Aggressive Buyer
Order Flow Analysis glossary · Absorption, Exhaustion & Imbalances
Definition
A participant who pays the offer price to acquire a position immediately, lifting a passive seller's resting offer by submitting a market order or marketable limit order. Aggressive buys populate the ask volume column of the footprint at the executed price. The footprint signature of aggressive buying is large ask-volume numbers at successively higher prices.
Aggressive Buyer in plain English
An aggressive buyer is the impatient one who refuses to wait — instead of posting a price and hoping, they reach across and pay whatever sellers are currently asking, just to own it right now. By snapping up those resting sell orders, they get filled instantly, and this shows up in footprint charts as big numbers in the "ask" (sell-side) column at each price. When you see those big buy numbers climbing at higher and higher prices, that's aggressive buyers powering the market up. It's the shopper who grabs the item off the shelf at full sticker price rather than haggling or waiting for a sale.
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