How Order Flow Delta Can help your Trading?

How To Use Delta In Your Trading

Delta is an important part of order flow trading. Delta is the difference between the volume bought from the offer and the volume bought from the bid.

It will either be positive or negative and in rare coincidental instances it may even be zero. I say coincidental because it is often just luck that the delta finishes at 0.

So what is the importance of delta?

Well, there are a few ways to interpret the delta. On a per bar basis it will tell you the strength of the buying or selling in a particular bar. If the delta is a big positive number it tells you aggressive buyers were in control of the bar. If the delta is a big negative number it tells you aggressive sellers were in control of the bar.In an up market the aggressive buyers should be in control.In a down market the aggressive sellers should be in control.

When a market turns from a demand driven market to a supply driven market the delta can show that to you as it is happening. In other words when a market is rally because of strong demand, once the demand starts to wane and supply takes over, the market sells off and prices drop.When a market makes a bottom the opposite is true.

Look for delta to become positive and the market to move away from the low. For a market to move higher aggressive buying needs to come, traders need to be lifting the offers. This will show up in the delta.

If you are just following a regular bar or candlestick chart you are not getting a complete picture of what is happening in the market. What would you rather do? Look at a chart that isn’t giving you all the pieces to the trading puzzle or look at a chart that is screaming at you “hey idiot, demand is taking over from supply, don’t miss the move!”

There is more to delta than meets the eye. If you are not using it in your trading, you really owe it to yourself to start looking at it and understanding it. (Courtesy - Mike)

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Michel Valtos - Developer of Order flow Trading Course, Professional Institutional Trader, Founder of  orderflows.com,

have been trading for banks (JP Morgan and Commerzbank) as well commodity trading houses (Cargill and EDF Man) and for myself. He created orderflows.com to help traders understand and profit with order flow.

In 2013 at the age of 44 he left JP Morgan and decided to trade for himself based on what I had learned along the way. The Futures industry has changed for the retail trader. Commission are now very low, real time data is not expensive and computers are cheap.

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Single Prints – Last Buyer / Last Seller in Hidden Trade Locations

 Markets turn when the last buyer has bought at a high or when the last seller has sold at a low. With traditional bar charts you only see the low of the bar or the high of the bar. You cannot judge the internal buying or selling that has been apparent inside the bar.

What is the importance of the last buyer / last seller?

 It is important because it potentially signals the end of the move. No one wants to buy or sell anymore. The price has gone too high or too low. It is at an extreme.

Think of it in real life terms. Imagine you sell beer. There is a lot of demand so you raise prices, but people keep buying. At some point people have drank a lot of beer and don’t want to drink anymore and by now the price is too high. So you might get 1 or 2 more beer sales before everyone stops buying beer and you find yourself lowering the price to get more interest and get people to buy again.

One of the truths about the markets is that when prices go up but people stop buying, prices go down. Sometimes it is quite obvious. You can see it in the Orderflow generated charts.It works both on short term and medium term charts. It can be used as a scalp trade or a swing trade.
Courtesy - Mike