Orderflows Unlocked

Advanced Trade Setup Encyclopedia

Hidden Order Flow Secrets: Exclusive Trading Setups Never Before Revealed
Welcome to Orderflows Unlocked: The Advanced Trade Encyclopedia

Order flow represents the purest form of market truth. While price charts tell
you what has happened, order flow reveals why it happened and, more
importantly, what's likely to happen next. This exclusive collection unveils
previously guarded setups that decode institutional footprints in real-time
market action.
Here are 91 documented, never-before-released order flow trading setups
that reveal the true mechanics of institutional price movement. This isn't just
another collection of trading patterns – it's the culmination of years spent
decoding the footprints.

Rather than looking at individual signals in isolation, I've mapped out 91

powerful combinations that reveal the complete story behind price
movement. Each setup shows you exactly how to layer different order flow
elements - from delta divergences and exhaustion prints to stacked
imbalances and value area dynamics - creating a clear picture of institutional
positioning and probable price direction.
This isn't about memorizing 91 different patterns. It's about understanding
how institutional order flow elements work together to tell a story.
Delta Divergence needs to use the Swing Filter, otherwise it is just green
candles with positive delta or red bars with negative delta.

Reversals offer some of the biggest moves in the market, but you must
realize that you may get stopped out more frequently due to the nature of
fighting a trend, false starts before the reversal actually happens.

Remember, not all moves have everything going on at the same time in the
order flow. Sometimes it is one thing, other times it is another thing.
Have basic defaults in your head for Delta Breakout, Resting Liquidity,
Vertical Liquidity, Exhaustion Prints, Extreme Delta Threshold, Extreme
Delta/Volume Threshold, Market Sweep Detector, Market Weakness
Detector, Small Min/Max Delta Threshold, Stacked Imbalance, Thin Prints,
Volume Imbalance
Momentum -

There are several ways to determine momentum in the market. Is the market
trading above or below VWAP? Or a Moving Average? Or is the slope of
VWAP or the MA increasing or decreasing. It doesn’t matter how you
determine momentum, just determine it.
Swing Filter -

To determine a swing high, first decide how many bars you want to look back
over. For example, 5. If you use 5 as your Swing Filter, for a swing high, the
high of the current bar has to be the highest high over the last 5 bars. For a
swing low, the low has to be the lowest low over the last 5 bars. Keep it
simple.
Abandoned Value Area –

When a value area is not traded into in the next bar.

Chart Examples - Abandoned Value Area
Accumulation/Distribution.

Simply look at where the volume is trading in the bar. If the heaviest volume
is trading on the bid side at a price in a green candle, then we call that
accumulation. If the heaviest volume at a price is trading on the offer side at
a price in a red candle we call that distribution.
Chart Examples – Bullish Accumulation.
Chart Examples – Bearish Distribution
Aligned POC.

When two consecutive POCs (Point of Controls) appear at the same level
over two consecutive bars. This nuance can act as near term support or
resistance.
Chart Examples – Bullish Aligned POC.
Chart Examples – Bearish Aligned POC.
Delta Breakout.

When there is an increase in delta, either positive (bullish) or negative

(bearish), that will cause a delta breakout.

You have to define the amount of delta. Good starting point is 25 or 50.
Chart Examples – Bullish Delta Breakout.
Chart Examples – Bearish Delta Breakout.
Delta Divergence.

Occurs when the market makes a new or equal high on negative delta with
red candle or makes a new or equal low on positive delta with a green
candle. To take it another step further, you can also use swing highs and
swing lows.

If you don’t use a swing filter, then it is just a green candle with positive delta
or a red candle with negative delta, which is what you expect.
Chart Examples – Bullish Delta Divergence.
Chart Examples – Bearish Delta Divergence.
Delta Tail.

A bullish Delta Tail occurs when there is a green up candle with negative
delta at the bottom bid side of the bar and the rest of the price levels in the
bar, on the way up is positive delta. What is happening is passive buyers
were absorbing the aggressive selling at the low of the bar, then aggressive
buyers stepped in and dominated every price on the way back up,
overwhelming the aggressive sellers. For a bearish Delta Tail the opposite is
true, in a red down candle, the top offer side of the bar has positive delta at
that price level and all the remaining price levels on the way down have
negative delta.
Chart Examples – Bullish Delta Tail.
Chart Examples – Bearish Delta Tail.
Exhaustion Prints.

Measures market exhaustion seen in the edge of bars.

Bearish Exhaustion Prints appear on the top offer price field on red down
candles.
Bullish Exhaustion Prints appear on the bottom bid price field on green up
candles.

General settings are 9 or 5 or 3 and in some markets, you can use 1.

Chart Examples – Bullish Exhaustion Prints
Chart Examples – Bearish Exhaustion Prints
Extreme Delta Threshold.

