Options Orderflow is an options order flow footprint: it places each option trade at the stock price it filled at and shows, candle by candle, whether more premium was bought or sold there.
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Select a candle for its figures and its price ladder, or change the row size. The sample is the homepage tour’s simulated DEMO session.
Inferred from where each trade filled against the quote. Describes activity, not advice.
Bought vs sold: $553K more sold than bought
| Price | Bought | Sold | Net premium |
|---|---|---|---|
| 530.00 | $7.9K | $97.3K | −$89.4K |
| 529.75 | $27.8K | $168K | −$141K |
| 529.50 | $126K | $367K | −$241K |
| 529.25 | $82.9K | $147K | −$64.1K |
| 529.00 | $76.0K | $94.5K | −$18.5K |
Price labels mark the start of each band. Bought and sold describe the trade, not a view on the stock: a bought put is a purchase that leans bearish.
What each mark shows, how to read an imbalance and a stack of them, and how the footprint sits beside the chart’s key levels.
Each candle carries a bar for every stock price band it traded through, and a cell in the strip under it.
See where option premium was bought or sold within the candle.
Read each candle’s balance in the strip under the candles.
Longer bars and deeper cells mark where one side outweighed the other.
Compare the two sides at each price and in each candle.
Look for neighbouring bands that lean the same way.
Put the footprint next to the chart’s Ceiling, Floor and Flip Line.
Keep the footprint and the price chart on one dashboard.
Know what a blue or orange bar does and doesn’t tell you.
A footprint chart shows the trading inside each candle, price by price. Options Orderflow places each option trade at the stock price reported with it and shows, for each price band, whether more option premium was bought or sold.
By where each trade filled against the quote: at or near the ask counts as bought, at or near the bid as sold. Mid-quote fills, multi-leg and complex trades, and trades without a usable quote stay unclassified; their premium counts in every total but not in the bars.
Not on its own. Bought and sold describe the trade: a bought call leans bullish and a bought put leans bearish. The Directional view shows bearish and bullish premium by strike.
One expiry at a time: the latest session’s 0DTE expiry, or the nearest listed one, by default. Candles run from 1 minute to 4 hours for the latest trading session.
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