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Big Trades
Learn to spot the large orders right on your chart with Big Trades in EliteXCharts, in under 2 minutes.
Chapters
Step by step
- Open Indicators on the chart header, find Big Trades in the catalog and click Add
- Read the bubbles: lime for buyers, violet for sellers; the bigger the bubble, the bigger the order
- Understand the sweep: same-side trades a few milliseconds apart add up into a single order
- Set the minimum volume for each asset: 75 contracts by default for NQ, raise it for giants, lower to 20
- Pick the colors, circle or square, the bubble sizes, candle painting and a sound alert
- Watch a real NQ session: big sellers drive price down over 400 points, then a 460-contract buyer steps in
What the narrator says
0:08Welcome to EliteXCharts. In this video: Big Trades, the large orders, marked right on your chart.
0:15To turn it on, open Indicators on the chart header, find Big Trades in the catalog, and click Add. The bubbles show up across the whole chart.
0:25Each bubble is a large aggressive order. Lime means buyers hit the offer; violet, sellers hit the bid. The bigger the bubble, the bigger the order, and the number inside is the contracts traded.
Read the full transcript
0:38It works like a sweep: trades on the same side, a few milliseconds apart, add up into a single order, even across several prices. So one large order shows up as one bubble.
0:49The minimum volume decides what counts as big. The default is 75 contracts, made for NQ. Each chart keeps its own filter, so set it for each asset: raise it to see only the giants, or lower it on quieter markets, down to 20.
1:05In the same settings: the buy and sell colors, circle or square, the bubble sizes, painting the whole candle, and a sound alert whenever a new big trade prints.
1:15Here's a real NQ session. Waves of big sellers hit the market, and price drops more than 400 points in under an hour. At the low, a 717-contract sell. Minutes later, a 460-contract buyer steps in, the low holds, and price bounces 140 points.
1:35That's Big Trades: the large orders, right where they happened.
