Big Trades

Big Trades

The Big Trades indicator allows traders to visualize large, aggressive market orders in real time. It highlights significant buy and sell activity directly on the chart, helping identify institutional participation and strong directional intent.

This indicator is especially useful for:
  • Detecting aggressive buyers and sellers

  • Identifying high-impact price levels

  • Understanding real-time order flow dynamics




How to Set Up Big Trades

Follow these steps to add the indicator to your chart:
  1. Click the Indicators icon on the chart toolbar
  2. Find Big Trades in the list and click + to add it
  3. Click the settings icon on the indicator to open its configuration window


Data Settings

Days to Load

Defines how many historical days of large trade data are loaded on the chart.

Input Type

Specifies which type of order flow data the indicator uses.

For more details, refer to:
Different Types of Input Data for Indicators

Filter Mode

Defines how large trades are filtered:

  • Manual
    Allows you to manually filter large trades using Min & Max values.

  • Automatic
    Uses the Big Trades Analysis algorithm to automatically determine optimal thresholds.
    (Explained in section 1.4 Big Trades Analysis)

Manual Filter (Min & Max)

Sets the minimum and maximum trade size displayed on the chart.

Example:
If Min = 30, only trades with 30 contracts or more will be plotted.

This helps reduce noise and focus only on meaningful, high-volume trades.


Plot Settings

Customize how Big Trades appear on the chart.

General

  • Marker Type: Choose between Circle, Square, Diamond, or Text

  • Hollow Fill: Displays marker outlines without fill color

Size

  • Standard Deviation: Controls marker scaling between minimum and maximum sizes
    (Recommended to keep default)

  • Minimum Size: Smallest marker size

  • Maximum Size: Largest marker size

Color

  • Minimum Opacity: Lowest opacity value for markers

  • Maximum Opacity: Highest opacity value for markers

  • Ask Color: Color for aggressive buyers

  • Bid Color: Color for aggressive sellers

Text Settings

(Only applicable when Marker Type is set to Text)

  • Plot Only Inside Bar: Restricts text to candle body

  • Text Size: Font size of the text

  • Text Color: Font color




Zones Settings

When enabled, the indicator plots horizontal zones based on large trades.

General

  • Biggest Only
    Plots zones only for the largest trades.

Shadow Mode (Candle Wick)

Controls how zones are plotted for trades occurring in candle wicks:

  • All: Plot zones for all wick trades

  • Reverse Only:

    • Bearish candle → Aggressive buyers

    • Bullish candle → Aggressive sellers

  • Trend Only:

    • Bearish candle → Aggressive sellers

    • Bullish candle → Aggressive buyers

  • None: No zones plotted for wick trades

Body Mode (Candle Body)

Controls how zones are plotted for trades occurring in candle bodies:

  • All: Plot zones for all body trades

  • Reverse Only:

    • Bearish candle → Aggressive buyers

    • Bullish candle → Aggressive sellers

  • Trend Only:

    • Bearish candle → Aggressive sellers

    • Bullish candle → Aggressive buyers

  • None: No zones plotted for body trades

Color

  • Bid Color: Zone color for aggressive sellers

  • Ask Color: Zone color for aggressive buyers

  • Opacity: Transparency level of zones

Extension

  • Number of Bars: Defines how long the zone extends horizontally




Alert Settings

Enable Alert Sound

Turns on audio alerts when a large trade meeting your filter criteria is detected on the chart.

Bid Alert

Select the alert sound to play when a significant Bid side trade is detected - an aggressive seller hitting the market.

Ask Alert

Select the alert sound to play when a significant Ask side trade is detected - an aggressive buyer hitting the market.


Big Trades Analysis

Big Trades Analysis is a DeepCharts algorithm that dynamically calculates optimal large-trade thresholds based on price behavior and volatility of the selected symbol.

Key Notes

  • Analysis only needs to be run once per week or month

  • Results are saved automatically

  • No need to rerun the analysis every time you open the platform


How to Use Big Trades Analysis

  1. Apply the Big Trades indicator to your chart

  2. Open Indicator Settings

  3. Set Filter Mode to Automatic

  4. Select Intensity Level:

    • Low

    • Medium

    • Strong

(These act similarly to Min & Max filters but are calculated automatically by the platform)

  1. Save the settings




Run the Analysis


  1. Go to Options → Tools → Big Trades Analysis

  2. Run the analysis

  3. Reload or restart the chart if results do not appear immediately

Once completed, the indicator will automatically apply optimized thresholds to your charts.


Still Having Trouble?

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  • A screenshot of the issue
  • A brief description of what you were trying to do

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