A real-time big-trade and order-flow-burst detector — mapped live, at the exact price it happened.
TrackTicks Big Print is a NinjaTrader 8 indicator that watches every trade print in real time and flags only the ones that actually matter — a single trade large enough to matter on its own, or a burst of same-side aggression building rapidly at one exact price.
Every trade your data feed delivers is individually classified the moment it arrives, using the standard tick rule, and checked against your own volume thresholds immediately. Nothing is sampled, batched, or estimated after the fact. When a print qualifies, a marker appears on your chart instantly, at the exact price it happened — sized, colored, and labeled with the real volume, so you're reading actual order flow, not an approximation of it.
It doesn't stop at detection. Click directly on any marker and TrackTicks Big Print anchors a live, continuously updating delta count to that exact print — replayed from real trade history, not estimated from the click forward — so you can watch whether that size is being absorbed or followed through on, in real time, while it's still relevant to a decision you're making.
This is the part that separates TrackTicks Big Print from a simple threshold alert: while it's running, every single trade print is classified and evaluated the instant it arrives — at or above the best ask counts as buyer-initiated, at or below the best bid counts as seller-initiated — with nothing grouped, delayed, or backfilled.
Single large prints and clusters of aggressive same-side volume are tracked as two entirely separate, mutually exclusive detections — a trade big enough to qualify on its own is never also folded into a cluster total, so you never see the same real event represented twice on your chart.
Detection is also unified across every chart you have open on the same instrument. Whether you're watching a 1-minute chart or a 5-minute chart, you see the exact same detected prints and the exact same live delta counts — the underlying calculation doesn't change depending on which timeframe happens to be in front of you.
Intraday and scalp traders who want to react to real order flow instead of a lagging indicator — identifying where genuine size is showing up, and whether it's being defended or run over, at the exact moment it's happening rather than after the candle closes.
Runs on NinjaTrader 8. Full accuracy requires a live data feed with Level 1 (bid/ask) data while the indicator is running and connected. This indicator detects and maps prints from the moment it is attached and running forward — it does not backfill or estimate big prints on historical bars that printed before it was running. If your feed or instrument doesn't provide Level 1 bid/ask, trades still process tick by tick using a midpoint-based classification in place of a true bid/ask comparison.
Every setting explained, plus real chart examples of TrackTicks Big Print in use.
TrackTicks Big Print is a charting and data-visualization tool. It does not generate buy or sell signals, does not predict future price movement, and is not a substitute for your own analysis, judgment, or risk management. Accuracy of the real-time bid/ask classification depends entirely on the completeness and timeliness of the data supplied by your NinjaTrader connection, data feed, and broker.
Trading futures carries a substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for everyone. See the full site disclaimer for complete terms.
