Footprint Indicator
What Is The Footprint Indicator?
This indicator provides a set of Footprint (Number Bar) variations to Bookmap. The Footprint can be:
- time interval based (between 30 seconds and 30 minutes)
- reversal bar based
- range bar based
- volume bar based.
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How To Configure Footprint
The first dropdown list - Footprint Bar Type - lets you choose between the different bar types. Based on this choice the setting below will change depending on the bar type configuration.
Time Interval Type
Time Interval offers time-based bars. At every interval a new bar will be formed. The footprint interval can be set between 30 seconds and 30 minutes.
For example, a setting of 30 seconds will overlay a footprint bar every half a minute:
Reversal Type
The Reversal bar type draws a new bar when the price reverses from the extremes (high or low) by a certain number of ticks. The price indication for the new bar is marked by a small green/red icon on the current timeline. The Reversal bar lets you to choose the number of ticks after a new bar is formed (positive round number),
On the heatmap, the configuration above displays like this.
Range Type
The Range bar is a bar type with a defined range. If the price move goes beyond the range, a new bar is formed. This configuration requires that the range of the bar is defined in ticks (positive round number)
A 10-tick range bar is shown below:
Volume Type
The Volume bar represents a predefined amount of traded volume, if the volume exceeds the limit, a new bar will be drawn. The Volume Bar type requires the amount of volume after which a new bar should form (positive round number)
Here is an example of the above configuration
Other Settings
The bar (footprint column) width is freely configurable to fit visual preferences and if the type allows, can be left or right aligned. A delta bar with a 160 width is shown below.
The indicator offers independent background and foreground styles. The background styles include:
- None
- Histogram (based on sum volume)
- Histogram Delta +- (based on delta volume with coloured bars)
- Histogram Diagonal Delta +- (based on diagonal delta volume with 2 sided coloured bars)
- Histogram BS (buy / sell volume with 2 sided coloured bars)
- Full Background Single Colour (single colour background for visibility)
- Full Background Delta +- (background based on delta volume with +- colour).
The background positive and negative colours can be configured freely, their transparency can be configured numerically and shades can be used instead of single colours to indicate weight. If the background type is a histogram type, it can also be left or right aligned.
This configuration
therefore will display as below.
The Footprint text can take the form of:
- BxS (buy / sell volume with and x in between them)
- Sum (sum volume)
- Horizontal Delta
- Diagonal delta.
Note: the background and foreground information are decoupled and can give you a double view on the volume.The text colour can be chosen separately for positive and negative numbers and the text can be hidden. If the type allows, it can be right aligned too.
Note: The Footprint text size auto scales and as soon as the font size falls below 7, it is not displayed anymore.You can even choose the tickbox not to display texts.
Here is another example of configuration
This displays as below.
Crypto markets can deliver different fraction formats, therefore prices might not be usable for building a footprint. The plugin offers a rounding feature for crypto markets to circumvent this problem:
FAQ
Why can’t I see the Footprint when I pause in replay mode?
For performance reasons, Footprint draws only when a replay is playing.
I have questions related to Footprint, where can I address them?
We started a separate forum thread, feel free to ask any questions there https://bookmap.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=3582