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Order flow, futures and risk — from the desk.
Articles on footprint reading, volume profile, futures contracts, options gamma and risk, written to hold up over time. No fluff, no profit promises — trader to trader.
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How to connect a Rithmic account to EliteXCharts
Step by step: connect the Rithmic account from your prop firm or broker to EliteXCharts, save the password safely, add more logins and fix common login errors.
Tick value: how to calculate P&L in futures
How tick value works in futures: tick size, multiplier, the P&L formula, examples for NQ, ES, CL and their micros, and the conversions that trip people up.
Volume profile explained for futures traders
Volume profile shows how much traded at each price. How to read nodes, POC and value area in futures, which session to profile, and where the profile misleads.
Footprint chart explained: reading bid × ask
How to read a footprint chart: what the bid and ask numbers mean, where delta, POC and diagonal imbalances come from, and which part of a candle to read first.
NQ futures explained: tick size, point value, multiplier
NQ futures in plain numbers: tick size, point value and the multiplier behind them, how expiration and the roll work, and when MNQ is the better contract.
What is order flow trading in futures?
Order flow trading reads who is hitting the bid and lifting the offer behind each candle. How the tape, DOM and footprint work, and where the reading fails.
Call wall and put wall: reading dealer hedging on ES
How the call wall and put wall form on the SPY and SPX 0DTE chains, why dealer hedging makes them act differently on ES, and what happens when price breaks one.
Gamma flip: why NQ trades differently on each side
The gamma flip is where modeled dealer gamma changes sign. Above it, hedging tends to absorb NQ's moves; below it, to extend them. Reading it, with limits.
Why we built EliteXCharts, a native order flow platform
Why we built EliteXCharts: one native app for footprint reading, chart trading on Rithmic, a risk manager that blocks orders, replay and an automatic journal.