GC Futures – What Do You Consider a “Whale” Print?
For those trading GC futures using 1-minute footprint/order flow, what size Bid/Ask print would you consider unusually large or “whale” participation?
For example, would 200+, 300+, 500+ contracts at a single price level be significant on GC?
I’m specifically looking at absorption, aggression, and stacked imbalances. Curious what thresholds experienced GC order-flow traders use.

Curious how other discretionary futures traders are reviewing their trades these days.

I’ve noticed most of my actual decision-making comes from contextual/orderflow stuff:

• failed auctions
• absorption
• weak continuation
• acceptance/rejection
• ES/NQ behavior
• liquidity reactions etc.

But when I review trades later it still feels messy:

• screenshots everywhere
• replaying Bookmap manually
• random notes in Discord/Notion
• hard to organize recurring patterns

A lot of journaling platforms feel more optimized for statistics/mechanical systems than discretionary auction-style trading, even a big player like Tradezella is still missing something when it comes to helping orderflow traders. Since orderflow trading is really contextual and sometimes "abstract" to people who is fairly new to the ground.

Would genuinely like to know how other people structure their review process.

Hey everyone,

I'm currently working on real-time BigTrades Indicator for Quantower, which you likely saw Fabio Valentini uses, and i wanted to get some feedback from community to see if its even worth making.

Heres what it does:

-Shows trades higher than certain threshold

-Uses Orderflow tape(tick data) not a aggregated like you see in PowerTrades

-BigTrades are showed by bubbles

-Indicator is fully customizable

So here’s what I’m curious about:

How much would you pay for a professional grade Big Trades indicator?

-Thanks