Building a Minimal Order Flow Workspace

My ideal order flow workspace would answer three questions.

First: Where is price in the broader market structure?

Second: What is happening with executed buying and selling?

Third: How is price interacting with available liquidity?

A simple workspace might include:

• A conventional chart for structure and key levels.

• A footprint chart for bid/ask volume.

• A DOM or heatmap for examining displayed liquidity.

You don't necessarily need all three. The right setup depends on the strategy.

I would remove any tool that doesn't contribute useful information to the decision-making process.

The purpose of a trading workspace is to make important information easier to interpret, not to fill every inch of the screen.