Video tutorial
Orderbook tab video tutorial
Build one live order book from many exchanges and read it level by level. This walkthrough covers the Orderbook tab in about 1 minute 20 seconds.
In this video
- Choose the markets to merge (Futures) and remove a single market
- Pick a coin, review the markets and click Read (Not now skips saving a list)
- Group prices into levels with the grouping box
- Read asks above, bids below, and the middle row (best ask, best bid, buy and sell balance)
- See which exchanges stand at each price from the logos
- Click a price level to see its size by exchange
- Switch the size unit between dollars and the coin
- Reload a book from Saved lists
- Find the Orderbook Heatmap, which is a separate tab
Transcript
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One live order book, merged from many exchanges. Let's build it. Click Change to choose the markets to merge. Futures is selected. A book reads one market type at a time. Pick a coin, and review the markets. Each market has its own row. Remove any single market with the x. Click Read. When it offers to save a list, choose Not now.
Group prices into levels. Type a value in the grouping box. Asks in red sit above the middle row, bids in green below. The middle row shows the best ask, the best bid, and the buy and sell balance.
Exchange logos show who stands at each price. Click any price level to see its size by exchange.
Switch the size unit between dollars and the coin. Saved lists reload a book you built before. The heatmap button opens the Orderbook Heatmap, a separate tab. Free during Alpha.
More about Orderbook
- 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
- 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 save and load coin lists: In Tabmydata you save the markets of a tab as a named list, then load it again in one click from the Lists button of the Orderbook, Trades or Liquidat
- How to choose coins and exchanges in a tab: Pick a coin, review the markets behind it and apply your selection to a tab.
- How to pause a live tab or feed: Live tabs keep moving. To read without the list shifting, pause the tab. News has Hold for me, and Take a break stops every tab for 15 minutes.
To go deeper, see the Orderbook guide.