Nexural Flow Pro

NEXURAL FLOW PRO

Pure Order Flow Visualization for TradingView


WHAT THIS INDICATOR ACTUALLY IS

Nexural Flow Pro is a buy and sell volume separation tool that visualizes the ongoing battle between buyers and sellers on every bar. It uses TradingViews most accurate native function for approximating order flow by pulling tick direction data from lower timeframes and aggregating it into clean visual columns.

This indicator shows you who is in control right now. Not who was in control yesterday. Not what some lagging moving average thinks. It answers the most fundamental question in trading which is are buyers or sellers more aggressive at this moment.

The core premise is simple. When buyers are hitting the ask aggressively the price tends to go up. When sellers are hitting the bid aggressively the price tends to go down. This indicator attempts to measure that aggression using the best data TradingView provides.


WHAT THIS INDICATOR IS NOT

I need to be completely transparent with you because I believe education matters more than anything else

This is not true order flow. Real order flow requires access to the raw tape which shows every single trade as it happens along with whether it hit the bid or ask. It requires Level 2 depth of market data showing resting limit orders. It requires footprint charts that break down volume at each price level within a candle.

TradingView does not provide any of this data.

What TradingView does provide is tick direction data from lower timeframes which can be aggregated to approximate buy versus sell volume. This approximation is useful but it is not the same as reading the actual tape.

If you are a professional scalper or a futures day trader who needs precision order flow you should be using Sierra Chart or a similar platform with real market depth access. I use Sierra Chart myself for serious order flow work. This indicator exists for traders who either cannot access those platforms or who want supplementary confluence on TradingView.


HOW THE DATA WORKS

The indicator uses a Pine Script function called requestUpAndDownVolume which pulls volume data from a lower timeframe and categorizes it based on tick direction. When price ticks up on that lower timeframe the volume is counted as buying. When price ticks down the volume is counted as selling.

You have four timeframe modes to choose from.

Auto mode selects a sensible lower timeframe based on your current chart. On intraday charts it pulls from the one minute. On daily charts it pulls from the five minute.

Aggressive mode uses the smallest possible timeframe for maximum granularity. On intraday charts this means one second data when available.

Conservative mode uses slightly larger lower timeframes which can reduce noise but also reduces precision.

Custom mode lets you specify exactly which timeframe to pull data from.

When real tick data is not available such as on some symbols or during certain conditions the indicator falls back to a synthetic calculation based on where price closed within the candle range. This fallback is clearly labeled in the info panel so you always know what type of data you are seeing.


THE VISUAL SYSTEM

You have two display modes.

Stacked mode shows buy volume sitting on top of sell volume in a single column. This makes it easy to see total volume at a glance while still understanding the composition. The dividing line between green and red tells you instantly who dominated that bar.

Side by Side mode shows buy volume as an upward histogram and sell volume as a downward histogram. This creates a cleaner separation and makes it easier to compare the raw sizes of each.

Column colors shift based on context. High volume bars get more saturated colors. Low volume bars fade toward gray because they carry less significance. Strong imbalances get even more vivid coloring to draw your attention.

The imbalance glow feature adds a white border around columns where the buy to sell ratio exceeds three to one or vice versa. These moments represent potential exhaustion or continuation signals depending on context.


THE INFO PANEL

The panel in the corner gives you a real time dashboard of the current bar.

Bias tells you whether buyers or sellers are dominant and whether that dominance is mild or strong.

Delta shows the net difference between buy and sell volume. Positive delta means more buying. Negative delta means more selling.

Imbalance displays the ratio between the dominant and passive side. A three to one ratio means the dominant side has three times the volume of the other.

Buy and Sell rows show the actual volume numbers along with their percentage of total volume.

Volume Status tells you whether current volume is high normal or low compared to the fifty bar average. This matters because a strong imbalance on low volume means much less than the same imbalance on high volume.

Session Delta tracks the cumulative delta for the entire trading day. This helps you understand the overall flow bias since the session opened.

The data type indicator in the header shows REAL when you have actual tick data and SYNTH when the indicator is using the fallback calculation.


HOW TO ACTUALLY USE THIS

Here is my honest guidance on extracting value from this tool.

Use it for confluence not as a primary signal. If you see a support level on your chart and Flow Pro shows aggressive buying with a strong imbalance that is meaningful confluence. If you are about to short a resistance level and Flow Pro shows zero selling interest you might reconsider.

Pay attention to volume context. A ninety percent buy bar means nothing if total volume is a fraction of average. Always check the volume status before getting excited about an imbalance.

Watch for divergences between price and delta. If price is making new highs but delta is getting weaker that suggests buying pressure is fading. The opposite is also true. Price making new lows with weakening negative delta can signal seller exhaustion.

Use session delta for intraday bias. If session delta is deeply positive all day and you are looking to short you are fighting the flow. That does not mean you cannot short but you should demand a better setup.

The imbalance glow is a flag not a signal. When you see that white border it means something notable is happening. Whether that something leads to continuation or reversal depends on the context around it. Learn to read what happens after these moments.

Do not use this on low liquidity symbols. The tick direction approximation works best on liquid markets like ES SPY QQQ NQ and major forex pairs. On illiquid small caps the data becomes much less reliable.


STRENGTHS OF THIS APPROACH

This uses the absolute best data source TradingView offers for order flow approximation. There is no secret function or hidden data that would make this more accurate on this platform.

The visualization is clean and immediately readable. You do not need to interpret complex footprints or read raw tape. The information is distilled into an intuitive format.

Session tracking gives you cumulative context that single bar analysis cannot provide.

The honest data labeling tells you exactly what you are looking at. No pretending synthetic data is real.

It works on any symbol and any timeframe with appropriate data source adjustment.


LIMITATIONS YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND

The tick direction method is an approximation. A large institutional order might execute across multiple price levels and get miscategorized. The indicator cannot know the true intent behind the volume.

There is no price level breakdown. Real footprint charts show you exactly how much volume traded at each price within a bar. This indicator aggregates everything into a single bar level summary.

You cannot see resting orders. The depth of market showing limit orders waiting to be filled is invisible on TradingView. You only see what already traded not what is waiting to trade.

Absorption detection is heuristic based. The indicator can flag high volume bars with small price movement but it cannot confirm whether that volume was actually absorbed by passive limit orders or simply mixed aggressive flow.

The one second data has gaps. Not all symbols support one second resolution and even when they do the data can be incomplete during fast markets.


WHO THIS IS FOR

Swing traders who want to add volume flow context to their technical analysis without switching platforms.

TradingView users who cannot access or afford professional order flow software but want something better than basic volume bars.

Traders learning about order flow concepts who want a visual introduction before moving to more complex tools.

Anyone who uses TradingView as their primary platform and wants the best possible volume analysis within that ecosystem.


WHO THIS IS NOT FOR

Professional scalpers who need millisecond precision and true tape reading. You need Sierra Chart Bookmap or a similar platform.

Traders who expect this to generate automatic buy and sell signals. This is an analysis tool not a signal generator.

Anyone trading illiquid instruments where volume data is sparse or unreliable.


FINAL THOUGHTS

I built this indicator because I wanted the best possible order flow visualization within TradingViews constraints. That meant being honest about what those constraints are rather than pretending they do not exist.

Order flow analysis is genuinely valuable. Understanding whether buyers or sellers are in control gives you an edge that pure price action analysis does not provide. But the quality of that understanding depends entirely on the quality of the underlying data.

On TradingView this indicator represents the ceiling of what is possible. It is not perfect but it is honest and it is useful when applied correctly with realistic expectations.

If this helps you make better trading decisions even occasionally it has done its job.

Trade well.


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