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The web platform carries the same order-flow indicators as the desktop application. You turn them on from the indicators menu in the top toolbar, and each one opens its own settings dialog.

Several settings repeat across the indicators that draw in their own pane below the chart — Show last value, Show zero line, Show grid, Show grid labels and Indicator Height. They do what their names suggest, and they are described once here rather than under every indicator.

FPBS — Footprint Bar Statistics

The Main tab of the Footprint Bar Statistics dialog

FPBS attaches a block of per-candle numbers to each bar. The tabs down the left side are the rows you can add: Volume, Delta, CVD, POC and H-L. Use + Add to build the stack, and each row gets its own source and colour settings.

Row Height sets how tall each row in the block is drawn.

Hide zeros leaves empty values blank instead of printing a zero, which keeps the block readable on quiet candles.

Legend on the right moves the row labels to the right-hand side of the block.

Export .xlsx writes the statistics for the loaded candles out to a spreadsheet. This is the way to get chart data out of the platform for your own analysis or journal.

TSize — Trade Size

The Trade Size indicator settings dialog

TSize shows which market orders dominate the current rotation, split into seven size groups. Red marks market sells, blue marks market buys. The group boundaries come from statistical distribution research done per pair, so the defaults already fit the instrument you are on.

Color sensitivity controls how sharply the colour responds to size.

Show minimum volume hides trades below the value you set, which cuts the smallest prints out of the display.

Delta mode switches the indicator to show net buying against selling rather than each side separately.

Shade / Tint changes how the colours are graded across the size groups.

Sells (bids hit) / Buys (asks taken) color sets the two colours, and Background / Border color handles the surround.

Show level 1 through Show level 7 turn the individual size groups on and off. Level 7 is the largest. Switching off the smaller levels is the quickest way to leave only significant size on screen.

DBars — Delta Bars and CVD

The Delta Bars settings dialog, showing the delta and CVD options

Delta Bars show the net of buying against selling for each candle, and the same dialog carries the CVD settings, since CVD is the running total of that delta.

CVD mode switches the pane from per-candle delta bars to cumulative volume delta.

CVD overlay main chart / auto scale draws CVD over the price chart instead of in its own pane, with an option to scale it automatically to fit.

CVD type sets the accumulation period. Visible Range restarts the count from whatever is on screen, so the reading is always relative to what you are looking at.

Short numbers abbreviates large figures.

CVD full height lets the CVD drawing use the whole pane height.

Cumulative histogram draws the accumulation as bars rather than a line.

Fill sides and Side fill opacity shade the area under the plot.

Delta positive/negative color sets the two bar colours.

Show Delta divergence marks candles where delta and price moved in opposite directions — price closing higher on negative delta, or lower on positive delta.

The Delta Bars settings dialog scrolled down to the CVD line and pane options

Show CVD line draws the cumulative line on top of the delta bars, and CVD line overlay main chart moves that line onto the price chart.

CVD line type sets the accumulation period for the line specifically. Because the line has its own period, you can run session-based CVD as a line while the bars below show something shorter.

CVD line width and CVD line color handle its appearance.

OI — Open Interest

The Open Interest indicator settings dialog

Open interest is the total number of contracts in the market. Read together with price, it tells you whether a move is bringing new positions in or closing old ones out:

  • Price up, OI up — new longs
  • Price down, OI up — new shorts
  • Price down, OI down — long covering
  • Price up, OI down — short covering

Show visible range delta reports the change in open interest across what is on screen rather than an absolute figure.

OI Color Up and OI Color Down set the two colours.

Show bar statistics prints a per-bar figure alongside the plot.

Statistics ZigZag draws a zig-zag over the indicator, filtering out moves smaller than ZigZag leg minimum %. Raise that value to leave only the larger swings.

Sync all ZigZags with ties the reversal points of this zig-zag to another indicator's, so they turn at the same places and can be compared directly.

NL and NS — Net Longs and Net Shorts

The Net Longs settings dialog, showing the display and colour options

Net Longs is an experimental indicator that estimates the net amount of futures contracts entering or leaving the market. It depends on fast open-interest reporting from the exchange, so treat the reading as an estimate rather than a measurement.

Net Shorts uses exactly the same settings. Everything below applies to both dialogs.

Histogram mode draws the values as bars instead of a line.

NL type sets the accumulation period, the same way CVD type does.

Full height lets the plot use the whole pane.

New longs color and Longs exit color separate positions being opened from positions being closed.

Show price pushing side highlights which side is driving price rather than simply which side is more active.

The Net Longs settings dialog scrolled down to the bar statistics and pane options

Show bar statistics prints a per-bar figure — NL Close uses the closing value of each bar.

Statistics ZigZag, ZigZag leg minimum % and Sync all ZigZags with work as they do on Open Interest. Syncing the NL and OI zig-zags is a quick way to line the two indicators up against each other.

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