Video tutorial
Orderbook Heatmap tab video tutorial
See where resting orders sat on a BTC/USDT Futures chart, and how big they were. This walkthrough sets up the Orderbook Heatmap tab from scratch in under 2.5 minutes.
In this video
- Open the Orderbook Heatmap tab from the + menu
- Pick Futures and BTC/USDT on Binance
- Tick the exchanges that feed the heatmap. Tabmydata connects to 24+ exchanges.
- Set 15-minute candles and the weekly Orderbook Profile
- Tune sensitivity, Floor and Ceiling to set the color range
- Read values with the tooltip, zoom time and price, and scroll back
- Show or hide layers, and read a band exchange by exchange
Transcript
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See where real orders sit. Let's set it up together. It's easy! Open a new tab with the plus button, Then choose Orderbook Heatmap, under Orderbook and flow.
Start by switching the tab from Lite to Pro. Choose Futures, Then pick BTC/USDT on Binance.
Open the Heatmap settings, and tick each exchange. Nice and simple! Choose 15-minute candles.
Turn the Profile on, weekly. Give it a few seconds to load. Sensitivity decides how much depth shows.
Floor, 600. Ceiling, 700. Small orders drop out. Much cleaner!
Turn on the tooltip, to read values under your cursor. Zoom time with the wheel, zoom price on the right edge, and scroll back.
Use the layers legend to hide or show the Heatmap, and the Profile, and open each layer's settings.
Hover the bands. Click one to see its size, exchange by exchange.
Place a Long at the last candle, on the strong green band. That's it, you're all set! Free during Alpha, on tabmydata.com.
More about Orderbook 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 liquidation heatmap: Add the Liquidation Heatmap layer to a chart and read the modeled levels against price.
- How to add liquidations to a chart: Open a coin in the Chart tab to see liquidations on price, and add indicators such as EMA and Bollinger Bands. You can stack up to 8 layers on one cha
To go deeper, see the Orderbook Heatmap guide.