AK FlowBook: the whole order-flow system on one chart
The whole order-flow system on one chart.
This is AK FlowBook for NinjaTrader 8 on gold futures, Wed Oct 7 at 08:31 NY, a few minutes after a $50 flush.
What you are looking at, part by part:
1. MBO Price Map: the order book beside the price axis, split into each resting order in queue order (V9 C7 = 9 lots, 7th in line).
2. Delta: aggressive buys minus sells on every candle. -624 with an $11 drop, +221 with almost no move.
3. Big trades: 459 lots in one box, rebuilt from 360 separate prints. Dots for single aggressive orders.
4. Icebergs: 122 lots traded at 4100.0 against an order that showed 5 at a time.
5. Levels and sessions: POC, VAH, VAL, VWAPs, naked levels, session highs and lows with touches today and the XAUUSD equivalent.
6. Event labels: REJ, SWP, ABS, DL, IMB, CVD, EXH, TRAP, printed near important levels.
7. Context panel and info line: auction state, location, flow, book control, activity, spread, basis, data health.
Every part explained: akorderflow.com/docs/ninjatrader/
Waitlist: akorderflow.com/ak-flowbook/
Redrawn from real gold futures data. The layers describe what traded and what rests in the book. They are not signals.









