Order flow trading course
A video course on reading a chart from what actually traded — volume, delta, the order book, the footprint — taught in NinjaTrader 8 with the tools we build.
Every lesson has the full transcript underneath it, so you can read it as well as watch it.
The lessons so far
5 of 64 published. A new lesson goes up every week.
Lesson 1
The trade pyramid: how traders actually progress
The four gears that produce a trading plan, the four stages of competence every trader climbs, and the Dow theory foundations the rest of the course is built on.
Lesson 2
Trend trading, and what you actually trade on MetaTrader
Seven reasons the trend comes first, the line between trading and investing, and what a MetaTrader chart really is — a CFD copied from the futures market, not the forex market.
Lesson 3
Where forex volume comes from, and what level 2 data shows
Why a broker's volume and sentiment figures describe nobody worth following, where the real volume behind a currency pair actually trades, and what level 2 data shows that a level 1 platform cannot.
Lesson 4
Market structure: how trends form, break and reverse
Why a trend is decided by closes and not by wicks, the open-close zones that make a pivot definite, and the volume behaviour that warns of a reversal before the setup forms.
Lesson 5
Trend analysis with volume: reading the slope on a real chart
Lesson 4's structure drawn on a live NinjaTrader daily chart, then tested with volume: why a movement needs a rising slope, a correction a falling one, and what it means when the two swap.
What this course is
Sixty-four lessons, released one a week, that build up in layers: trend structure first, then volume and delta, then the volume profile, then the order book and the footprint — and finally the combination of all of them into one way of trading.
It is taught by the person who built the indicators, using those indicators, on NinjaTrader 8. That is the difference from a general course on order flow: nothing is described in the abstract, because everything is being done on the chart in front of you.
- No account and no purchase is needed to watch any of it.
- Every lesson carries its full transcript, so the material is readable and searchable.
- The fundamental side is covered in its own branch, and the course recommends watching it first.
Who it is for
It assumes nothing about order flow and it does not assume you are new to trading. If you have taken courses before and found that a method works for a while and then stops working, the first lesson is about exactly that and is the one to start with.
If you want the written reference rather than the course, the twelve volume and order flow lessons cover the same ground as articles, and the twelve fundamental lessons cover what moves price in the first place.
The tools used in the course
Every chart in these lessons is drawn by the ICF indicators for NinjaTrader 8 — the volume profile, the footprint and the order flow tools.