Video tutorial
Gold Liquidity Heatmap tab video tutorial
Gold (XAU) contracts trade on crypto exchanges too. The Orderbook Heatmap records their futures order books, with stored history. This walkthrough reads gold the way you read BTC, in about 1.5 minutes.
In this video
- Open an Orderbook Heatmap tab with the plus button
- Choose Pro and change the asset with the pencil
- Find the Commodities group under Futures and pick XAU
- Set Sensitivity to Low
- Read the bands: brighter means more orders; hover for values
- Scroll back through the stored history
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Gold futures trade on crypto exchanges too. The Orderbook Heatmap records their order books, with stored history. Let's read gold, XAU.
Open a new tab with the plus button, then choose Orderbook Heatmap. Scroll the mouse wheel on the canvas to bring the tab closer.
It is better to choose Pro, because it gives you a more personal selection. Press the pencil to change the asset. Choose Futures. Commodities have their own group. Search XAU. Pick it, and confirm.
Open the settings and pick Low. It sets a floor and a ceiling that fit this asset. It takes a moment to load, because several exchanges are connected and the stored dataset is big.
It reads just like a crypto chart. Brighter bands are where more orders sit. Hover to read the values. These come from futures markets.
Scroll back to see the stored history. The recorded order books stay stored. This is tokenized gold, as traded on crypto exchanges, not spot gold. Here it is only a demo of the tool. It shows order books. It is not advice. Free during Alpha.
More about Gold Liquidity Heatmap
- How to read the Orderbook Profile: Read resting size by price level as bars beside the chart, live or summed over a window you choose.
- How to read a crypto order book in the Orderbook tab: To read a crypto order book in Tabmydata, open the Orderbook tab and pick a coin. It merges the live bids and asks of the futures markets you choose i
- How to read a liquidity heatmap in the Orderbook Heatmap tab: A liquidity heatmap of the order book shows where resting depth sat over time, drawn on top of the candles. It draws resting order-book depth by price
To go deeper, see the Gold Liquidity Heatmap guide.