Order flow for discretionary traders

Know what's
behind the move.

You pick the setup. We show what's driving price right now, and who's exposed if it turns.

No buy signals. No price targets.
Every number carries the evidence behind it — and we publish the ones that die.

Flow Bias · BTC Example · 26 Jul 2026
Calm typical day · 9 min ago
Typical 24h range
~2.7%
3% stop risk
13%
Size vs normal
×1.36

Leverage looks normal. No crowded side and no forced flow.

−4%0+4%

Where days like today landed after 24h · ~45 independent days · through 25 Jul 2026

Underwater longs estimatedmost relevant $210M24h window
Nearest long liquidations estimatedmost relevant 1.8% below25× assumed
Funding crowding observedmost relevant crowded shorts30d window
Hidden inventory measuredmost relevant net buying $79M24h window
Last big print measuredmost relevant $158M buy · +9 bpweakest for its size
Up vs down moves measuredmost relevant down 1.45× bigger60d window

Pick a side and the readings reorder by relevance. Nothing is added, removed or reworded — the market state is the same whichever side you are on.

The gap

A good setup still fails
in the wrong market.

Nothing behind the movePrice travels, but no fresh participation arrives to carry it.
Your side is crowdedThe same trade is stacked with leverage, and it exits together.
Your stop is inside the noiseThe distance you chose is one the market covers on an ordinary day.
Forced exits overwhelm the bookLiquidations arrive faster than anyone is willing to absorb them.

You already chose the trade. The missing question is whether conditions give it room to work.

What it shows

Four reads on the same tape.

Built from individual trades rather than candles, separated by participant size, across spot and futures together.

01measured

Fuel

Is new participation still arriving, or is the move running on what's already in?

02estimated

Exposure

Where leveraged positions entered, how much is offside, and how far the nearest forced exits sit.

03measured

Response

Whether heavy buying or selling actually moves price — or gets quietly absorbed by someone taking the other side.

04measured

Historical context

The full range of what happened after comparable conditions — not a single number pretending to be a forecast.

The state machine

Forced moves have a shape.

Leverage builds, something triggers it, it cascades, then it burns out. The panel names which phase the market is in and shows the components behind the call.

Normal

No crowded side and no forced flow. Positions are spread across both directions and nothing is being pushed out of the market.

Composed from funding percentile, liquidation bursts against their own 30-day distribution, and price displacement. Each component is measured; the stage label they compose is on trial.

Before you place it

See when your usual
trade no longer fits.

Your setup
MarketBTC · long
Account$10,000
Stop distance1.2%
Risk per trade2%
64%

From comparable states, BTC moved 1.2% against longs within 24 hours in 64% of cases.

412 comparable periods measured

We don't tell you to widen it, shrink the position, or skip the trade. You know your method; you just didn't have this number before you placed it.

Our best idea died in public.

The hypothesis that looked strongest failed its first out-of-sample test. We published the result and pulled it from the product — because a court date you only honour when you win isn't a court date.

See the full record
Evidence

Every claim carries
what stands behind it.

Each hypothesis is registered before the test period arrives, with its thresholds frozen and a verdict date fixed in advance. Results are published whether they survive or not.

17hypothesis families screened
7dead, failed or contradicted
4demoted to context only
6awaiting a scheduled verdict
0claimed as validated today
measured

Arithmetic on current market data. A fact you could recompute yourself from the same feed.

observed

A pattern that repeats in our own history and has not been validated out of sample. We say so on the number itself.

on trial

Registered before the data arrived, thresholds frozen, judged on a date set in advance. It may well fail.

Next verdict: 1 October 2026 Three hypotheses judged. Three more follow at Look 2. Both outcomes get published.
Fit

Built for traders who
already have a setup.

You'll get value from this if

  • You trade your own discretionary setups and want to know whether conditions support them.
  • You use stops, leverage, or position sizes big enough that a bad day matters.
  • You want to know when your side is getting crowded.
  • You'd rather see an honest range than another confident number.

This is not a signal service

  • No buy or sell calls, and no price targets.
  • No promise that your next trade wins.
  • It does not replace your method — it describes the market that method has to work in.
  • If you want to be told what to trade, this will disappoint you on purpose.

From the maker of TradingView tools used by 30,000+ traders. Plainflow is a separate, independent product.

Pricing

One plan.

$29/ month
  • Live conditions for BTC, ETH and SOL
  • Exposure, forced-flow state and lifecycle phase
  • Historical outcome ranges and stop context
  • Direction-aware views and alerts that keep score
  • Full research record, including what failed
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Private beta. Cancel anytime.

Does it tell me when to buy or sell?

No. You choose the trade. The product shows whether current conditions support it, work against it, or say nothing useful either way. There is no entry signal in the product today, and the panel says so plainly when you open it.

What does "behind the move" actually mean?

Participation, leverage and liquidity — measured from individual trades rather than candles. Who is buying and in what size, where leveraged positions entered, how much is offside, and whether pressure is being absorbed or moving price.

Is this a liquidation heatmap?

No. Liquidation exposure is one input. The product also measures whether leverage is still building, whether forced flow has actually started, and whether the market is absorbing it — which a heatmap cannot tell you.

How strong is the evidence?

It varies by claim, which is why every number is labelled. Some are direct measurements. Some are unvalidated historical patterns. Some are registered hypotheses awaiting a verdict date. Nothing is currently claimed as validated, and the research record shows the failures alongside the survivors.

Can a beginner use it?

Yes, but it assumes you already understand entries, stops and position sizing. It describes market conditions — it does not teach you to trade.

See what's behind the move.

Plainflow is in private beta. Request an invite and we'll send your access when a seat opens — nothing else.

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