Tactiq: Order flow and market intelligence for traders

The chart

Every layer answers one question.

A candle tells you where price went. Tactiq shows who pushed it, where one side won, where size was waiting, and where dealers will have to hedge. Each layer is built from one mechanism and does one job.

01 Order flow

Who is aggressive, and is it working?

Footprint, delta and CVD.

Open any candle and see the buying and selling at every price. Delta shows which side was more aggressive in the bar. Cumulative delta shows whether that pressure is building or fading while price moves.

Footprint: Bid × ask at each price, with the point of control outlined.
Delta: Aggressive buying minus aggressive selling, per bar and per price.
Absorption: Strong delta with no progress in price: someone took the other side.

Every trade by its aggressor side · row size you set · built from closed candles

02 Flow imbalances

Where did one side win, level by level?

Order-flow imbalance zones.

Inside each footprint candle Tactiq compares buying at a price with selling one price lower. Three times or more is an imbalance. Three in a row is a stack, and the stack becomes a zone on your chart that runs right until a candle closes through it.

Flow buy: Buyers lifted offers at several prices in a row. Below price, a fresh zone is where they may defend again.
Flow sell: The same for sellers, above price.
Ladder: Many zones of one colour show which side drove the move. A close back through ends a zone.

3× diagonal imbalance · stacks of 3+ · 15m, 30m and 1h · alerts when a zone forms, is touched or breaks

03 Heavy zones

Where did size hit?

Size the market rarely sees.

Every second, Tactiq adds up aggressive buying and selling. A second in the top 0.1 % of the last 24 hours for that side is a burst. Bursts close together merge into one zone over the prices where they traded, and two minutes later Tactiq marks what price did.

Followed: Price moved on in the burst's direction.
Absorbed: Price came back through it. The aggression hit resting size and stalled.
How to use: The first return to a fresh zone is where the reaction is cleanest.

1-second buckets · rarity set per side and per market · judged 2 minutes forward

04 Gamma & OI

Where will dealers hedge?

Where dealers are long and short gamma.

From the whole options chain, Tactiq estimates dealer gamma at every strike: the call wall, the put wall and the flip where hedging changes sign. Above the flip, dealer hedging tends to damp moves. Below it, hedging can add to them. Open interest underneath shows whether positions are being opened or closed.

Walls: The strikes with the most gamma on each side, drawn on your price chart.
Flip: Zero gamma: the price where the hedging regime changes.
OI change: Rising OI with flat price means positions are building. That fuel matters.

Estimated from the public option chain, and labelled so · hourly history · BTC and ETH today, CME options next

05 Hedging profile

Will dealer hedging calm a move or feed it?

What dealers would trade for a 1 % move.

For every price, Tactiq estimates how many coins option dealers would buy or sell to stay hedged if price moved 1 % from there: gamma, plus how volatility and one day of time decay shift their hedge. Teal bars dampen a move: dealers trade against it. Magenta bars amplify it: dealers trade with it.

Teal: Hedging leans against the move. Moves there tend to be absorbed.
Magenta: Hedging adds to the move. A push there can run further.
How to use: A place to watch, not a signal. Bar length is a model of hedging, not an order on the book.

Estimated from the public option chain, and labelled so · gamma, vanna and one day of charm · BTC and ETH today, CME options next

06 Liquidity

Where is size resting, and does it stay?

Resting size, with its history.

See bids and asks waiting in the book out to 6 % either side of price, minute by minute. A wall that stays has held. A wall that vanishes as price approaches was pulled. A wall that price trades into and survives is absorbing.

Stayed: Size held while price tested it. Price can slow down here.
Pulled: The size left before price arrived. The gap can draw price through.
How to use: Read walls with flow. Resting orders are promises; trades are facts.

±6 % depth in 2 bp rows · recorded live, because exchanges publish no book history

07 Iceberg zones

Where did a resting order hide its size?

A bid that kept coming back.

Tactiq watches the best bid and ask with every trade. When the size shown at a price is eaten and shown again, time after time, or one fill takes far more than the book ever showed, more traded there than anyone could see. That price becomes a line on your chart, stronger the more it hid.

Refills: The shown size was eaten to almost nothing and came back at the same price within a second.
Hidden: What traded beyond the most ever shown, minus size that joined in plain sight. A lower bound: it cannot say how much is left.
How to use: A place to watch, not a signal. Whether these prices hold more often than others is not measured yet.

Best bid and ask with every trade · estimated · BTC spot and perpetual · alerts when one forms or breaks

08 Auction

Is price accepted or rejected?

Where the auction did business.

Volume profile shows the prices the market accepted and the ones it rejected. The point of control and the value-area high and low become levels on every chart, for the session, the day, the week and the composite.

POC: The price with the most business. Markets often return to it.
Value area: Where 70 % of volume traded. Outside it, price is being tested.
Acceptance: Closes outside value that hold say the auction moved. Fast returns say it was rejected.

Session, daily, weekly and composite profiles · naked POCs kept until touched

01

Alerts

Alerts that say why.

Choose the event, the market, the timeframe and the threshold. Tactiq watches every trade and sends a message that says what happened, where, and how unusual it was.

Heavy zone touchedFirst return to a fresh zone

15m · BTC

Stacked imbalance3 or more levels, either side

≥ 3× · 30m

Zero gamma crossedClose beyond the flip

1h close

Funding extremePercentile over 90 days

> 95th pct

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Tactiq Alertsbot · BTC, ETH, XAU

Market context

The calendar and the macro tape, beside the chart.

A CPI print changes what every level means. Tactiq keeps the economic calendar, the dollar, yields, equities and gold next to your chart, so the event is on your screen before it is on the tape.

Economic calendar · UTCNext high-impact in 02:14:09