnL, pips and R:R - and the chart itself
gets three thin lines and nothing more. No candle is ever covered.
Your layout is remembered per symbol and timeframe, so the desk you build is the
desk you come back to.
HOW TO USE IT
Works on any symbol and any timeframe. It is at its best on the intraday charts
where order flow lives: M1 to H1 on gold, indices, oil and the major forex pairs.
Add DRX Footprint Lower underneath for volume, delta, cumulative delta or buy vs
sell flow in its own pane.
ABOUT THE DATA - PLEASE READ
cTrader tick data carries time, bid and ask. It does not carry trade size, and no
indicator on this platform can invent it. DRX OrderFlux therefore measures tick
activity, not traded contracts - the same basis MetaTrader order flow tools use on
forex and CFDs. It reads the balance of aggression honestly and it is genuinely
useful, but if you need exchange-traded contract volume, this is not that, and I
would rather tell you now than take your money.
Depth of market is a broker feed. Most cTrader CFD accounts publish only a few
aggregated levels, so no order book ladder is included - what the book does tell
us, a liquidity warning, is in the tape panel instead.
Trading involves risk. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
Summary
Key features include five distinct views: Bid x Ask footprint, Delta, Heatmap, Volume Profile, and TPO (Time Price Opportunity). The indicator highlights imbalances and stacked walls where one side dominates, absorption zones where heavy activity fails to move price, unfinished auctions, and single prints—levels touched only once. The volume profile panel shows POC (Point of Control), VAH (Value Area High), VAL (Value Area Low), and session VWAP. TPO profiles per session are color-coded to compare auction shapes across days.
Additional tools include a delta lane for comparing bars, a market read panel that signals price rejections or breaks with volume and delta confirmation, a tape panel showing tape speed and liquidity warnings, and a position panel displaying entry, stop, target, PnL, pips, and risk-reward ratio. Layouts are saved per symbol and timeframe for consistent workspace setup.
DRXFootprint uses cTrader tick data, measuring tick activity rather than traded contract volume, and includes liquidity warnings based on broker depth of market data.
