What can you see here? Well, buyers appear to be in control, they hit some resistance in a couple of spots, and that's about all we can say. What about now? BookMaps, heatmaps shows the size and positioning of limit orders over time. We can now start to understand why the market encountered resistance at these levels. But let's go one step further and filter this data to only show large market participants. We can now see there was a large single player here, and another larger one here. We can also see a 200-contract bid here, dipping in and out of the order book. Chances are this is the same player adding and pulling, potentially spoofing or at least gauging market reaction. There's some more interesting behaviour here, a stack of 100-lot bids, probably from the same market participant, as bids are equal in size, evenly spaced, and were added exactly 10 seconds apart. Most retail traders only look at candlesticks and aggressive volume. But why limit yourself? Study the order flow behind market movements, and back-test scenarios like these to find trading opportunities with real edge. Hit subscribe and attend one of our free live webinars to learn more about reading real-time order flow.