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 in plain language: footprint charts, delta, DOM and volume profile — and how they apply to NSE stocks and F&O.
What is a footprint chart? — Footprint charts show buy vs sell volume at every price inside each candle.
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.
Order Flow Tools
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.