01What is a footprint chart?
A footprint chart replaces each candle with the volume that traded at every price inside it, split by which side crossed the spread. Sells that hit the bid print on the left of each level, buys that lifted the ask on the right. It answers the question a candle cannot: not where price went, but who had to pay to move it.
02How do I read order flow as a beginner?
Start with one thing: the disagreement between delta and price. Find bars with heavy one-sided delta and almost no range, and watch what happens next. That is absorption, and it is the pattern that teaches the rest. Add imbalance stacks once you trust that, and leave the DOM until last — it moves too fast to learn on.
03What is bid-ask imbalance?
It is a comparison between the ask volume at one price and the bid volume one tick below, which are the two sides of the same quote. When one is three or more times the other the level is marked. Three consecutive marked levels is a stacked imbalance, which is the version worth acting on — a single one is usually noise.
04Is Klustra really free?
Yes, and there is nothing to upgrade to. Every tool listed on this page is available to everyone with no account. It is funded by exchange affiliate links, a single sponsor slot in the right-hand rail, and donations. There is no trial, no card, and no feature that stops working later.
05Do I need an account?
There is no account to make. No sign-in form exists anywhere in the product and no user record exists on any server. Your workspaces, drawings and settings save into your own browser's storage, which means they are private and also that clearing site data clears them — export a workspace file if you want a backup.
06Do I need to download anything?
No. Klustra is a web page. It runs in Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge on desktop, and works on tablets. There is no installer, no extension and no desktop build, so nothing to keep updated and nothing that can be blocked by a corporate machine policy.
07Which exchanges are supported?
Binance, Bybit, OKX, Bitget, Gate.io and Hyperliquid, spot and perpetuals. Hyperliquid also carries perpetuals on gold, oil and index products, which is how order flow on those instruments is available without a CFD data subscription. Multiple exchanges can be merged into one aggregated footprint and CVD.
08What is the difference between a footprint chart and a volume profile?
A footprint shows volume at price within each individual bar, so it is about sequence — what happened, in what order, at what price. A volume profile aggregates volume at price across a whole session or range, so it is about structure: where the market has agreed and where it has not. Most traders use both, on the same chart.
09How much history do I get?
Years of candles for zoomed-out context, loaded from pre-aggregated files on a CDN, and real per-price footprint over the archive window plus everything your browser has streamed this session. The chart is explicit about which is which — a candle is never dressed up as a footprint bar it does not have the data for.
10Can I set alerts?
Yes. Price-cross alerts are checked on our server every minute and delivered by Telegram or email even with the browser closed. Order-flow conditions — delta thresholds, big trades, imbalance stacks — run in your browser, because they need the full tick stream, which by design only your machine has.
11Does it work on mobile?
The chart reads well on a phone and is fully usable on a tablet, but order flow is a dense display and a small screen shows a lot less of it. The heavier 3D and multi-chart layouts scale themselves down on small or low-power devices so the page stays fast.