Guides

Order-flow guides for NQ traders

Plain-English guides to the ideas behind Mercury Flow, with what our own testing found, including the parts that don't work as advertised.

Order flow

What is absorption in order flow? How to read it on NQ

Heavy aggressive trading that fails to move price: how to spot it, and why it's a reason to watch, not to enter.

Market Profile

Market Profile basics for NQ

Initial balance, poor highs, single prints and profile shapes, with 16 years of data on which ideas hold up.

Footprint

Large orders on the NQ footprint

What big-order bubbles tell you, what they don't, and the one question that makes them useful.