If Delta is within 95% of the Max Delta, that is bullish. If Delta is within 95% of
the Min Delta, that is bearish.

You can adjust the threshold level.

Chart Examples – Bullish Extreme Delta Threshold.
Chart Examples – Bearish Extreme Delta Threshold.
Extreme Delta/Volume Threshold.

This is a measure of Delta/Volume (bar delta divided by bar volume). Default

is 25% which means if the bar’s delta is greater than 25% of the bar’s volume
it is a sign of strong aggressiveness. If the Delta field is green or red, it is
considered normal trading conditions. If the Delta/Volume is above positive
+25% that is bullish. If the Delta/Volume is below negative -25% that is
negative.
Chart Examples – Bullish Extreme Delta/Volume Threshold.
Chart Examples – Bearish Extreme Delta/Volume Threshold.
Imbalance Reload.

An Imbalance Reload occurs when you either have two buying imbalances at
the same price level over 2 consecutive bars or two selling imbalances at the
same price level over 2 consecutive bars.
Chart Examples – Bullish Imbalance Reload.
Chart Examples – Bearish Imbalance Reload.
Imbalance Reversal.

Reads the order flow at the edges of bars for reversals in the order flow. A
sign of potentially trapped traders. A reversal indicator, obviously, based on
the name.

A bullish imbalance reversal will color in the bottom two bid prices in a green
up candle.
A bearish imbalance reversal will color in the top two bid prices in a red down
candle.
Chart Examples – Imbalance Reversal.
Chart Examples – Bearish Imbalance Reversal.
Inverse Volume Imbalance.

Inverse Imbalances are a sign of trapped traders who were looking for a
breakout that never happened. It is important to watch how the market reacts
when the market returns to the trap level. Basically, an Inverse Imbalance is
the opposite of a Stacked Volume Imbalance. These are traders who are long
and wrong or are short at lows.
Chart Examples – Bullish Inverse Volume Imbalance.
Chart Examples – Bearish Inverse Volume Imbalance.
Market Sweep Detector.

Detects potential market sweep activity across several price levels. A market
sweep occurs when a trader trades through several price levels instantly.
They lift several consecutive offers or hit several consecutive bids at once.

Good for momentum trading as it is a sign of strong buying or selling.

Be aware if trading in thinly traded markets, the lack of volume traded may
look like Sweep activity, but is more likely just due to lack of volume. This
applies to markets like NQ, MNQ, RTY, YM, FDAX.
Chart Examples – Bullish Market Sweep Detector.
Chart Examples – Bearish Market Sweep Detector.
Market Weakness Detector

Signals when order flow is exhibiting weaking on a move up (bearish sign) or

weaking on a move down (bullish sign). Buying Market Weakness means
that while the market is moving lower, the aggressive selling taking place is
getting weaker which often signals a rebound in price as sellers are not as
strong as before. Selling Weakness means that while the market is moving
higher, the aggressive buying taking place is getting weaker on the way up
which often signals a drop in price.

By default, this is a reversal signal.

Chart Examples – Bullish Market Weakness Detector.
Chart Examples – Bearish Market Weakness Detector.
Open POC.

An Open POC is a POC that is higher or lower than the previous bar’s high or
low. A bullish Open POC occurs when the current POC is higher than the
previous bar(s) high. A bearish Open POC occurs when the current POC is
lower than the previous bar(s) low.

I like to filter the Open POC to 5, comparing the current bar’s POC to the last
5 of previous bars highs/lows.
Chart Examples – Bullish Open POC.
Chart Examples – Bearish Open POC.
Orderflows Gaps.

An Orderflows Gaps occurs when there is a shift in value taking place in the
order flow and the market is starting to pick up momentum. There is a gap
between the value area of bar 1 to the value area of bar 2. The value areas
of each bar are not overlapping.
Chart Examples – Bullish Orderflows Gaps.
Chart Examples – Bearish Orderflows Gaps.
Orderflows Sequencing

Highlights aggressive traders getting past larger and larger bids or offers in
the order book. Helps see where there are strong buying or selling taking
place as the market is trading through resting stacked liquidity.
Chart Examples – Bullish Orderflows Sequencing.
Chart Examples – Bearish Orderflows Sequencing.
Price Action Divergence.

Price Action Divergence occurs when a bar’s delta diverges from its price
action. Normally, green up candles have positive delta and red down candles
have negative delta. In Bullish Price Action Divergence, there is a green up
candle with negative delta which is a sign of demand in the market. In
Bearish Price Action Divergence there is a red down candle with positive
delta, which is a sign of supply in the market.
Chart Examples – Bullish Price Action Divergence.
Chart Examples – Bearish Price Action Divergence.
POC Slingshot

A POC (Point of Control) trade setup.

