medium · Order Flow Analysis footprint-delta
You observe a 'Small Print' at the session high, where only 3 contracts trade at the offer while 450 contracts trade one tick below.
What is the most likely diagnostic implication?
- Absorption: aggressive buyers and passive sellers are agreeing on a new fair value at the high
- Exhaustion: the last buyer has bought and there is no further institutional interest at higher prices.
- Breakout: the unusually low print volume suggests the market is thin and will easily spike much higher from here
- Capping: a large institutional seller is actively and persistently absorbing all incoming aggressive market buy orders
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