
How to read it
Each row of the profile is one price level of the live order book, and the length of its bar is the size resting there right now.- Below the current price the rows are bids — limit orders waiting to buy. Above it they are asks, waiting to sell.
- A long bar is a large resting order: a level the market has to absorb before price moves through it.
- A gap or a run of short bars is thin book, where price can travel quickly.
- The profile shows what is resting, not what has traded. For traded volume at each price, use Volume Footprint.
Settings
Click the gear on the on-chart Order Book control and the Order Book Profile panel opens.Esc closes it, and Reset to Default at the bottom returns every row to its default.


Related
- Liquidity Heatmap — the other order-book overlay, drawn behind price as recorded history rather than the live book.
- Chart Types — the type the overlay is drawn on top of.