Plain-language guides to the tools professional traders use to read the market — footprint charts, delta, CVD, volume profile and the order book — written for Indian markets.
Order Flow Basics
What is order flow trading? — Order flow trading explained: what order flow analysis is, the four order flow chart types, how institutional order flow reads on the tape, and how it applies to NSE stocks and F&O.
What is a footprint chart? — Footprint charts show buy vs sell volume at every price inside each candle.
Volume trading, volumetric analysis and delta — Volume delta and volumetric trading explained: how each trade gets a side, per-candle vs cumulative delta, delta divergence, what volume analysis adds over a volume bar, and how to read delta charts on NSE.
Volume profile explained — Volume profile explained: POC, value area, high and low volume nodes, session vs composite vs anchored profiles, how it differs from market profile, and how to read it on NSE charts.
Market profile explained — Market profile explained for Indian markets: how TPO letters build the chart, initial balance, value area and POC, the common day types, and how market profile differs from volume profile.
Price action trading, and how order flow differs — Price action trading explained and compared with order flow: what each method reads, how key levels are drawn, where price action is blind, and how traders combine the two on NSE charts.
Footprint chart vs candlestick chart — Footprint and candlestick charts compared: what each shows, what each hides, when each wins, and how NSE traders use them together.
Big trades detection explained — How large-trade detection works: spotting institutional-size prints in the NSE tick stream, clustering, and what big-trade activity reveals.
Market Data
What delivery percentage means — What delivery percentage means on NSE, how it is calculated from bhavcopy data, and how traders read delivery spikes against price moves.
52-week high stocks, explained — What a 52-week high means, why the list is watched by momentum researchers, and how to read fresh highs with volume and delivery on NSE.
VWAP explained — VWAP is the volume-weighted average price of the session.
How to read market depth on NSE — A practical guide to NSE market depth: reading the 5-level book, bid-ask totals, order counts, and the tricks visible size can play.
The NSE bhavcopy, explained — What the NSE bhavcopy contains, when it is published, and how OHLC, delivery and volume data flow from it into screeners and stock pages.
NSE bhavcopy download guide — Where to download the NSE bhavcopy, what each file contains, the sec_bhavdata_full columns explained (including DELIV_PER), and pre-processed alternatives.
Iceberg orders, explained — Iceberg orders hide institutional size by showing only a sliver of the real order.
Footprint imbalances, explained properly — What a footprint imbalance is, why it is measured diagonally, what stacked imbalances mean, and how unfinished auctions form — explained with NSE context.
AI & Analysis
AI chart analysis explained — How AI chart analysis actually works: what a model can read from a chart, why deterministic engines and language models do different jobs, the failure modes to check for, and what it cannot tell you.
Order flow for options traders — How order flow analysis applies to NSE index options: premium footprints, delta on option contracts, OI context, and what differs from equity order flow.