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👣 Footprint
Volume at price inside each bar, split by aggressive buyers and sellers.
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A footprint chart opens up each candle and shows the volume that traded at every price inside it — usually split into volume that hit the bid and volume that lifted the offer. It's how you see where inside a bar the business happened and who was aggressive.
Key Insight
A footprint shows executed aggression, not intent. It tells you who crossed the spread — not who was right, and not who was trading biggest.
Questions this module helps you answer
- What do the numbers in a footprint cell actually mean?
- How are trades classified as buying or selling?
- What's the difference between initiative and passive activity?
- What are the common misreads — and the limits of the data?