Order flow & order book
Volume delta explained
Volume delta – aggressive buying minus aggressive selling
Quick definition: Delta is aggressive buying minus aggressive selling within one candle (or one price range).
Positive delta: aggressive buyers traded more; negative delta: aggressive sellers traded more.
CVD is delta added up over many candles.
💡 Example
📊 View on DeepDom →A 5-minute candle has 8 million USD of aggressive buying and 5 million USD of aggressive selling → the candle's delta is +3 million USD.
Related terms
CVD (Cumulative Volume Delta)CVD (Cumulative Volume Delta) is the running total of aggressive buying minus aggressive selling over time.…Footprint (candle by price level)A footprint view splits a candle by price level: each level shows how much aggressive buying and selling trade…Resting orders and filled tradesResting orders sit in the order book and have not traded — on the chart they are the shaded order-book cells. …
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