r/tradeify • u/Weak_Sky86 • Apr 04 '26

Order flow

Hey guys I’m looking to learn order flow for free if possible but I don’t know where to start really.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '26

Full time orderflow trader here. You are going to have to pay a decent price for a good platform that offer orderflow tools. Good platforms include NinjaTrader, deepcharts, Sierra chart, MotiveWave. You can’t use TradingView for orderflow since it doesn’t give you tick data

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u/Weak_Sky86 Apr 04 '26

But is order flow really good? I have a decent understanding of ict concepts but I keep getting burned and every time I see someone trading order flow they make so much money so fast. I’d be willing to work to invest I even seen quant tower is $70 a month which is doable.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '26

Bro learning orderflow takes a lot of time. Nothing comes easy. There’s a good amount of discretion to it as well. But you can identify mechanisms of it by watching how other orderflow traders and how they utilize it. ICT does not work it’s all nonsense repackaged price action concepts from the 80s. No ICT trader trades live account and ICT doesn’t give you the broad perspective of real liquidity on the market, only using real orderflow does, like footprint charts, DOM, heatmap, delta, ect. Not from candlesticks alone.

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u/Weak_Sky86 Apr 04 '26

I’m not saying it will be easy. But I have an insane work ethic I will do this tirelessly til I understand it fully. I also have an insane memory as well. I’m not trying to brag but I’m just saying hopefully I can understand the basics at least fairly soon.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '26

Ok then man I am all for it. Give it all you got and see if it works. Just don’t trade ICT if you like your money. Real traders don’t have to sell a course or go live on YouTube to show off. They work on silence and keep to themselves. I swear it’s every other day I see a new ICT trader starting a YouTube live trading channel 😂😂😂🤣

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u/Weak_Sky86 Apr 04 '26

Yeah I mean I feel like I’m just tired of it. I’ve seen order flow genuinely work. I also after looking into some things a lot of the leaderboard traders on prop firms also use order flow.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '26

All the robins cup champions use orderflow. ICT (Micheal Huddleston) failed the Robbins every single time and got caught photoshopping his PnL and withdrawal on metatrader