Bullish POC Slingshot occurs when there are two consecutive green candles
and current candle’s POC is lower than the previous bar’s POC, also a green
candle.

Bearish POC Slingshot occurs when there are two consecutive red candles
and current candle’s POC is higher than the previous bar’s POC, also a red
candle.
Chart Examples. – Bullish POC Slingshot.
Chart Examples. – Bearish POC Slingshot.
POC Wave.

A POC Wave is a three-bar POC setup. A Bullish POC Wave occurs when
there is a red-down candle, followed by a green-up candle with a lower POC
than the red-down candle, then followed by another green-up candle with a
POC higher than the POC level of the red-down candle. A Bearish POC
Wave occurs when there is a green-up candle, followed by a red-down
candle with a POC higher than the green-up candle, then followed by another
red-down candle with a POC lower than the POC level in the green-up
candle.
Chart Examples – Bullish POC Wave.
Chart Examples – Bearish POC Wave.
Resting Liquidity.

Resting Liquidity is big, strong passive bids and offers in the market that
trade which can often act as support or resistance.
Chart Examples – Bullish Resting Liquidity.
Chart Examples – Bearish Resting Liquidity.
Retail Suck.

A Retail Suck occurs when there is heavy volume on the bottom bid side of
the bar that decreases on the way up or heavy volume on the top offer side
that decreases on the way down. A sign of absorption as traders are being
“sucked” in by strong passive traders.
Chart Examples – Bullish Retail Suck.
Chart Examples – Bearish Retail Suck.
Small Min/Max Delta.

When the Min or Max Delta is between 0 and 3 (3 is the default setting, which
you can adjust) meaning there is very small Max Delta or very small Min
Delta in a bar, the Max or Min Delta field will be colors. Max Delta indicates
how strong positive delta was in a bar and Min Delta indicates how strong
negative delta was in a bar. When a bar has very little Max Delta that means
aggressive buyers never had control of the bar. When a bar has very little or
no Min Delta that means sellers never had control of the bar.
Orderflows Trader 7 – Chart Examples – Bullish Small Min/Max Delta.
Orderflows Trader 7 – Chart Examples – Bearish Small Min/Max Delta.
Stacked Imbalance.

A Stacked Imbalance is when there are 3 (you can adjust it) or more
imbalances stacked on top of each other in a bar.

A Bullish Stacked Imbalance (Stacked Buying Imbalance) occurs when there

are 3 or more buying imbalances in a green up candle.

A Bearish Stacked Imbalance (Stacked Selling Imbalance) occurs when there

are 3 or more selling imbalances in a red down candle.

When combining with other aspects of order flow, I suggest testing out a
value of 2 stacked imbalances.
Chart Examples – Bullish Stacked Imbalance.
Chart Examples – Bearish Stacked Imbalance.
Thin Prints.

Thin Prints in a bar is a sign of momentum. What is happening is there is

very little counter trade in the two-way auction. Similar to a Market Sweep,
the difference being a bar can exhibit several thin prints spread out in a bar,
while a Market Sweep is looking for activity over a consecutive range.

Thin Prints exist in most markets. However, if you are trading a market with
thin volume you will see a lot of Thin Prints simply because there is little
volume trading.
Chart Examples – Bullish Thin Print.
Chart Examples – Bearish Thin Prints.
Vertical Liquidity.

Vertical Liquidity occurs when there is heavier than normal volume being
traded on the bid or offer over consecutive levels.
Chart Examples – Bullish Vertical Liquidity.
Chart Examples – Bearish Vertical Liquidity.
Volume Decline (sequential decline)

Volume Decline occurs when volume being sold into the bid declines of
bought from the offer declines.
Bullish Volume Decline occurs in green-up candles when the volume being
sold into the bottom bid side of the bar decline from the 3rd price level to the
2nd price level to the 1st price level. Aggressive sellers are getting weaker in
pushing the market lower.
Bearish Volume Decline occurs in red-down candles when the volume being
bought from the offer side declines from the 3rd price level to the 2nd price
level to the 1st price level. Aggressive buyers are getting weaker in pushing
the market higher.
Chart Examples – Bullish Volume Decline.
Chart Examples – Bearish Volume Decline.
Volume Imbalance.

Multiple Imbalance – draws an OliveDrab colored box around the bar when
there is multiple buying imbalances in a green-up candle.
Chart Examples – Bullish Multiple Volume Imbalance.
Chart Examples – Bearish Multiple Volume Imbalance.
Zero Print.

A Zero Print will occur at the edges of candles.

A Buying Zero Print will appear on the bottom bid side of a bar.
A Selling Zero Print will appear on the top offer side of a bar.

Generally, a zero print is a sign of momentum as there is lack of two-way

trading.
Chart Examples – Bullish Zero Print.
Chart Examples – Bearish Zero Print.
End of the examples.
Let’s go to the setups