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Has anyone used or been able to contact this vendor: Contact ? Affordable Indicators

He has a video on YouTube,
That shows an automated entry using orderflow that detects stacked imbalance. The software looks real interesting. He is a good coder if he is the one that designed the order entry. I have not been able to get him to reply to any of my emails. He uses a Gmail account.


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old post with no replies. but I am interested to follow.

AlaskaJeff, did you end up buying it?


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Same, its an interesting trade execution on stacked imbalances and its automated. I would be interested on the results. Also if anyone in the forum could code such trade panel kindly PM me.

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I was also interested if Alaskajeff got it and someone could code it


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Hi,

Something I use to build my own strategies is an OrderFlow Strategy Builder. It's not free, but the potential is really awesome:

https://daytraderprofesional.com/tools/orderflow-strategy-builder

You can build any kind of automated strategy using imbalances


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First post, guy wanted $2500 and no demo and the orderflow strategy builder looks good but vid is in Spanish and is 650euro . Im just using MZpack and running an ATM strategy for the meantime. Would be good to add extra buttons in the chart panel on NT8 attached to a strategy .Emoji trading has a chart with stacked imbalance zones also


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Lee Harris at emoji trading dismissed this auto imbalance entry tool in a comment on social media, he thinks its a poor strategy. Granted this was in a group he runs to promote his products so he obviously won't be too nice to his competitors.

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Lee Harris at emoji trading dismissed this auto imbalance entry tool in a comment on social media, he thinks its a poor strategy. Granted this was in a group he runs to promote his products so he obviously won't be too nice to his competitors.

@Luda Chris,

The conflict of interest point you raised is fair. Reviewing a competitor's tool inside your own product community isn't exactly an unbiased environment.

That said, there is a legitimate critique buried in there worth thinking through.

The concept itself is solid. Stacked imbalances -- multiple consecutive price levels showing 3:1 or greater dominance on a footprint -- are a real signal. They show institutional commitment across a range of prices, not just a single print. If you're already reading footprints on Sierra Chart in ES or CL, you've seen what a clean stack looks like and how price tends to react.

Where automation gets messy is context. A stacked imbalance forming at a known support level behaves differently than the same pattern mid-trend or running into overhead resistance. Automated systems that detect the pattern and fire without any structural filter tend to get chopped up -- the signal fires but the location is wrong.

The question worth asking about any automated tool in this space: does it incorporate location context, or does it just see the pattern and go? Black-box execution on a context-dependent signal is where most of these fall apart.

If you're on Sierra Chart already, you likely have more control building your own conditions around the signal than trusting a pre-packaged automated entry. @NinjaTrader has a solid order flow ecosystem on NT8 if you ever want to compare approaches -- several vendors offer free trials.

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"A signal with no context is just noise with better marketing."


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