Orderflow Suite [martineye15]

Orderflow Suite — four order-flow tools in one indicator: Cumulative Volume Delta, footprint bars, imbalance / absorption signals, and a volume profile. Each module toggles independently, so you can run the full suite or just the part you need. CVD gets its own pane; the footprint, signals and profile draw directly on the price chart, so no second script is required.

MODULES
- Cumulative Volume Delta (CVD): running buy-minus-sell volume, with Session / Day / Week / None reset anchoring and a Line, Columns or Candle display (candles show open = previous CVD, close = new CVD, wicks from the intrabar delta extremes). Optional price-CVD divergence: bearish when price makes a higher high while CVD makes a lower high, bullish when price makes a lower low while CVD makes a higher low.
- Footprint bars: the most recent bars are split into price bins, each showing aggregated buy x sell volume, shaded by its net delta, with the bar's highest-volume bin (VPOC) framed.
- Imbalance & absorption: delta-imbalance triangles when |delta| / volume passes a threshold, stacked-imbalance zones when several same-direction imbalance bars line up, plus absorption labels (heavy volume in a tight range near a swing) and exhaustion labels (a new swing high on negative delta, or a new swing low on positive delta).
- Volume profile: a volume-at-price histogram over a lookback window with POC, value-area high / low and the 70% value area, in total-volume or delta-coloured mode.

DELTA ENGINE (please read)
TradingView does not provide a true bid/ask tick feed, so delta here is an approximation, not exchange order flow. Historical delta is estimated from lower-timeframe intrabars: an intrabar counts as buy volume when it closes above its open, sell volume when below, and is split evenly on an unchanged close. On the live bar you can optionally accumulate tick-based delta instead (uptick = buy, downtick = sell). Because TradingView does not store ticks, realtime values built this way can differ from what the same bar shows after a chart refresh. Treat every delta value as an estimate.

ALERTS
Ten conditions: CVD bullish / bearish divergence, bullish / bearish imbalance, stacked bullish / bearish imbalance, absorption at highs / lows, and exhaustion top / bottom.

HOW TO USE
Add it to a symbol that has volume (crypto, futures or stocks — spot forex usually has no real volume, and the tool will tell you so). Intraday timeframes from about 1 minute to 1 hour work best. Turn on the modules you want, set the delta engine (lower-timeframe auto / manual, and optional realtime tick mode), and adjust the per-module thresholds and sizes. Use CVD and its divergences for momentum and non-confirmation, the footprint and profile to see where volume actually traded, and the imbalance / absorption / exhaustion signals as context around swings. Set alerts on any of the ten conditions.

WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT
It combines CVD, footprint, imbalance / absorption and a volume profile in a single indicator, sharing one delta engine and drawing the price-chart modules through force_overlay from a lower pane — a combined order-flow view without stacking several scripts. Drawing counts are budgeted internally so the modules together stay within TradingView's object limits.

REPAINTING & LIMITATIONS
Confirmed-bar behaviour is stable: footprints are built on closed bars, CVD divergences use confirmed pivots (so they appear a few bars after the pivot — normal pivot lag, not repainting), and the profile is computed over completed bars. The delta approximation is the main caveat: the live bar's delta is an estimate, and if you enable realtime tick mode, the live values will not match the same bar's historical lower-timeframe values after a refresh — this is inherent to how TradingView exposes data and is noted in the input tooltips. One-second intrabars need a plan with seconds data; without it the tool uses a one-minute fallback, and very old bars beyond the intrabar budget fall back to whole-bar classification. A symbol with no volume cannot produce delta and will show a notice instead.

This is a visual, decision-support tool. It is not a strategy, it places no orders and reports no performance statistics, and it is not financial advice.