A full-screen map of resting order-book liquidity over time, with trade bubbles, a price ladder on the right and volume bars below.
In plain English
What it shows
- A map of resting order-book size over time: the glow runs from deep blue (small) to yellow, orange and red (the biggest). A price line, trade bubbles, a book ladder and volume bars sit on top.
How traders use it
- See where large orders waited and where they were removed.
- Use the contrast and size filters to find the view you like.
What it does not tell you
- It describes resting orders and prints. It does not predict anything.
- Futures depth for this tool is limited for now; crypto works for Pro members.
Overview
Liquidity Map turns the chart into a view of the order book. The size resting at each price shows as a glow, from deep blue for small size to yellow, orange and red for the biggest walls.
A thin price line runs through it, with bubbles for traded volume, an order-book ladder on the right and volume bars along the bottom.
How it works
For crypto it reads the exchange's public order book and trade stream, plus recorded book history. Each time bucket becomes one column of the heatmap. A wall that is pulled or filled simply stops.
Trade bubbles are sized by traded volume and split green and red by the share of aggressive buying and selling. The right-hand columns show the current size per price and the running total from the best price outward.
How to use it
- Use it to see where size is resting and whether price trades into it or away from it.
- Some traders watch bubbles that appear right at a bright wall.
- Use the ladder to read the size near the current price at a glance.
- Turn Hide candles off if you want to keep your candles under the map.
These are ways some traders read it, for learning. They are not trade signals.
Settings
| Setting | Default |
|---|---|
| Hide candles (show a price line)On: the map covers the chart and a thin yellow line shows the price. Off: the map is see-through, candles stay visible. | On |
| Resting liquidity heatmapEach band is size resting in the order book at a price. Blue = small, yellow and orange = large, red and white = the biggest. A band ends where the orders were pulled or traded. | On |
| ContrastHigher = more of the map lights up. Lower = only the biggest sizes stand out. The colours are scaled to the sizes in view (the largest 1.5% are clipped), so it adapts as you scroll. | 1 |
| Filter | |
| Min size (coins / contracts, 0 = off)Hide resting sizes below this. Crypto: in coins (BTC, ETH). Futures: in contracts. | 0 |
| Show from colourHide cells below this colour step. The colours of the cells that stay do not change.Options: All, Blue and above, Light blue and above, Yellow and above, Orange and above, Red only | All |
| Max size (coins / contracts, 0 = off)Hide the giant outliers above this. | 0 |
| Top N levels per column (0 = off)Show only the N largest levels at each moment in time. | 0 |
| History (minutes)How far back the map reaches. Crypto uses the stored order book history plus this page. Futures builds from the moment you connect, up to 2 hours. | 120 |
| Trade bubblesEach ball is the volume traded in a short time at one price. Size = volume. The green part is aggressive buying, the red part aggressive selling. | On |
| Min bubble size (0 = biggest on screen)Hide bubbles with less volume than this (coins for crypto, contracts for futures). 0 keeps the biggest ones that fit. | 0 |
| Bubble size % | 100 |
| Order book ladder (right side)Left column: the size resting at each price now (red above the price = asks, green below = bids). Right column: the running total from the best price outward. Display only. | On |
| Volume barsTraded volume per time bucket along the bottom, green = buying, red = selling. | On |
| Time grid | On |
| Colour scale (blue = small, yellow = large, red = biggest)Draws the colour scale with the sizes it stands for at the top left. | On |
Notes and limits
- It describes resting orders and prints. It does not predict anything and has no order buttons.
- Futures depth for this tool is limited to admins for now; crypto works for Pro members.
- Contrast and size filters change only how the map looks, not the data.
Education only. Not financial advice. Indicators mark what happened on the chart; they do not predict what price will do. Trading futures, forex, crypto and other markets carries a high level of risk and may not be suitable for everyone.