Check this guy out on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/c/orderflows/videos You don't have to buy his software in order to use the principles he shows on the videos. He is a pretty good teacher and does offer a course if his ideas resonate with you. I personally have used several footprint chart packages and I am currently using Gomi and there are two reasons for my choosing this software. 1) Most packages place the delta info at the bottom of the chart. Gomi attaches the delta info over and under the bar so you can track it without glancing down. It's very helpful. 2) All the bar data is exposed so you can write indicator code on the orderflow data. He even has an up/down indicator you can use the code in easily. An example is say you want an up arrow when buys exceed sells by a factor of 2; easy.
Read this intro before you decide to go deep into the analysis of order flow https://optimusfutures.com/tradeblog/archives/order-flow-fundamentals
thanks, I especially like how the guy looks like a criminal who's on parole. hooray to the first real answer to this post
If you expect everything to be just handed over to you when you ask for it, you won't get far in trading.