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📘 Order Book

In ProfitForge, the order book is one of the core tools for analyzing market liquidity, scalping, and active position management.

⚙️ Real-Time Updates​

Order book data is updated every 100 milliseconds, providing ultra-fast precision.
This allows traders to instantly react to changes and track the appearance of large resting orders (liquidity walls).

📶 Ping and Latency​

At the top of the order book interface, two types of ping metrics are shown:

  • Left ping (🔼 130 ms) — one-way ping, showing how fast the signal travels from your terminal to the exchange.
    In this case, the order reaches the exchange just 130 ms after clicking in the book.

  • Right ping (🔼🔽 253 ms) — round-trip ping, representing the time for a full request–response cycle.
    Typically, it’s about twice the one-way time, but during high volatility, it may deviate.
    One-way reflects delay to the order engine, while round-trip shows the quality of the overall connection.

💡 Tip: Low latency is critical for scalping, high-frequency trading, and any strategy where milliseconds matter.

Ping display in the order book

🧠 Smart Order Book — Fully Adaptive​

The order book in ProfitForge doesn’t just display data — it adapts to your strategy and the instrument you're trading.
All filters, ranges, and thresholds are automatically calculated from market conditions.

📊 Auto Volume Calculation​

You can enable automatic volume baseline calculation — the system will use 5-minute candles (by default 500) and calculate the baseline using median or average logic.

  • ⚙️ Thresholds like “High Volume,” “Huge Volume,” and “Fill Threshold” are all based on this value.
  • 📈 The system automatically adapts to changing volatility and liquidity.

Auto volume calculation

📐 Cluster, Tick, and Volume Configuration​

Every part of the order book — depth, trades, and clusters — can be fine-tuned:

  • Volumes: Customize thresholds for normal, large, and huge volumes.
  • Ticks: Filter visible volume, ignore micro-ticks, configure aggregation period.
  • Clusters: Define minimum volume display and aggregation interval.

You can configure everything manually or use auto presets:

Order book preset config

🌀 Dynamic Price Step​

Instead of fixed number of levels above/below the price, ProfitForge offers a dynamic price range based on percentage.

  • 🔁 For example, you’ll always see 1% up and down from the mid-price regardless of volatility.
  • 🔧 Quickly adjust on the fly with:
    • Q + Scroll — increase/decrease range
    • Q + Q — reset to default

Dynamic price range

⚡ Instant Manual Control​

If the auto-settings don't match your style — change them in seconds:

  • H + Scroll — adjust volume multiplier
  • J + Scroll — adjust volume baseline

💡 Adapt your book view to any strategy on the fly — no menus, no clicks.

Hotkeys for book tuning

ProfitForge is built so that the book works for you. You focus on trading — we handle the precision.

🧱 Cluster Trade History​

The cluster tape in ProfitForge is loaded automatically upon opening the book — you get up to 2 hours of history from the server.

  • See historical trades per level,
  • View BID/ASK imbalances and absorption,
  • Understand participant behavior near liquidity clusters.

Perfect for scalping, reading microstructure, and planning entries based on context — no need to wait for the book to "fill in" live.

📊 Get trading context instantly, right as you open the book.

⚠️ Note: On some exchanges (with limited API or poor historical support), this feature may not be available.

Cluster history preview

🧾 Order Types​

ProfitForge supports all standard and advanced order types — all accessible via mouse and keyboard shortcuts, making it perfect for scalping and fast execution.

🔹 Limit Orders​

Placed at a specific price to buy/sell with precision.

  • Left Click (LMB) — place buy order in the bid zone.
  • Right Click (RMB) — place sell order in the ask zone.
  • A / S — instant buy/sell at best bid/ask.
  • B + LMB/RMB — cascade of limit orders.

📌 Cancel single order with MMB, or all with F.

🔸 Market Orders​

Instant execution at current market price — useful for fast entries/exits.

  • D — close entire position by market.
  • R — reverse your position instantly.

🟡 Stop Orders​

Used to automate entries/exits when price reaches a certain level.

  • Stop Market — triggers a market order.
    • Y + LMB/RMB
  • Stop Limit — triggers a limit order.
    • T + LMB/RMB
  • Take Profit / Stop Loss — manually or automatically added:
    • C + LMB/RMB

🔧 Enable auto SL/TP in settings to apply protection automatically after order execution.

🧪 Custom Orders​

Exclusive order types only in ProfitForge:

  • Limit Cascade — B + LMB/RMB, create a series of orders by logic.
  • Stop on Density — Z + LMB/RMB, auto-triggers when a large wall appears.

🔥 Full hotkey list available below or in terminal settings.

Full order book hotkeys

🔖 Level Markers in the Book​

ProfitForge allows you to mark levels directly in the book for visual tracking and alerts.

Benefits:

  • Easily highlight zones of interest
  • Keep the view clean and meaningful
  • Never miss a touch or bounce from a key level

📍 Types of Markers​

  • 🟤 Basic Level — manually marked by the user.
  • 🔵 Signal Level — same as basic, but triggers a sound alert when crossed.
  • 🟠 Density Change Level — monitors change in volume on a price level.
    • Triggers alert if volume changes by more than 80% (default, customizable).
    • Great for catching spoofing, absorption, or exits by large players.

🔔 Levels can be added and removed with hotkeys (L, X, etc). Press O to clear all markers.

⚔️ Auto Stop & Take Profit​

ProfitForge allows you to automatically attach SL/TP as soon as a position is opened — no delay, no hesitation.

⚙️ How It Works​

  • Enable auto-SL/TP in terminal settings.
  • Specify distance as a % from entry price.
  • SL/TP will be created automatically after market/limit execution.

💡 Works identically for Longs and Shorts — distance is relative.

🧩 Example Config​

Auto SL/TP config example

In this example:

  • 🛑 Auto Stop Loss — off, set to 0.5%
  • 🎯 Auto Take Profit — enabled, set to 1.5%

✅ Use either or both based on your strategy.

If you're looking for a powerful, low-latency, scalper-ready order book — ProfitForge has it all built-in.
Try it and see the difference.