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Reading Order Book Behavior Visualization

A live picture of the book that marks every fake wall, cancelled order and pulled level, with a running count of traps and a short book insight.

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1

The header row

The top of the card shows the largest ask wall, the live mid price in USDT with its change and a short sparkline, and the largest bid wall. These three numbers tell you where the biggest visible walls sit relative to price.

Largest ask wall, live mid price and largest bid wall, with the LIVE badge.
2

The mirrored depth panels

The bid and ask sides are drawn as two mirrored panels around the mid price, with the price ladder in the middle. Shaded boxes mark the price bands with recorded events, and a highlighted band names the fake zone with its exact price range.

Markers show what happened: orange fake-wall markers, crosses for cancelled large orders, arrows for pulled liquidity, rings for pulsed liquidity zones and a red trail for depth decay, plus the current price. Under each panel, a line tells you whether bids were consumed by sell flow or asks by buy flow, and how much was pulsed or pulled.

The mirrored bid and ask panels with fake walls, pulled and pulsed liquidity, depth decay and the fake zone.
3

Liquidity traps

The Liquidity traps panel keeps a running count: how many of the resting walls seen were fake, for example 140 of 260, how much quote volume was withdrawn across separate pulls, and how much volume actually traded against resting orders.

A high share of fake walls together with large pulled volume means much of the visible book is not there to be traded.

4

Book insight

Book insight summarises the shape of the book: book imbalance, the share of resting size leaning to the bid or the ask; band dwell, how long price bands held their resting size; and wall decay, how much of its peak size the middle wall has lost.

Liquidity traps and Book insight: fake walls, pulled liquidity, executed volume, book imbalance, band dwell and wall decay.
5

The glossary

The bottom of the card defines fake wall, pulled liquidity, absorbed volume and depth decay, so you never have to guess what a marker means.

The built-in glossary: fake wall, pulled liquidity, absorbed volume and depth decay.
Imbalance can be stagedA strong bid imbalance looks bullish, but if the walls behind it are marked fake or keep decaying, that support may disappear exactly when it is needed.