Order flow trading

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Order Flow Trading is a financial markets trading strategy focused on the orders that participants have, and will, enter into the order book. Other popular forms of market/trading analysis include technical analysis, sentiment analysis and fundamental analysis. To earn a profit via trading one must enter a position in advance of a price change, hold through that price change, and exit once the move is completed. Since price change is the result of participant order activity, order flow traders analyze order flow in an effort to predict when and in which direction the next exploitable change in price will occur. This is done by watching the order book and also footprint charts. Order flow analysis allows traders to see what type of orders are being placed at a certain time in the market, e.g. the amount of Buy and Sell orders at a given price point. Traders can use Order Flow analysis to see the subsequent impact on the price of the market by these orders and therefore make predictions on...

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