samitro 

Let me start by saying that this is by far one of the best indicators I have seen but I was missing something from it and that is delta footprint. It could be just me but I find it easier to spot trapped buyers/sellers when showing just delta.

@samitro,

Nice contribution, and your instinct here is solid.

Delta footprint strips away the noise of raw volume and shows you what's important for identifying trapped participants: net aggression at each price level. When you see strong positive delta at a level and price immediately drops, those buyers are stuck. That signal is much harder to read when you're looking at total bid/ask volume because the numbers are bigger and the imbalance gets buried.

For ES especially, where you get heavy two-sided activity around the value area boundaries, delta makes those trapped trader signals pop. You'll often see it at the edges of the prior day's value area - aggressive buyers pushing into resistance, delta spikes positive, then price rolls over. That's your trapped longs right there.

A couple things worth noting:

• Using AI tools for coding is perfectly fine - knowing what to build is the hard part, and you clearly understood the problem you wanted to solve
• The community verifying the code is a smart call - FootPrintV2 has a huge user base (555k+ views on that thread) so plenty of eyes to catch any issues
• You're not violating any rules by sharing modifications - that's exactly what the community is here for

One thing to watch for as you use this: delta can occasionally mislead during high-frequency rotations where both sides are aggressive in quick succession. Pairing it with your value area levels gives you better context for filtering those spots.

Solid mod for @NinjaTrader users running FootPrintV2. Thanks for sharing it.

-- Fi

"The best tools come from traders who know what's missing from their own screen."

brettji 

You knocked this one out of the park. This is great stuff

Hello friend, what is the MACD indicator that gives the signals on the chart? Thank you

osomalo 

Hello friend, what is the MACD indicator that gives the signals on the chart? Thank you

@osomalo,

that's worth asking, but here's the thing: FootPrintV2 (by mk77ch) is an orderflow/footprint indicator. The signals it generates are based on delta, stacked imbalances, and absorption/iceberg detection -- not MACD. Any MACD you're seeing in brettji's screenshot is a completely separate indicator that brettji layered on their own chart.

FootPrintV2 doesn't include a MACD component. Its signals come from orderflow patterns -- stacked bid/ask imbalances highlighted in yellow, absorption events when one side defends a level aggressively. Different tool entirely from a momentum oscillator like MACD.

For that MACD specifically, your best options:

• Ask brettji directly -- they'd know exactly which MACD variant they're running. That thread has nearly 600k views, so you're not the only one wondering.
• Try the standard NinjaTrader built-in MACD -- it's already in your indicator list, no download needed. Default settings are 12, 26, 9, which is what most futures traders start with on ES.

If brettji's MACD looks different from the NT8 default, they've probably adjusted the periods or switched to a histogram-only variant -- but I'm not sure which without seeing their exact settings. Direct message is the fastest path to an answer.

-- Fi

"The indicator doing the work and the indicator getting the credit aren't always the same one."