Practical, honest guides on reading order flow, footprint charts and depth of market with Sierra Chart, plus automated trading with MT5 expert advisors.
Looking for a ready-made setup instead of building one? The Sierra Chart footprint chart template and the other Sierra Chart chartbooks are configured layouts you install in a few minutes.
A candlestick shows four prices per bar. A footprint shows bid and ask volume at every price inside the bar. Compare what each displays and the extra data a footprint requires.
Blank or half-empty footprint cells? Match the symptom to its cause: tick data availability, intraday storage, Numbers Bars settings or reload behavior, then fix it in order.
Learn what the bid size, ask size and recent volume columns on the Sierra Chart Trade DOM measure, and why resting limit orders and executed contracts must be read separately.
Learn how imbalance ratio, minimum volume and row aggregation decide which Numbers Bars cells Sierra Chart highlights, and why the same footprint can look different at another row size.
A structured way to practice reading order flow charts: chart replay exercises on ES, NQ and CL, footprint observation drills and a trading journal that records what you saw.
What has to keep running for an MT5 expert advisor to trade, and the basic checks for connection, Algo Trading, inputs and restarts when you move your terminal to a VPS.
Learn how a developing value area tracks value area high, value area low and POC bar by bar, why it differs from a finished session profile, and how to display it in Sierra Chart.
New to the Sierra Chart Trade DOM? Learn what the main DOM columns show, how to read the market depth ladder, and how to arrange a clean DOM workspace you can scan quickly.
A practical walkthrough for saving a Sierra Chart study collection, applying it to new charts, and deciding when a study collection fits better than saving the whole chartbook.
Link the charts in a Sierra Chart chartbook so one symbol change updates every panel, then align days loaded and session times so each timeframe covers the same data.
Session profiles reset on a schedule; fixed range profiles cover only the bars you select. Learn why their POC and value area differ, and how to pick boundaries on purpose.
Bar delta measures buying vs selling pressure inside one bar. Cumulative delta adds it up over time. Learn how each is calculated and how session resets change what you see.